Clapping Music Variations
General Info
Publisher: Alfred Music
Difficulty: Advanced
Cost: $19.95
Instrumentation
Player 1: Hi-Hat & Snare Drum & Tenor Drum & Kick Drum & Sizzle Cymbal
Player 2: Hi-Hat & Snare Drum & Tenor Drum & Kick Drum
Player 3: Vibraphone
Player 4: Vibraphone
Player 5: Hi Pitched Bell (with clapper), Marimba
Player 6: Low Pitched Bell (with clapper), Marimba
Player 7: Crotales
Player 8: Glockenspiel
Player 9: Marimba
Player 10: Marimba
Player 11: Xylophone & Gong
Player 12: Hammered Dulcimer
Description
Variations upon Steve Reich's Clapping Music. This is a musically and intellectually intriguing exploration of the rhythmic motives of Clapping Music. Glenn Kotche uses numerous percussive textures to highlight the rhythmic interplay of the original rhythms.
Recent Performance
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Works for Percussion by this Composer
Steve Reich Works
Drumming - Percussion Ensemble (9); Voice; Piccolo
Mallet Quartet - Percussion Quartet, Mallet Ensemble
Music for Mallet Instruments, Voices and Organ - Percussion Quartet; Voices; Organ
Music for Pieces of Wood - Percussion Quintet
Nagoya Marimbas - Marimba Duo
Piano Phase - Marimba Duo
Sextet - Percussion Quartet; Piano (2)
Six Marimbas - Percussion Sextet
Glenn Kotche Works
Anomaly Concerto for Drumset and String Orchestra - Drumset, Orchestra
Anomaly Mvt. 7 for Marimba Duo - Percussion Duo - Marimba Duo
Calling Glenn - Percussion Trio, Electronics
Cave Dance - Snare Drum
Cheju - Multiple Percussion, Electronics
Chong Ji - Orchestra Bells
Clapping Music Variations - Percussion Ensemble (12)
Drumkit Quartets - Percussion Quartet
Fantasy on a Shona Theme - Vibraphone or Marimba
Fantasy on the Fifth - Drumset
Hunting the Lion - Percussion Quartet
Hush - Percussion Ensemble (10), Chorus
Incline on the Inside - Multiple Percussion, Electronics
Infinite Tree - Drumset, Orchestra
Mask - Vibraphone, with Tape
Mobile for Multiple Percussion - Multiple Percussion, with Tape
Monkey Chant - Drumset
Next: 18 Drumkit Installations - Chamber Ensemble
Night Flight (Kotche) - Percussion Quintet
Projections of (What) Might - Drumset, with Tape
Reductions or Imitations - Percussion Ensemble
Rex Tremendae - Percussion Quartet, Chorus
Something of Life - Drumset, Cello, Electronics
Stagger On - Coda - Multiple Percussion, with Tape
Stone Flow - Percussion Quartet - Mallet Quartet
Taisho - Vibraphone, Double Bass
The Beautiful Confusion Percussion Ensemble
The Haunted - Percussion Duo, 2 Pianos
The Haunted Dance - Percussion Duo, 2 Pianos
The Haunted Hive - Percussion Quartet
The Haunted Viaduct - Percussion Duo, 2 Pianos
Three Worlds Collide - Percussion Ensemble
Time Passages - Multiple Percussion, Orchestra
Transferencia - Percussion Sextet
Traveling Turtle for Percussion Ensemble - Percussion Ensemble (12)
Traveling Turtle for Percussion Quartet - Percussion Quartet
Wading Pool - Electronic Percussion
Wild Sound - Percussion Quartet, Electronics, Video
Wild Sound, Part 4 - Final Segment - Percussion Quartet - Mallet Quartet
Wild Sound for Solo Drumkit - Drumset
Wild Things - Drumset, Electronics