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Piece percussionique no. 6, Requiem for percussion quartet
RSN:
60776
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Composition Date:
2008
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Revision Date:
N/A
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Duration:
00:07:30
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Call Number
MI 7110 H824pi6
Genre
Percussion Solo / Small Ensemble
Material Type
Print-music
Acquisition Date
2009-05-05
Library Collection Publisher / Label
Unpublished, printed by CMC / Inédit, imprimé par le CMC
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4 Percussion: 1. Glockenspiel, Marimba, Tam Tam 2. Vibraphone, Xylophone, Bass Drum 3. Rain Stick, Cabasa/Afuché, Glass Chimes, Sea Shell Chimes, Herden-glocke (as in Mahler Symphonies VI and VII), Large Wood or Bamboo Chimes, Güiro, Low and High Tin Chimes1, Triangle 4. Rain Stick, Mark Tree, Sleigh Bells, Maracas, Tambourine (jingles only), Small Wood or Bamboo Chimes, Medium Tin Chimes1, Fnurdl2, Triangle Note 1: Tin chimes are home-made percussion instruments made from tin cans. The cans are suspended with string from a square wooden frame and optional cross-piece. This frame is then suspended allowing the cans to rattle when struck or shaken. At least eight cans should be used for each set. Large (T1) = 48 oz. fruit juice cans Medium (T2) = 12 oz. soda pop or soup cans Small (T3) = 4 oz. tomato paste or small fruit concentrate cans Note 2: A fnurdl is a home-made percussion instrument consisting of several strips of metal construction strapping with one end nailed into a 2×2 or 4×4 board of about one foot in length. Each metal strip should be at least four feet in length. The board is then suspended allowing the metal strips to rattle when struck or shaken.
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Physical Description
Found 2 record(s)
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Extent of Item
1 score (19 p.) ; 28 cm.
4 parts ((12) p.) ;
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Instrument
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31885
Percussion
Percussion
4
Divided
No
Solo
No
Piece Percussionique No. 6 is the sixth and last in my series of percussion ensemble works. The subtitle Requiem explains the music played by the mallet percussion duo. Since I am considering this work (at this point in time) as my final composition, I felt that this subtitle was quite appropriate. It is a Requiem of music, not of the self. All of the music played by this duo consists of fragments (excerpts) from 31 different compositions written during my career as a composer. They occur chronologically and are divided equally within the whole work and its four sections. Since chronology was determined, I then matched each fragment with whatever mallet percussion timbre I felt suited the excerpt. Additionally I wanted each player to have one each of a wood and metal mallet instrument and no pair of excerpts to be performed at the same time. However, a slight overlap may occur. Thus, the actual flow from one mallet instrument to the next was not determined. I was only hoping that the assigned instrument coupled with the chronology of the excerpt would have some amount of variety. Fifteen fragments occur in each half: seven for player 1, 8 for player 2. This is reversed in the second half. The final self-quote, a coda and an afterthought, is spoken in a friendly, but firm voice by any one of the four performers. My intention in basing all of the active foreground on my previous works (and re-using four of my home-made rattling instruments within the background) is not to be taken as some perverse kind of egocentrism or self-quoting. Quite the contrary, this work is a statement about the problem facing contemporary classical composition for many decades – that of obtaining a second or multiple performances. But it seems that the only way I (or anyone) will ever hear most of them again is to compose them again and have a world premiere – a very strange irony. Even more ironic is the spoken coda, the final prophetic piece from My own ‘Fluxus’ Pieces, where the word “tacet” now takes on a whole new meaning. Similar to other works of mine, notions of foreground vs background, static vs movement, active vs passive, left vs right, calculated vs random are present and woven into my other pre-occupation with music based on interruptions and fragments.
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Toronto
01TO60776
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1
Calgary
01CA60776
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1
Montréal
01MO60776
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1
Vancouver
01VA60776
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1
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