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Smoke and Mirrors

for percussion quartet
Level: Advanced
Duration: 9:00
Personnel: 4 players
State Lists: Texas | Florida
Release Date: 2015
Product ID : TSPCE15-012
Price: $48.00
Item #: TSPCE15-012

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Description

"Smoke and Mirrors" is a metaphor that suggests we are constantly deceived by distractions and tricks and thus prevented from seeing a larger truth. In Thom Hasenpflug's Smoke and Mirrors, the symbolism of the expression is reflected in the mirror image instrumentation, alternating densities, and rhythmic displacements (which either add to obfuscation or provide clarity).

The style of this advanced quartet is intended to reminisce Hasenpflug's early 90’s piece Bicksa, though this piece is twice as long and has keyboard instrumentation to provide textural contrast. Smoke and Mirrors was composed in 2014 for Nebojsa Zivkovic and Ensemble Schlagwerk Wien and will provide a satisfying challenge for collegiate and pro-level artists.

This piece comes as a professionally printed and bound score and includes individual parts in PDF format for printing or for tablet viewing.



Instrumentation

  • Crotales (2 octaves)
  • Glockenspiel
  • Vibraphone
  • Drums (snare drum, floor tom, 6 concert toms, bass drum, bongos, 
  • Cymbals & gongs (ride cymbal, crash cymbal, splash cymbal, hi-hat, china cymbal, medium tam tam)
  • Accessories (sandpaper blocks, coffee can, 4 iron skillets, 2 brake drums 2 brake drums, 3 almglocken, triangle, 3 cowbells, 2 woodblocks, maracas)

Shared Recordings

Description

"Smoke and Mirrors" is a metaphor that suggests we are constantly deceived by distractions and tricks and thus prevented from seeing a larger truth. In Thom Hasenpflug's Smoke and Mirrors, the symbolism of the expression is reflected in the mirror image instrumentation, alternating densities, and rhythmic displacements (which either add to obfuscation or provide clarity).

The style of this advanced quartet is intended to reminisce Hasenpflug's early 90’s piece Bicksa, though this piece is twice as long and has keyboard instrumentation to provide textural contrast. Smoke and Mirrors was composed in 2014 for Nebojsa Zivkovic and Ensemble Schlagwerk Wien and will provide a satisfying challenge for collegiate and pro-level artists.

This piece comes as a professionally printed and bound score and includes individual parts in PDF format for printing or for tablet viewing.



Instrumentation

  • Crotales (2 octaves)
  • Glockenspiel
  • Vibraphone
  • Drums (snare drum, floor tom, 6 concert toms, bass drum, bongos, 
  • Cymbals & gongs (ride cymbal, crash cymbal, splash cymbal, hi-hat, china cymbal, medium tam tam)
  • Accessories (sandpaper blocks, coffee can, 4 iron skillets, 2 brake drums 2 brake drums, 3 almglocken, triangle, 3 cowbells, 2 woodblocks, maracas)

Shared Recordings



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