Bright Light Dark Shadows
General Info
Year of Publication: 2016
Publisher: C. Alan
Difficulty: Intermediate to Advanced
Duration: 00:11:25
Cost: $60.00
Instrumentation
Player 1: glockenspiel, tam-tam, tambourine, crash cymbals
Player 2: crotales, chimes
Player 3: vibraphone & suspended cymbal
Player 4: vibraphone & suspended cymbal
Player 5: 4.3-octave marimba & triangle
Player 6: 4.3-octave marimba & triangle
Player 7: 4.6-octave marimba & triangle & large crash cymbal
Player 8: 5-octave marimba & triangle & medium crash cymbal
Player 9: electric guitar with fixed tuning laid flat, concert bass drum, drum set, brake drum, medium woodblock, mounted sleigh bells
Description
Bright Light - Dark Shadows by Caleb Pickering is a work for 9 percussionists influenced by a poem by Charles Bukowski called "We Must." This exciting work explores light and darkness with a variety of textures and tonalities.
Recent Performance
James Madison University Percussion Ensemble
Works for Percussion by this Composer
Snare Drum Solo Works
An Assembly of Outrage - Snare Drum
Heavy Binary - Snare Drum
Non-Prophets - Snare Drum
Multiple Percussion Solo Works
Marimba Solo Works
Currents (Pickering)
Drift
Etude in A Minor (Pickering)
Etude in D Minor (Pickering)
Glide
Malice
Paradigm (Pickering)
Prelude in C Major (Pickering)
Rhapsody Bacchanale
Vibraphone Solo Works
Expanse & Retrospect
Grimoire
Secondhand
Unlove
Solo with Ensemble
Berserker - Marimba; Percussion Quintet
Keyboard Percussion Ensemble
Bloodworks - Marimba Trio
Pop-Psyche - Marimba Quartet
Powder Keg - Mallet Quartet
Psychopomp - Marimba Quartet
Technobabble - Mallet Duo
Percussion Ensemble
21 Grams - Percussion 10
Beneath - Percussion Nonet
Bright Light - Dark Shadows - Percussion Nonet
Carve into me what you call love - Percussion Nonet
Dreadnought - Percussion 11
Electro-Phantasm - Percussion sextet
Post-Sunrise - Percussion Quintet
Suadela - Percussion Sextet