Percussion
Sassy Waitress on the Caribbean Cruise, The
By Gina Ismene Chitty
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For celesta, bongo drums, piano and two marimbas, c.4'00
A lively young nineteen year-old waitress on a cruise ship loads an excessive number of glasses on her tray and tries hard to hold the tray in a steady position while the boat rocks and rolls gently. She moves rhythmically to the music in the cocktail bar, dressed in a short red dress, fancy high heeled boots and a scarlet cap.
A select few young men are trying out dance moves and the young waitress becomes distracted. She yearns to join this high-energy group in their fun. But this is her first job, so she decides, rather ruefully, not to join in the fun and risk getting fired.
Composed 2020
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ISMN 97907202494391
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Sense and Insouciance
By Gina Ismene Chitty
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For piano, sleight bells, marimba, cymbals and drums, c.3'35
The constrictions on a teenage girl’s romantic sensibilities make her somewhat frazzled and irritable during the Covid-19 lockdown - but then she decides to deal with the deprivation with wisdom and prudence, striving to be sensible under the imposed circumstances. She raids her family library and does what is practical and somewhat functional, in choosing to settle down to Jane Austen’s famous book “Sense and Sensibility”.
The quirky and nonchalant music - fragmented melodies logically bound together but seemingly somewhat in limbo, captures her mood and pleases her sensibilities.
Composed 2020
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ISMN 97907202494414
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Skittish in Lockdown
By Gina Ismene Chitty
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For marimba, drum set and piano, c.2'00
This piece captures the slight impatience of an adolescent in lockdown. It expresses an inwardly energetic “shout”, a simultaneous feeling of joy and annoyance, and a breaking into a dance-like trot to release the excess energy that has been building up in the young person.
The lilting jazz rhythms of the marimba and piano reflect the joy of missing school, and the strictly assertive and sparse drum-beat is reflective of a slightly annoyance at the limited scope of movement.
Composed 2020
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ISMN 9790720227818
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Smoke and Mirrors
By Diana Blom
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Tenor saxophone and marimba. 2 scores.
Through music, the title of Smoke and Mirrors has been drawn on fairly literally, rather than metaphorically, with the slow movement of smoke in circles and coils but always upward, and the repetitive eternal image created by two mirrors facing each other.Composed 2015
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Sonata No 1 - Nature and Fibonacci
By Yvonne Barton-leach
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Sounding Bashō
By Michael Hannan
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For Trumpet in C, percussion and Japanese Calligrapher.
Sounding Bashō is based on seven haiku by Matsuo Bashō, one for each of its seven movements.
Throughout the performance the Japanese calligrapher paints the texts and/or illustrates the imagery contained in each haiku, however, this work can be performed without a calligrapher.
Composed 2018.
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ISMN 979072031495
Star Cycle (vibraphone)
By Michael Hannan
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Solo Vibraphone, c.6'10
The piece is influenced by Indonesian gamelan music. There is constant series of repeated patterns (or ostinati) upon which melodic components are grafted as well as punctuating lower-pitched elements. Throughout the piece the vibraphonist plays alternating tones using only two beaters. The challenge is to integrate the ostinati, melody and punctuating tones within that limitation.
Composed 2017
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Steel Wheels
By Linda Dalgliesh
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Trio for Percussion c.1'20
A delicate but confident march, lead by the Glockenspiel, propelled by the martial insistence of the Snare Drum with moral support and encouragement offered by an enthusiastic Tambourine.
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ISMN 9790720249001
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Steel Wheels
By Linda Dalgliesh
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ta-ka-tin-go-ba-kin
By Michael Atherton
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ta-ka-tin-go-ba-kin is presented in four percussion staves for non-pitched percussion, c.8-10 mins
Flexibility in the choice of instruments is encouraged. However, the fourth stave provides an important time-line function. Ideally, a double cowbell (gankokwe) should provide an anchor throughout epecially in the soloing sections. The "open" scoring encourages the choice of a variety of membranophones using paired sticks, stick and hand, or hands (sogo, kaganu, djembe, congas, bongos, bodhran, darabuka, gaval, bendir, changgo, davul, surdo and cuica); and idiophones such as shakers and rattles.
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Tallebudjera
By Linda Dalgliesh
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This piece is a distillation of my fishing, swimming, and birdwatching activities around Tallebudgera Creek [sic] on Queensland's Gold Coast. The creek mouth was all sandbars and flathead holes, dolphins and pelicans. The marimba represents water; the waves, tidal ebb and flow. The woodwinds represent the birds and fish. There are interweaving motifs describing the movement of the animals.
Composed 2017
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ISMN 9790720172248
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Three Rumi Settings
By Larry Sitsky
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Text from alāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, more popularly known simply as Rumi, was a 13th-century Persian poet, Hanafi faqih, Islamic scholar, Maturidi theologian, and Sufi mystic originally from Greater Khorasan in Greater Iran.
Composed 2000
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