In Your Shoes

Paul Fowler

General Info

Year: 2013
Duration: c. 10:00
Difficulty: (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: 6 Line Music
Cost: Score and Parts - $0.00   |   Score Only - $0.00

Instrumentation

Player I - X:
5 suspended cymbals
1 sizzle cymbal
4 small gongs (for “cymbal tree”)
2 small clash cymbals
1 opera gong
2 tam-tams (1 onstage, 1 offstage)

1 surdo (a large Brazilian bass drum)
1 low drum (concert bass drum, tanggu)
5 temple blocks
2 bongos
tabla
cajon

crotales (1 set - or 1 set plus F# and A#)
vibraphone
glockenspiel (with top of case for “tip jar”)
hand pan drum (B C# D E F# A B)
5 octave marimba
3 timpani (pedal: 30”, 25”, 23”)

shaker
castanets
finger cymbals
whistle
assorted hand percussion (performers choice)

Program Notes

"In Your Shoes” was inspired one afternoon spent wandering around Pearl Street in Boulder, Colorado with my wife and son (a few blocks from where I live). Pearl Street – similar to London’s Covent Garden, the New York City subway, Italy’s Piazza Navona, or Paris’s Montmartre – is an outdoor walking mall that features excellent street performers; especially during summer. Naturally, there is a lot of foot traffic and I noticed the wealth of expression in everyone’s style of movement and the sound of their feet. “In Your Shoes” explores that inherent musical nature of people walking about with a backdrop of street performers.

The piece is organized around 3 characters, each with their own walk: Boots, Heels, and Slippers. “Boots” is rigid, powerful, warring – the masculine element. “Heels” is fluid, mysterious, dancing – the feminine element. “Slippers” intuitive, receptive, curious – the child element

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Works for Percussion by this Composer

Balal - Percussion Quartet
Benzi: Chaplin - Percussion Octet; Video Playback
for Peace - Marimba
In Your Shoes - Percussion Ensemble (10)
Michiyuki - Marimba
Three Meditations - Marimba; Voice