Percussion Ensemble
SKU: HL.14041798
A Light Hour 2008.
Composed by Per Norgard.
Music Sales America.
Classical. Set. Composed
2013. Edition Wilhelm
Hansen #WH30964A.
Published by Edition
Wilhelm Hansen
(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&acut
e;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
me
lodic 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
percu
ssion-based, Afro-Cuban,
whereas the third quarter
of A Light Hour moves in
the.
