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Composer: David Heuser
Instrumentation: Percussion Ensemble (12 players) [see below]
Year Composed: 2006
Duration: 10 minutes
Pages (score): 65
Cost: Purchase: $80.00
Premiere:Moorse School Percussion Ensemble at the University of Houston, Dr. Blake M. Wilkens, director at PASIC 2006, Austin, Texas (November 2006)
Percussion 1: marimba (extended to E2),
1 tomtom
Percussion 2: marimba (4.3 octave to low A),
1 tomtom
Percussion 3: marimba (4.3 octave to low A),
1 tomtom
Percussion 4: marimba (4.3 octave to low A),
1 tomtom
Percussion 5: bass marimba,
1 tomtom
Percussion 6: vibraphone
Percussion 7: vibraphone
Percussion 8: xylophone, glockenspiel, triangle, suspended cymbal, snare drum
claves, cowbell
Percussion 9: crotales (2 octave set) [bass bow required], glockenspiel,
snare drum,
2 timbales,
guiro
Percussion 10: 2 tomtoms,
2 log drums (any 4 pitches),
sandpaper blocks,
5 temple blocks,
tambourine,
flexitone,
two almglocken (C4 and Eb4, or any C and Eb)
Percussion 11: tamtam [bass bow required],
2 tomtoms,
bass drum,
egg-shaped shaker,
finger cymbals,
cabasa,
two almglocken (Bb3 and D4, or any Bb and D)
Percussion 12: 4 timpani (23”, 25”, 28”, 32”),
maracas,
woodblock,
slapstick,
slide whistle
Not here, but there was Commissioned by the Moorse School Percussion Ensemble at the University of Houston, Dr. Blake M. Wilkens, director