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Asterius for Percussion Ensemble by William Newton

Asterius for Percussion Ensemble by William Newton

$45.00 USD
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Description

Duration: 2'20"

Percussion Septet

Asterius is written for dedicated to the James Madison Middle School Percussion Ensemble and their director Victoria Shockley-Newton.

Victoria asked me to write a work for her students that was exciting, loud, and boisterous. The theme I came up with in response to that is the opening of the piece that uses tritones and half steps as a way of creating dissonance and the feeling of danger.

The name of the piece comes from the minotaur from ancient greek myth who is slain by Theseus. I thought that this particular myth was a perfect tie in to the exciting and dangerous sounding theme of the beginning as well as a fun hint to James Madison Middle Schools mascot the Matador.

Instrumentation:
  • Player 1: Xylophone
  • Player 2: Vibraphone
  • Player 3: Marimba (4.3)
  • Player 4: Marimba shared with Player 3
  • Player 5: Snare Drum
  • Player 6: Toms and Woodblocks (or Temple Blocks)
  • Player 7: Concert Bass Drum

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Upon purchase, you will receive a secure 24-hour link to the digital performance materials including:

  1. Full Score and Parts — PDF format

Copyright Agreement

The purchase of a PDF file constitutes an agreement that the file will be used solely for individual study or performance, and as such is limited to a single printing of each PDF file, with the exception of printing/photocopying multiple copies of parts required to perform chamber or larger instrumental ensemble works. Under no circumstances may any PDF file or part thereof, or any printing or photocopies of scores/parts derived from a PDF file be copied, resold, rented, shared, published, posted, distributed, transmitted, or modified in any way without the prior consent of Wildlight Publications LLC.