…almost like hail…

John MacCallum

General Info

Year: 2007
Duration: c. 18:43
Difficulty: (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Manuscript
Cost: Score and Parts - Download Here   |   Score Only - $0.00

Instrumentation

Multiple Percussion: Bass drum, Kick drum, 2 wooden boxes (about 12" cubes), 2 toms tuned all the way down, 6 bending gongs (4 stacked in pairs of 2) placed on a foam table, 2 cymbals on a foam table, Vibraphone with motor and rubber mutes placed certain pitches, 5 metal pipes (such as lengths of chain-link fence posts, or pipes used for plumbing. They should have a complex timbre similar to brake drums.), 5 hardwood planks, 5 temple blocks

Electronics - Computer

Program Notes

…he had probably fallen there during the darkest hours of the night. The night of a great snowstorm, in which flakes as sharp as blades fell, almost like hail, driven by a furious south wind. Soaked by that snow, which had first melted and then frozen into shards of ice, the body had been discovered at the foot of a sheer drop, torn by the rocks it had struck on the way down. —Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

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Works for Percussion by this Composer

…almost like hail… - Multiple Percussion; Electronics
Aberration - Percussion Trio; Electronics
Blankness - Vibraphone; Viola; Electronics