Toccata für Schlagzeugquartet
General Info
Year: 1984
Duration: c. 4:00
Difficulty: (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Zimmermann
Cost: Score and Parts - $0.00 | Score Only - $0.00
Movements
Instrumentation
Player I: Snare drum, bongos, temple blocks(5), gong, triangle
Player II: Field drum, congas(2), wood blocks(4), tam tam, suspended cymbal
Player III: Xylophone, timbales, crotales, wood blocks(2), cymbals a2
Player IV: Tubular chimes, bass drum, frame drums(4), guiro, suspended cymbal
Program Notes
premiere: 6 May 1985, Wnrzburg, Germany, Bernd Kremling, director
Online Review
This 4:30 quartet is scored for four multipercussion setups (all standard instruments except for four framedrums). Except for a few measures, the piece is written in 7/8 or 7/16 throughout (eighth note 200), using both unison rhythms with contrasting accents and solo plus accompaniment writing. Although a conductor would certainly help in the preparation for a performance, only a score and 3 parts are provided - player IV is to play from the score. The parts are not technically very difficult (especially the two keyboard percussion parts), but the learning of the notation for the instruments, implements, and special performance techniques would take some time and concentration even though they are logical. Perhaps more suitable as a teaching piece for unconducted ensemble playing in an odd meter than as a pan of a formal concert. - John Baldwin, February, 1992 [1]
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Works for Percussion by this Composer
Toccata für Schlagzeugquartet - Percussion Quartet
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