SKU: HL.14041798
ISBN 9788759818077. 12.5x16.5x1.13 inches.
Set of parts for Per Nørgård's En Lys Time / A Light Hour (2008-09) for a variable Percussion Ensemble (min. 10 players).
In A Light Hour everything - rhythms and motifs – is based on Nørgård´s special infinity series.
Score: WH30964
Programme note
A Light Hour is for ‘any number of percussion musicians’ (but a minimum of ten). The duration is about 60 minutes. The instrumentation is in principle open, as long as percussion is used within the three types specified in the score: skin, metal and wood. Each musicianuses two sound sources with two different sounds, one of which is bright (or light) and the other dark. Certain passages also include tuned percussion instruments – vibraphone, xylophone, marimba, gamelan, glockenspiel, steel drums, crotales and the like. The work integrates and combines a number of rhythms that Nørgård has used in percussion works since the 1970s, for example in Early Spring Dance (for choir and percussion), and percussion works like I Ching, Easy Beats, Whirls, Zigzag, Nemo Dynamo and Echo Zone I-II-III. Special “tone-feasts” (the composer’s term) – followed by a rest – are an recognizable melodic feature of the work.: the first minute end with a short tone-feast (and a rest), the first four minutes end with a tone-feast lasting a minute (and a rest), the first quarter of an hour ends with a tone-feast of four minutes (and a rest) – and the work ends with a tone-feast lasting quarter of an hour (and a rest, when the work is over ...). The first 15 minutes have a bright, light character throughout, and alternate between rhythms and melodic play. The following 15 minutes are more insistent and decidedly percussion-based, Afro-Cuban, whereas the third quarter of A Light Hour moves in the.
SKU: BT.MUSM570204472
English.
Published 1973. Commissioned by Tokyo Percussion Ensemble. First performance: Tokyo, 1973, Tokyo Percussion Ensemble.
SKU: BT.WH31279
ISBN 9788759821947. English.
For two Percussion soloists and ten instruments. Commissioned by and dedicated to Safri Duo. A Concerto in three movements based on Preludes by J.S. Bach, for Percussion Duo and Orchestra. Reduced version, 2010, by Steve Ferre, approved by the composer for Percussion Duo (unchanged) and ten instruments (5 woodwind, 5 strings) 1 Flute dbl. Piccolo and Alto Flute in G 1 Oboe dbl. Cor Anglaid in FY 1 Clarinet in Bb dbl. Bass Clarinet in Bb 1 Bassoon 1 Horn in F 1 Violin 1 1 Violin 2 1 Viola 1 Cello 1 Double Bass The score is written in C.
