[Shultis] Experimental Music and Writings (1988 - 1994) Percussion Ensemble - Digital Sheet Music

SKU: A0.952664

A collection of early works and writings for various ensembles (mostly centered around percussion) as collected by the composer.

Musical Works:

1. motion/less for percussion solo
2. Oneiro for percussion trio
3. 64 Statements re and not re Child of Tree for solo percussion and audio tapes
4. Pastorale for solo percussioin and Dancer
5. Friends, for piano, crotales, and narrator
6. Three Short Pieces
      i. Five, brass quintet
      ii. Four interludes from Downward Facing Dog, for piano solo
      iii. For Frank Bowen, solo flute
7. Decline of the West, for female narrator and all-male heavy-metal band
8. Metaphysics, for spoken voice and boom boxes, requiring 7 assistants
9. Faith, for voice or any instrument
10. Hope, for hand percussion, guitars, and voices (Version 2 of Decline of the West, when performed as part of the opera, Faith, Hope, and Love
11. Love, for Seven Performers
12. Do something/Do something else, for any number of performers
13. Gesturing hands, for solo theremin
14. Blindness, for solo marimba
15. Written on the body, for musicians and dancers

Texts:

1. Synesthesia and the Re-integration of the Senses
2. Experiment and Revolution, a primary role of percussion in American music
3. The Politics of Improvisation