Fanfare for Tambourines

John Alfieri

General Info

Year of Published: 1989
Publisher: Colla Voce Music
Difficulty: Intermediate
Duration: 00:04:00
Cost: Score and Parts - $13.00   |   Score Only - $0.00

Instrumentation

Player 1: Tambourine
Player 2: Tambourine
Player 3: Tambourine
Player 4: Tambourine and Medium Tom-tom
Player 5: Tambourine and Low Tom-tom
Player 6: Tambourine and Concert Bass Drum

Program Notes

Fanfare for Tambourines by John Alfieri is the perfect showcase of tambourine extended techniques. This percussion ensemble features six players all with tambourines playing shake rolls, finger rolls, knee/fist technique, and playing on the tambourines with sticks while they sit on a Tom or bass drum.

Works for Percussion by this Composer

Fanfare for Tambourines - Percussion Sextet
From Darkness Comes Light - Marimba
Improvisation on Agbekor - Percussion Sextet
Legend of the Sleeping Bear - Percussion Sextet
Peregrinations - Multiple Percussion
Reaching - Marimba