Eye Irascible
General Info
Year: 1999
Duration: c. 10:00
Difficulty: (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Alan, C.
Cost: Score and Parts - $0.00 | Score Only - $0.00
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Instrumentation
Player I - VIII:
Program Notes
(third prize winnner 1999 Percussive Arts Society composition contest)
Review
This percussion octet, which earned third-place honors in the 1999 PAS Composition Contest, exhibits a wide range of emotions and sonorities, from subtle vocal and instrumental timbres that pervade the middle section of the piece to dramatic drumming patterns that rely on volume, shifting accents, and mixed meters for their visceral impact. The ensemble, which requires a large but conventional instrumentation, should earn a place in the college ensemble repertoire. With its obvious references to non-Western idioms, such as the finale’s allusion to Japanese drum music complete with vocalizations, it is sure to strike a responsive chord in listeners. - John R. Raush[1]
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A Delivering - Timpani
Aware of Discussion - Percussion Octet
Collinear Dancer - Multiple Percussion
Declarative Stances - Percussion Octet
Duality Intrinsic - Marimba, Piano
Elegy for Alpha - Marimba
Eye Irascible - Percussion Octet
Goodbye and Go Begin - Percussion Octet
Re-Entry - Multiple Percussion
Sonic Adventures - Percussion Quartet / Percussion Quintet / Percussion Sextet
Spanesque Oscilliations - Percussion Quartet
Vortices for Drum Set and Percussion Sex(y)tet - Drumset; Percussion Sextet
Weather Movement I: Springwind - Percussion Octet
Weather Movement II: Storm Warning and Dance - Percussion Octet
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