CrissCross
General Info
Publisher: Dutch Music Partners
Difficulty: Advanced
Duration: 00:20:00
Cost: €248.50
Instrumentation
Mallets
Glockenspiel
2 Xylophone
Vibraphone
2 Marimba
Chimes
Desk Bell
Drums
Timpani
Snare Drum
Bass Drum
2 set of Tom Toms
Bongos
Congas
Timbales
Field Drums (High & Low)
Cymbals
Auxiliary Percussion
Temple Blocks
Claves
Cowbell
15 Tin Cans
Gravel
Program Notes
Unexpected bangs and colours, African grooves, Minimal Music, surprising instruments and cross rhythms are the ingredients of CrissCross. Cross rhythms are rhythms that suggest a different time from the present one. The result is polyrythm and rhythmic pattens shift, casuing the beat to be undermined and even replaced by another. If you don't know what you are hearing, you hear it properly.
Notes for the conductor
Hearing and seeing is the motto of CrissCross, and movements without sounds play an important role. Not only the players change places, but also the playing beside the can, the emptying of an already empty bucket and the silent tutticrash near the end. Furthermore the players who have a motive which fades out, continue with the movement before fading this out too, depending on the amount of time they need to move to the next instrument.