Dissolve
General Info
Year: 2002
Duration: c. 3:00
Difficulty: (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Alan, C.
Cost: Score and Parts - $0.00 | Score Only - $0.00
Movements
Instrumentation
Player I: marimba, cowbell
Player II: marimba, claves
Player III: marimba, woodblock
Player IV: marimba, bass drum
Player V: vibraphone, 3 suspended cymbals
Player VI: temple blocks, small tam-tam, orchestra bells
Player VII: 4 tom-toms, large tam-tam
Player VIII: crotales, suspended brake drums
Program Notes
The title of Dissolve refers both to the literal definition of the term, a separation of an entity into its constituent parts, and to a cinemagraphic technique in which one image is gradually transformed into another. Resonant sounds dissolve according to their natural acoustical decay. Sustained sounds dissolve into percussive passages and definitely pitched sonorities dissolve into the sounds of indefinitely pitched instruments. Homophonic and polyphonic textures dissolve into one another. Dissolve is composed in a three section form that resembles ternary or rounded binary but is neither, as the three sections are distinguished mostly by timbre, texture, and the relationship between definite and indefinite pitch.[1]
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Works for Percussion by this Composer
Alloy - Percussion Trio
Ambience (Adams) - Percussion Septet
Andalusian Haiku - Percussion Duo
Between - Marimba; Flute
Camaraderie - Timpani; Percussion Septet
Collage - Multiple Percussion; Piano
Concerto for Euphonium and Percussion Quintet - Percussion Quintet; Euphonium
Dissolve - Percussion Octet
Echogenesis - Percussion Quartet
Equipoise - Multiple Percussion; Saxophone
Five Elementary Etudes - Multiple Percussion
Focus - Vibraphone; Bassoon
Isorhythmic Concerto - Multiple Percussion; Wind Ensemble
Khromas Diabolus - Percussion Quintet; Trombone
Lignumvitae - Percussion Trio
Performance Studies for Two, Volume 1 - Snare Drum
Protagonist - Tom-tom; Percussion Trio
Reverberations - Timpani
Road Traversed and Reversed - Marimba Duo
Shadow on Mist - Multiple Percussion; Flute
Shadow on Mist (Ensemble) - Percussion Quintet; Flute
Stratum - Marimba Quartet
Syzygy - Marimba; Violin
Talea - Percussion Sextet
Tamboo Bamboo - Steel Drum; Percussion Orchestra
Three Movements for Unaccompanied Marimba - Marimba
Three Subtropical Vistas - Marimba, Vibraphone, Voice
Times Two - Percussion Duo
Twilight Remembered - Multiple Percussion; Flute
Two Antiphonal Portraits - Percussion Ensemble (12)
Variation sans theme - Snare Drum
Windward Passage - Marimba, Vibraphone, String Quartet
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