1up
General Info
Year of Published: 2023
Publisher: Bachovich Music Publications
Difficulty: Intermediate
Duration: 00:03:30
Cost: $25.00
Instrumentation
Player 1: Tambourine
Player 2: Tambourine
Player 3: Castanets & 2 Wood Blocks
Description
The genesis for this piece was a request from two of my students after they had attended PASIC for the first time. They had each purchased a tambourine and wanted to learn how to better play the instrument. I began writing a piece that would use many of the basic sounds possible on a tambourine and, as I am a person who loves stories, I came up with the idea of a playful competition between the two tambourine performers, each trying to "1 up" the other. Every game needs rules, and thus I came up with the idea of the third performer, a referee to keep the competition friendly. The piece is written for the sounds of the wonderful instruments my students and I purchased at that PASIC.
Works for Percussion by this Composer
Solo
Life (Volume 1) - Snare Drum
Ensemble
1up - Percussion Trio
Musica Terrae - Percussion Ensemble Variable
Power Outage - Percussion Sextet