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Metheny Dream

for percussion ensemble
Level: Advanced
Duration: 3:20
Personnel: 8 players
State Lists: Indiana | Florida | Missouri | Texas
Release Date: 2003
Product ID : TSPCE-06
Price: $45.00
Item #: TSPCE-06

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Description

This short medley contains themes from Letter From Home and First Circle by Pat Metheny and Lyle Mays. It contains beautiful harmonies and interplay between all players of the ensemble. While the complex meter changes may supply an initial challenge to performers, the end result is a seamless thread of beautiful music with a subtle underlying groove.

This collection, arranged by James Ancona, was first performed by the Santa Clara Vanguard Percussion Ensemble and was choreographed by George Staib.

This piece comes as a professionally printed and bound score and a set of printed parts.

Instrumentation

  • Crotales
  • Glockenspiel
  • Chimes
  • 2 vibraphones
  • 3 marimbas—low A
  • 5 timpani
  • Bongos
  • Cymbals (sizzle cymbal, 16" & 18" suspended cymbals, ride cymbal)
  • Accessories (small cabasa, mark tree)

Description

This short medley contains themes from Letter From Home and First Circle by Pat Metheny and Lyle Mays. It contains beautiful harmonies and interplay between all players of the ensemble. While the complex meter changes may supply an initial challenge to performers, the end result is a seamless thread of beautiful music with a subtle underlying groove.

This collection, arranged by James Ancona, was first performed by the Santa Clara Vanguard Percussion Ensemble and was choreographed by George Staib.

This piece comes as a professionally printed and bound score and a set of printed parts.

Instrumentation

  • Crotales
  • Glockenspiel
  • Chimes
  • 2 vibraphones
  • 3 marimbas—low A
  • 5 timpani
  • Bongos
  • Cymbals (sizzle cymbal, 16" & 18" suspended cymbals, ride cymbal)
  • Accessories (small cabasa, mark tree)


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