Recitative and Scherzo
General Info
Copyright: 2007
Publisher: C. Alan Publications
Cost: $57.00
Instrumentation
Solo
Timpani (5 drums)
Ensemble
Player 1: large Maracas & Xylophone & Snare Drum & Temple Blocks & Crotales & Guiro & Mark Tree
Player 2: Glockenspiel & Claves
Player 3: Xylophone & Vibraphone & Cowbell
Player 4: Chimes & Tam Tam & Vibraslap
Player 5: Bass Drum & Suspended Cymbal & Marimba
Program Notes
Recitative and Scherzo was commissioned and premiered by Ronald Horner with the Percussion Ensemble of Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Gary Olmstead conducting, on November 17, 1998. The music begins with a short solo recitative and continues with dialogue between the solo timpani and the ensemble. A rhythmic fragment containing five beats is introduced. The tension between three beats and two beats is evident throughout the Recitative. The timpani resolve some of this tension in two descending chromatic statements, which are reversed in the opening Scherzo. The Scherzo is dance-like, now moving from pulses of five to six, and reminiscent of music by Franz Liszt, who was a strong supporter of percussion instruments in their own right as musical instruments. Recitative and Scherzo is a celebration of that view.
Works for Percussion by this Composer
Alleluia - Timpani; Organ
Antiphonies for Two Percussion Quartets - Percussion Octet
Beachwalk - Percussion Quintet
Canticle - Timpani
Choirs - Multiple Percussion
Circus - Percussion Quintet
Closing Piece - Percussion Quintet
Concertino (Leonard) - Timpani
Concertino (Leonard) - Percussion Septet; Timpani Solo
Contemporary Album for the Snare Drum - Snare Drum
Contemporary Album for the Snare Drum - Percussion Duo
Continuum - Percussion Duo
Cycle for Percussion - Percussion Quartet
Dance Suite (Leonard) - Percussion Quartet
Doubles (Leonard) - Timpani
Drum Tune - Percussion Quartet
Duales - Percussion Duo
Duet No. 1 for Two Timpanists - Percussion Duo
Duet No. 2 for Two Timpanists - Percussion Duo
Duetto Concertino - Percussion Solo; French Horn
Duo for Two Timpanists - Percussion Duo
Echoes of Eight - Timpani
Echoes of Nine - Timpani
Echoes of Seven - Timpani
Epigram - Timpani
Evolutions - Percussion Nonet
Ex Machina - Percussion Octet
Fanfare and Allegro for Timpani and Trumpet - Timpani; Trumpet
Fanfare, Meditation, and Dance - Percussion Octet
Fantasia on Luther's Hymn - Timpani; Organ
Forms - Timpani
Four Images - Percussion Sextet
Genesis - Percussion Quintet
Good Christian Men Rejoice - Percussion (10); Handbell Choir
House music for Percussion - Percussion Quartet
Hurricane - Percussion (14)
Impressions - Percussion Trio
Incidental Music - Percussion Quintet
Janissary Band - Percussion (14)
Madras - Timpani
March and Scherzo for Unaccompanied Kettledrums - Timpani
March for Percussion (Leonard) - Percussion Sextet
Marche - Percussion Sextet
Mirrors - Percussion Sextet
On That Day - Multiple Percussion; Organ
Prelude for Four Marimbas - Percussion Duo
Processional (Leonard) - Percussion Quintet
Promenade - Percussion Quartet
Quarimba - Percussion Sextet
Recitative and Scherzo - Percussion Septet
Recitative and Scherzo - Timpani; Percussion Ensemble
Rise Up O Flame - Percussion Sextet
Sacred Stones - Percussion Septet
Scherzo (Leonard) - Percussion Octet
Serenade (Leonard) - Percussion Quintet
Six Bagatelles - Percussion Octet
Skies - Percussion (10)
Solo Dialogue - Multiple Percussion
Solus - Timpani
Sonnet - Multiple Percussion; Tape
Symphony for Percussion (Leonard) - Percussion Nonet
Telin-ting - Percussion Quartet
Tenere - Percussion Quartet
The Advancing Gong - Percussion Quintet; Tape
The Bells (Leonard) - Percussion Septet
The Earth, Wind, and Fire - Percussion Octet
Three Sketches - Percussion Quartet; Trumpet
Three Spaces - Percussion Trio
Traveling Music (Leonard) - Percussion (10)
Trioso - Percussion Trio
Triptych (Leonard) - Multiple Percussion; Chamber Ensemble
Two Contemporary Scenes - Percussion Trio
Two Meditations - Multiple Percussion
Ubique - Multiple Percussion
Waltz - Percussion Sextet
Winged Chariot - Percussion Quintet
Winter Fantasy - Percussion (10); Handbell Choir
Word Games II - Percussion Quintet
Xylem - Percussion Nonet