Two Designs
General Info
Year:
Publisher: C. Alan Publications
Instrumentation
Player 1: Xylophone & Tambourine & Triangle & Wind Chimes
Player 2: Chimes & Bass Drum
Player 3: Bongos & Suspended Cymbal & Mark Tree & Temple Blocks & Claves & Brake Drum & Gong
Player 4: 4 Concert Tom-toms & Gong & Snare Drum
Player 5: Vibraphone & Field Drum
Player 6: Snare Drum & Cowbell & Marimba
Player 7: 4 Timpani & Suspended Cymbal
Program Notes
Two Designs is a percussion septet composed by Mario Gaetano. Highly dramatic with dynamic ups and downs along with passages of layered rhythms that culminate in explosions of sound.
Recent Performance
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Works for Percussion by this Composer
Marimba
Fantasy for El Salvador
Prelude No.1
Two Movements for Marimba
Multiple Percussion
Multiple Episode No. 1
Multiple Episode No. 2
Multiple Episode No. 3
Sonatina per Batteria
Sonatina per Batteria No. 2
Snare Drum
Vibraphone
Ensemble
Action/Reaction - Percussion Sextet
Circles (Gaetano) - Marimba; Percussion Duo
Four Studies for Young Percussion Ensemble - Percussion Quartet
Junk Funk - Percussion Quintet
Mosaic, Op. 30 - Percussion Octet
Overture for Percussion Ensemble (Gaetano) - Percussion Nonet
Shanghai - Percussion Ensemble
Scenes from Earth - Percussion Septet; Piano
Two Designs - Percussion Septet
Undercurrents (Gaetano) - Percussion Septet
Flexible Instrumentation
With Other Instruments
State of the Art - Multiple Percussion; Clarinet
The Weather of Six Mornings - Percussion Quartet; Voice; Flute
Three Inventions for Flute and Percussion - Multiple Percussion; Flute