Babylon - Revision history

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	==General Info==		==General Info==
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	==General Info==		==General Info==
	Year ~~of Published~~: 2019 <br/>		Year: 2019 <br/>
	Publisher: [[C. Alan Publications]]<br/>		Publisher: [[C. Alan Publications]]<br/>
	Difficulty: Advanced<br/>		Difficulty: Advanced<br/>

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	Player 10: [[Rainstick]] & [[Suspended Cymbal]](shared) & [[Crash Cymbals]](shared) & 2 [[Brake Drums]] (shared) & [[Snare Drum]] (shared)<br/>		Player 10: [[Rainstick]] & [[Suspended Cymbal]](shared) & [[Crash Cymbals]](shared) & 2 [[Brake Drums]] (shared) & [[Snare Drum]] (shared)<br/>
	Player 11: [[Tam-Tam]] & [[Crash Cymbal]] (shared) & 2 [[Brake Drums]] (shared) & 5 Concert [[Tom-tom]]s (shared) & [[Bongos]] & [[Suspended Cymbal]] (shared)<br/>		Player 11: [[Tam-Tam]] & [[Crash Cymbal]] (shared) & 2 [[Brake Drums]] (shared) & 5 Concert [[Tom-tom]]s (shared) & [[Bongos]] & [[Suspended Cymbal]] (shared)<br/>
	Player 12: [[Bass Drum]] & [[Wind Chimes]] & 2 [[Congas]] & [[Hi-Hat, 5 Concert [[Tom-tom]]s (shared)<br/>		Player 12: [[Bass Drum]] & [[Wind Chimes]] & 2 [[Congas]] & [[Hi-Hat]] & 5 Concert [[Tom-tom]]s (shared)<br/>
	Player 13: [[Timpani]]<br/>		Player 13: [[Timpani]]<br/>
	Player 14: [[Piano]]<br/>		Player 14: [[Piano]]<br/>

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[[David Gillingham]]

==General Info==
Year of Published: 2019 
Publisher: [[C. Alan Publications]] 
Difficulty: Advanced 
Duration: 00:08:50 
Cost: $75.00

==Instrumentation==
Player 1: [[Crotales]] (shared) & [[Xylophone]] 
Player 2: [[Glockenspiel]] & [[Xylophone]] 
Player 3: [[Vibraphone]] 
Player 4: [[Vibraphone]] 
Player 5: [[Marimba]] 
Player 6: [[Marimba]] 
Player 7: [[Marimba]] 
Player 8: [[Marimba]] 
Player 9: 5 Tibetan [[Prayer Bowls]] & [[Chimes]] & [[Crotales]] (shared) & [[Suspended Cymbal (shared) 
Player 10: [[Rainstick]] & [[Suspended Cymbal]](shared) & [[Crash Cymbals]](shared) & 2 [[Brake Drums]] (shared) & [[Snare Drum]] (shared) 
Player 11: [[Tam-Tam]] & [[Crash Cymbal]] (shared) & 2 [[Brake Drums]] (shared) & 5 Concert [[Tom-tom]]s (shared) & [[Bongos]] & [[Suspended Cymbal]] (shared) 
Player 12: [[Bass Drum]] & [[Wind Chimes]] & 2 [[Congas]] & [[Hi-Hat, 5 Concert [[Tom-tom]]s (shared) 
Player 13: [[Timpani]] 
Player 14: [[Piano]] 

==Program Notes==
Babylon was commissioned by the Texas Christian University Percussion Orchestra, Brian West, conductor. The piece is programmatic and is inspired by the story of “The Tower of Babel” from the chapter of Genesis of the Bible:

Genesis 11:1-9
Now the whole world had one language and a common speech. As people moved eastward, they found a plain in Shinar and settled there. They said to each other, “Come, let’s make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” They used brick instead of stone, and tar for mortar. Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves; otherwise we will be scattered over the face of the whole earth.” But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower the people were building. The Lord said, “If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them. Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other.” So the Lord scattered them from there over all the earth, and they stopped building the city. That is why it was called Babel - because there the Lord confused the language of the whole world. From there the Lord scattered them over the face of the whole earth.

The piece is divided into three sections that follow the story, Land of Shinar, Tower to Heaven, and Confusion of Language, each with its own theme. The Land of Shinar theme is built upon a sequence of chromatic mediant chordal progressions. Tower to Heaven features a rising theme using mostly rising fourth/descending fifth chord progressions. Confusion of Language is a 12-tone row and the section features difference variants of the row (inversion, retrograde, retrograde inversion) and different permutations to emulate the confusion of languages.

The Tower to Heaven theme cycles throughout the whole work. Deviating somewhat from the original story of Babylon, the “tower theme” emerges from the Confusion of Language section as a reminder of the infamous structure built by the people of Shinar before they were scattered throughout the earth. The piece ends as mystically and quietly as it began.

==Recent Performance==
<embedvideo service="youtube">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUWCIVJYz8M</embedvideo>
<embedvideo service="youtube">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fv80Xke6PnU</embedvideo>
<embedvideo service="youtube">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptDSP2a50Kg</embedvideo>

==Works for Percussion by this Composer==
{{Gillingham, David Works}}

==Reference==

[[Category: Percussion Ensemble Works]]
[[Category: Percussion 13 Works]]

Babylon - Revision history

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Difficulty: Advanced
Duration: 00:08:50
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