Description
Duration: 9'40"
Percussion Quartet
During my time at the University of Texas- San Antonio, I remember one week of my second year when I had extreme migraine stemming from lack of sleep and an obscene amount of caffeine. Every day of that week felt like there was a new type of migraine. Sometimes they came in waves throughout the day with a beating thump against my head, and other times it was a constant ringing in my head that I heard in every class and rehearsal. When I was writing this percussion quartet, I was trying to think of how I could describe every type of migraine I felt with a minimal amount of instruments. All of the different sections that vary in timbre and rhythm are a representation of a new type of migraine or a combination of multiple migraines.
Instrumentation:
- Percussion 1: 5.0 Marimba and Bowed Crotales
- Percussion 2: 5.0 Marimba and Bowed Crotales
- Percussion 3: Vibraphone and Mounted Kick Drum
- Percussion 4: Glockenspiel, Crotales, Bongos, and Low Tom
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Full Score and Parts — PDF format