Timbre Variations
General Info
Publisher: Meredith Music
Difficulty: Intermediate
ISBN: 978-1-5746-3184-5
Cost: $6.97
Instrumentation
Player 1: Glockenspiel & Triangle & Sleigh Bells & Tambourine
Player 2: Xylophone & Wood block & Guiro & Tom-Tom
Player 3: Snare Drum & Xylophone & Cowbell & Maracas
Player 4: Hand Cymbals & Suspended Cymbal & Slapstick & Bass Drum
Player 5: Timpani & Bass Drum & Claves & Sandpaper Blocks
Description
Timbre Variations by Robert C. Snider is an exploration of the different sounds of the percussion family. Groups of instruments include: tuned idiophones (keyboard percussion), struck indefinite pitch (triangle, wood block), shaken or scraped idiophones (maracas, sand blocks), and membranophones (timpani, tom toms). The variations are set up by instrument sounds, while the basic form and rhythm remain constant in each variation.