Camaraderie
General Info
Year of Published: 2014
Publisher: Keyboard Percussion Publications
Difficulty: Advanced
Commissioner: Hamiruge （the Louisiana State University Percussion Ensemble）
Cost: $48.00
Instrumentation
Soloist
Percussion Ensemble
Player 1: Marimba & Tom-toms & Brake Drums & Flexatone
Player 2: Vibraphone & Snare Drum & Maracas & Triangle & Castanet Machine
Player 3: Xylophone & 3 Suspended Cymbals & 4 Roto-toms & Guiro
Player 4: Chimes & Marching Bass drum & 4 Bowl Gongs & Claves
Player 5: Glockenspiel & Concert Bass Drum & Tam-tam & Temple Blocks
Player 6: Agogo bells & Tenor Drum & Wind Chimes & Bell Plate & Woodblock
Player 7: Tam-tam & 2 Log drums & 4 Tom-toms & Cowbell
Description
The term “camaraderie” is defined as good will and light-hearted rapport between friends. The title is symbolic of the musical rapport between the soloist and the ensemble.
Following a brief introduction, the timpani enters in an unaccompanied flourish of rapid notes and is joined a few minutes later by the ensemble, which includes both definitely and indefinitely pitched instruments. The ensemble part alternates between groups of similar instruments (wood, metal, membranes) and mixed instrumental textures.
Call and response passages are frequent, including a section in which players “trade riffs.” Call and response passages lead to a partly improvised polyrhythmic section in which three players blow “party horns” as a means of comic relief. Camaraderie concludes with dense counterpoint preceded by a timpani cadenza.
Premiere Details
Soloist: Shawn Galvin
Ensemble: Hamiruge
Conductor: Brett William Dietz
Date: 22nd April 2007
Recent Performance
Works for Percussion by this Composer
Solo
Reverberations - Timpani
Three Movements for Unaccompanied Marimba - Marimba
Variation sans theme - Snare Drum
Solo with Piano
Collage - Multiple Percussion; Piano
Solo with Ensemble
Camaraderie - Timpani; Percussion Septet
Isorhythmic Concerto - Multiple Percussion; Wind Ensemble
Protagonist - Tom-tom; Percussion Trio
Tamboo Bamboo - Steel Drum; Percussion Orchestra
Mallet Duo
Elusive Rounds - Glockenspiel Duo
Road Traversed and Reversed - Marimba Duo
Percussion Duo
Percussion Trio
Mallet Quartet
Percussion Quartet
Percussion Sextet
Percussion Septet
Percussion Octet
Large Percussion Ensemble
Two Antiphonal Portraits - Percussion Ensemble (12)
With Other Instruments
Between - Marimba; Flute
Concerto for Euphonium and Percussion Quintet - Percussion Quintet; Euphonium
Equipoise - Multiple Percussion; Saxophone
Focus - Vibraphone; Bassoon
Khromas Diabolus - Percussion Quintet; Trombone
Shadow on Mist - Multiple Percussion; Flute
Shadow on Mist (Ensemble) - Percussion Quintet; Flute
Syzygy - Marimba; Violin
Three Subtropical Vistas - Marimba, Vibraphone, Voice
Twilight Remembered - Multiple Percussion; Flute
Windward Passage - Marimba, Vibraphone, String Quartet
Books
Five Elementary Etudes - Multiple Percussion
Performance Studies for Two, Volume 1 - Snare Drum