Threads

Paul Lansky

General Info

Year: 2005
Duration: c.
Difficulty: (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Carl Fischer
Cost: Score and Parts - $90.00   |   Score Only - $0.00

Instrumentation

Player 1: Vibraphone & Timbales & Doumbeck & Crotales & Temple Blocks
Player 2: Vibraphone & Noise-Makers & Tom Toms (Low)
Player 3: Glockenspiel & Cowbell & Agogos & Claves & Bongos & Congas & 4 Un-Tuned Bottles
Player 4: Metal Pipes & Flowerpots & Tom Toms (High)

Program Notes

Threads, written by Paul Lansky for So Percussion in 2005, is a 'cantata' for percussion quartet in ten short movements. There are three 'threads' that are interwoven in the piece: Arias and Preludes that focus on the metallic pitched sounds; Choruses in which drumming predominates; and Recitatives made largely from Cage-like 'noise' instruments. The aims of the different threads are to highlight the wide range of qualitities that percussion instruments are capable of, from lyrical and tender to forceful and aggressive, and weave them into one continuous texture.

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Works for Percussion by this Composer

Hop - Marimba; Violin
Idle Fancies - Marimba with Small Percussion Set
Pandemonium - Steel Drum
Threads - Percussion Quartet
Three Moves for Marimba - Marimba
Travel Diary - Percussion Duo