Two Designs
General Info
Year of Published:
Publisher: C. Alan Publications
Instrumentation
Player 1: Xylophone & Tambourine & Triangle & Wind Chimes
Player 2: Chimes & Bass Drum
Player 3: Bongos & Suspended Cymbal & Mark Tree & Temple Blocks & Claves & Brake Drum & Gong
Player 4: 4 Concert Tom-toms & Gong & Snare Drum
Player 5: Vibraphone & Field Drum
Player 6: Snare Drum & Cowbell & Marimba
Player 7: 4 Timpani & Suspended Cymbal
Program Notes
Two Designs is a percussion septet composed by Mario Gaetano. Highly dramatic with dynamic ups and downs along with passages of layered rhythms that culminate in explosions of sound.
Recent Performance
Works for Percussion by this Composer
Marimba
Fantasy for El Salvador
Prelude No.1
Two Movements for Marimba
Multiple Percussion
Multiple Episode No. 1
Multiple Episode No. 2
Multiple Episode No. 3
Sonatina per Batteria
Sonatina per Batteria No. 2
Snare Drum
Vibraphone
Ensemble
Action/Reaction - Percussion Sextet
Circles (Gaetano) - Marimba; Percussion Duo
Four Studies for Young Percussion Ensemble - Percussion Quartet
Junk Funk - Percussion Quintet
Mosaic, Op. 30 - Percussion Octet
Overture for Percussion Ensemble (Gaetano) - Percussion Nonet
Shanghai - Percussion Ensemble
Scenes from Earth - Percussion Septet; Piano
Two Designs - Percussion Septet
Undercurrents (Gaetano) - Percussion Septet
Flexible Instrumentation
With Other Instruments
State of the Art - Multiple Percussion; Clarinet
The Weather of Six Mornings - Percussion Quartet; Voice; Flute
Three Inventions for Flute and Percussion - Multiple Percussion; Flute