Four Voice Canon #5
(percussion)
Date: 1983
Place: Mills College, for William Winant
Instrumentation: Score calls for
"organized percussion." Instruments used in recording (skin, metal,
tambourine, wood):
Voice 1:
large bass drum, large brake drum (courtesy of Lou Harrison), large Egyptian
tambourine (courtest of Peter Maund), lowest note of American Gamelan gambang
(built by Lou Harrison/Bill Colvig)
Voice 2:
low roto-tom, amglocken, low tambourine, temple block
Voice 3:
middle-range roto-tom, salad bowl (wedding gift from Laura Daigen),
"normal" tambourine, high temple block
Voice 4:
highest roto-tom, high amglocken, small tambourine, highest note of gambang
Elements: instrument, duration, two types of
accents.
Comments: Orchestrated by LP and WW; 5/4 rhythmic pattern consisting of half-note, dotted-quarter, quarter, eighth. The Theory of Impossible Melody and Cold Blue CD.
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