Metamorphosis
General Info
Year of Published: 2021
Publisher: Dutch Music Partners
Instrumentation
Solo
Ensemble
Player 1: Glockenspiel
Player 2: Vibraphone
Player 3: Xylophone 1
Player 4: Xylophone 2
Player 5: Marimba 1
Player 6: Marimba 2
Player 7: Marimba & Chimes & Suspended Cymbal & Guiro & Tambourine & Maracas & Turkish Crescent
Player 8: Bongos & Almglocken & Triangle & Suspended Cymbal & Wind Chimes (Wood)
Player 9: Crotales & Congas & Wood Block & Sleigh Bells
Player 10: Tenor Drum & Temple Blocks & Suspended Cymbal & Triangle & Kick Drum & Train Horn
Player 11: Snare Drum & Side Drum & 2 Wood Blocks & Whip & Siren Whistle
Player 12: 4 Tom Toms & 2 Cowbells & Djembe & Chain
Player 13: Side Drum & Tom Tom (Low) & Brake Drum & Rattle & Maracas & Sleighbells & Whistle & Beatring
Player 14: Snare Drum & Shakers & Cowbell
Player 15: Hand Cymbals & Djembe & Hi Hat & Cymbal (Small) & Claves & Wind Chimes (Wood) & 2 Javanese Gongs & Chinese Hand Cymbals
Player 16: Bass Drum & China Cymbal & Tam Tam & Claves & Car Horn
Description
This composition consists of avant-garde and classical parts that merge nicely into each other, a part in the pentatonic scale and a fragment from Ludwig von Beethoven’s ‘Ode an die Freude’. After all, it was 250 years ago that Beethoven was born. The last part is with surprising effects as we know from a fair.
By having the glockenspiel, vibraphone, xylophone, marimba and cymbal antique play together, a beautiful harmony is created. In the avant-garde fragments we hear them in surprising interrupted rhythms, many intervals and antimetric figures, of which not the melody and harmony, but timbre and rhythm are the most important pillars, thus creating beautiful sound patterns and surprising effects, sometimes together with various other percussion instruments.
In addition to the well-known melodic and non-melodic percussion instruments, we hear 2 Javanese gongs, a metal chain, car horns, siren whistle, train horn, 2 brake drums and – if possible – the Turkish crescent.
Metamophosis is dedicated to the Greek percussionist Katerina Koskinas.
Works for Percussion by this Comopser
Large Ensemble
The Bells (Mourik) - Percussion 15
Metamorphosis - Timpani; Percussion 16
Mallet Ensemble
Lockdown - Mallet Sextet
With Other Instruments
Bon bini Festival - Percussion 19; Flute
Dreams - Percussion 16; Harp; Accordion; Choir
Dreams to Remember - Percussion 14; Harp; Accordion; Choir
Fantasy Dream - Percussion 18; Harp; Accordion
Messy Dream - Percussion 18; Harp; Accordion
Strange Dream - Percussion 17; Accordion