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Despite being a common grouping in jazz, saxophone, piano and percussion was an extremely rare grouping in classical music until the end of the 20th century, when Trio Accanto started commissioning works to build a repertoire for themselves.
In music, a cloud is a sound mass consisting of statistical clouds of hundreds or thousands of microsounds [1] and characterized first by the set of elements used in the texture, secondly density, the number of events within a time period. [2] Clouds may include ambiguity of rhythmic foreground and background or rhythmic hierarchy. Examples ...
Percussion notation is a type of musical notation indicating notes to be played by percussion instruments. As with other forms of musical notation, sounds are represented by symbols which are usually written onto a musical staff (or stave). Percussion instruments are generally grouped into two categories: pitched and non-pitched. The notation ...
The Sousa Archives and Center for American Music holds the Paul Price Percussion Music and Papers, 1961–1982, [3] which consists of percussion sheet music, sound recordings, and correspondence documenting Price's career as a percussion musician, and conductor of the Manhattan Percussion Ensemble.
Music for Flute, Strings, and Percussion is a piece written by Sofia Gubaidulina in 1994 dedicated to Pierre-Yves Artaud. The instruments are divided into two sections, one of which is tuned a quarter-tone lower than the other. [1] Gubaidulina (2001) describes, "in this way the potential of treating both halves as 'light' and 'shadow' emerges."
Ren Guang Colorful Clouds Chasing the Moon (彩雲追月) Ren Guang (Chinese: 任光; pinyin: Rén Guāng; November 9, 1900 in Zhejiang – January 1941), also known by a pen name, Ren Qianfa (任前发), was a noted Chinese composer of the early 20th century. Ren studied in Paris beginning in 1919, and there acquired the techniques of music ...
Suggested notation of music for flexatone, using roll symbols for the tremolo and approximate pitch [3] Rhythmic pattern easily playable on the flexatone [4]. The flexatone or fleximetal is a modern percussion instrument (an indirectly struck idiophone) consisting of a small flexible metal sheet suspended in a wire frame ending in a handle. [5]
The yunluo (simplified: 云锣; traditional: 雲鑼 pinyin: yúnluó, [y̌nlu̯ɔ̌]; literally "cloud gongs" or "cloud of gongs"), is a traditional Chinese musical instrument. [1] It is made up of a set of gongs of varying sizes held within a frame. It was also called yún'áo in ancient times.