Camaraderie
General Info
Year of Published: 2014
Publisher: Keyboard Percussion Publications
Difficulty: Advanced
Commissioner: Hamiruge （the Louisiana State University Percussion Ensemble）
Cost: $48.00
Instrumentation
Soloist
Percussion Ensemble
Player 1: Marimba & Tom-toms & Brake Drums & Flexatone
Player 2: Vibraphone & Snare Drum & Maracas & Triangle & Castanet Machine
Player 3: Xylophone & 3 Suspended Cymbals & 4 Roto-toms & Guiro
Player 4: Chimes & Marching Bass drum & 4 Bowl Gongs & Claves
Player 5: Glockenspiel & Concert Bass Drum & Tam-tam & Temple Blocks
Player 6: Agogo bells & Tenor Drum & Wind Chimes & Bell Plate & Woodblock
Player 7: Tam-tam & 2 Log drums & 4 Tom-toms & Cowbell
Description
The term “camaraderie” is defined as good will and light-hearted rapport between friends. The title is symbolic of the musical rapport between the soloist and the ensemble.
Following a brief introduction, the timpani enters in an unaccompanied flourish of rapid notes and is joined a few minutes later by the ensemble, which includes both definitely and indefinitely pitched instruments. The ensemble part alternates between groups of similar instruments (wood, metal, membranes) and mixed instrumental textures.
Call and response passages are frequent, including a section in which players “trade riffs.” Call and response passages lead to a partly improvised polyrhythmic section in which three players blow “party horns” as a means of comic relief. Camaraderie concludes with dense counterpoint preceded by a timpani cadenza.
Premiere Details
Soloist: Shawn Galvin
Ensemble: Hamiruge
Conductor: Brett William Dietz
Date: 22nd April 2007