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CONTEMPORARY MUSIC FOR PERCUSSION

This section explores contemporary percussion music, encompassing diverse modern percussion repertoire and progressive compositions. It highlights cutting-edge and avant-garde percussion pieces, showcasing experimental sounds for soloists and ensembles, including works by Lior Navok.

UNACCOMPANIED PERCUSSION

unaccompanied


Rosewood Staircase
6' | marimba solo
 

This section presents unaccompanied percussion music, featuring diverse percussion solos and extensive solo percussion repertoire. It highlights compelling unaccompanied drumming and unique solo pieces, showcasing new explorations, including works by Lior Navok.

PERCUSSON ENSEMBLE

p. ensemble


Signals
for percussion ensemble
11' | percussion (4 players) and piano / celeste (one player)
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This section features diverse percussion ensemble music, showcasing significant percussion ensemble compositions and extensive percussion ensemble repertoire. It highlights various ensemble performances and contemporary drum ensemble pieces, including celebrated works by Lior Navok.

CHAMBER MUSIC FOR PERCUSSION

CHAMBER MUSIC


Frozen Junctions
13' | vibraphone, viola and piano
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This section explores chamber music featuring percussion, encompassing diverse percussion chamber ensembles and extensive percussion chamber repertoire. It highlights cutting-edge percussion in small ensemble music and intimate chamber performances, including significant works by Lior Navok.

V5 – Quintet for Vibraphone and String Quartet
for vibraphone and string quartet
17' | vibraphone, violins (2), viola and cello
 

PERCUSSION CONCERTO

concerto


…of weaving the shadowed waves
for two marimbas and chamber orchestra
7'30" | 2 marimbas (soli), 2 oboes, 2 horns, strings (6,5,4,3,1)
 

This section presents music for percussion concerto, encompassing diverse percussion concerto repertoire and significant percussion concerto pieces. It highlights percussion soloist performances in concerto settings and showcases works by Lior Navok.

VOCAL MUSIC WITH percssion

PERCUSSION AND VOICE


Dialogues
for soprano and percussion
11' | soprano and percussion
 

This section presents music for voice and percussion, encompassing diverse vocal percussion compositions and vocal works with percussion accompaniment. It highlights unique percussion and voice ensembles, featuring innovative collaborations and repertoire, including works by Lior Navok.

Bestiarius (The Book of Monsters and Creatures)
for alto/mezzo-soprano and ensemble
11' | alto / mezzo-soprano, flute / piccolo, clarinet, bassoon, violin, percussion (2), harpsichord
 

PERCUSSION WITH ENSEMBLE

CHAMBER MUSIC

This section explores chamber ensemble music with percussion, encompassing diverse percussion chamber ensembles and extensive percussion chamber repertoire. It highlights cutting-edge percussion in small ensemble music, including significant works by Lior Navok.


After a Tango
for chamber ensemble
16' | recorders (3), clarinet, trumpet, trombone, guitar, percussion, violin, double bass​
 

Elegy to the Future
for Pierrot ensemble
13' | piccolo / alto flute; clarinet; violin; cello; percussion; piano
 

Flashes of Decay
for chamber ensemble
12' | flute / piccolo; English horn; clarinet / bass clarinet; horn; tuba; percussion (2); harp; piano
 

Quicksand
for Pierrot ensemble
11' | bass clarinet, violin, cello, percussion and piano
 

Sextet
for Pierrot ensemble
22' | flute / piccolo/bass flute, clarinet / bass clarinet, violin, cello, percussion and piano
 

Three Episodes for Chamber Ensemble
for chamber ensemble
12' | flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, percussion (1), piano, violin, viola, cello and double bass
 

STAGE MUSIC WITH PERCUSSION

STAGE MUSIC WITH percussin


Gitz & Spitz 
for actor and chamber ensemble
50' | actor; clarinet, alto saxophone, bassoon; horn; trumpet; trombone, tuba and percussion (1)
 

The Little Mermaid
for actress and chamber ensemble / chamber orchestra
36' | actress, flute / piccolo, clarinet, percussion (1), two pianos and string quintet
OR
actress, flute / piccolo, clarinet, percussion (1), two pianos and string section
 

Sheet Music for Percussion:

List of Key 20th–21st Century Piano Repertoire

  • John Cage – Third Construction – percussion ensemble – 1941

  • Elliott Carter – Eight Pieces for Four Timpani – solo timpani – 1949-1966

  • Michael Colgrass – Déjà Vu – percussion and orchestra – 1978

  • William Cahn – Raga No. 1 – solo timpani – 1975

  • David Lang – The So-Called Laws of Nature – percussion trio – 2002

  • James Tenney – Koan – solo percussion – 1971

  • Karlheinz Stockhausen – Zyklus – solo percussion – 1959

  • Iannis Xenakis – Psappha – solo percussion – 1975

  • Steve Reich – Drumming – percussion ensemble – 1971

  • Lou Harrison – Concerto for Violin and Percussion Orchestra – percussion and violin – 1959

  • Toru Takemitsu – Rain Tree – percussion trio – 1981

  • Edgard Varèse – Ionisation – percussion ensemble – 1931

  • Henry Cowell – Ostinato Pianissimo – percussion ensemble – 1934

  • John Luther Adams – Strange and Sacred Noise – percussion quartet – 1997

  • George Crumb – Idyll for the Misbegotten – percussion and flute – 1986

  • Paul Lansky – Threads – percussion quartet – 2005

  • Christopher Rouse – Ogoun Badagris – percussion ensemble – 1976

  • Gerard Grisey – Tempus ex Machina – percussion ensemble – 1979

  • Harrison Birtwistle – For O, for O, the Hobby-Horse is Forgot – percussion ensemble – 1993

  • Tristan Murail – Les travaux et les jours – percussion ensemble – 2002

  • Brian Ferneyhough – Bone Alphabet – solo percussion – 1991

  • Helmut Lachenmann – Intérieur I – percussion and piano – 1965

  • Mark Applebaum – Straitjacket – percussion and electronics – 2000

  • Unsuk Chin – Double Concerto – percussion and piano – 2002

  • Tania León – A la Par – percussion and piano – 1986

  • Jennifer Higdon – Splendid Wood – percussion sextet – 2006

  • Augusta Read Thomas – Resounding Earth – percussion quartet – 2012

  • Jo Kondo – Under the Umbrella – percussion ensemble – 1976

  • Per Nørgård – Arabesques – percussion ensemble – 1987

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