21 Grams

Caleb Pickering

General Info

Year: 20
Duration: c.
Difficulty: (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Title Publisher
Cost: Score and Parts - $36.00.00   |   Score Only - $0.00

Instrumentation

Player 1: Glockenspiel & Crotales
Player 2: Vibraphone
Player 3: Vibraphone
Player 4: Marimba
Player 5: Marimba
Player 6: Marimba
Player 7: Marimba
Player 8: Timpani
Player 9: Piano
Player 10: Bass Drum & Crash Cymbal & Tam-Tam & Triangle & Field Drum & Brake Drum
Player 11: 3 Concert Tom-toms (suggested 16", 14", 12"), Concert Snare Drum & Suspended Cymbal & Crash Cymbal & Bell Tree

Program Notes

21 Grams refers to the hypothesized "weight of the human soul," as described by Dr. Duncan Macdougall in his 1907 medical experiments. Dr. Macdougall conducted several experiments measuring the weight of his patients before, during, and after their deaths. This work is abstractly programmatic in that it follows a general interpretation of seeing what lies beyond our existence on earth, both good and bad. The main themes include an original hymn melody in the style of diatonic chant, and the famous Christian Passion hymn "O Sacred Head, Now Wounded."

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Works for Percussion by this Composer

Solos

[A]tudes, 26 Advanced Studies for Snare Drum (Volume 1)
[A]tudes, 26 Advanced Studies for Snare Drum (Volume 2)
An Assembly of Outrage - Snare Drum
Heavy Binary - Snare Drum
Non-Prophets - Snare Drum
Tinfoil - Multiple Percussion
Shred - Multiple Percussion
Drift- Marimba
Etude in D Minor (Pickering)- Marimba
Malice- Marimba
Paradigm (Pickering)- Marimba
Prelude in C Major (Pickering)- Marimba
Rhapsody Bacchanale- Marimba

Ensemble

21 Grams - Percussion 10
Beneath - Percussion Nonet
Bright Light - Dark Shadows - Percussion Nonet
Carve into me what you call love - Percussion Nonet
Dreadnought - Percussion 11
Electro-Phantasm - Percussion sextet
Post-Sunrise - Percussion Quintet]]
Powder Keg - Mallet Quartet
Suadela - Percussion Sextet