Grand Union

Charles Wuorinen

General Info

Year: 1973
Duration: c. 13:15
Difficulty: (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Edition Peters
Cost: Score and Parts - $25.75 ​  |   Score Only - $0.00

Instrumentation

Drums
Violin

Program Notes

GRAND UNION for Cello and Drums was composed in the summer of 1973. It is a two-voice piece, with the four drums participating in a melodic/contrapuntal way. But nevertheless, the cello is the leader here, if only because it possesses its entire gamut of pitches, to contrast with the simple four of the drums. The work is in a single movement, and is called GRAND UNION because the two participants have the same material, or reversals of the same -- excepting certain ornamental music given solely to the cello.

GRAND UNION is written to observe the twenty-fifth birthday of Fred Sherry.

-CW, 29 September 1973

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Works for Percussion by this Composer

Eleven Short Pieces - Vibraphone, Violin
Grand Union - Multiple Percussion, Cello
Invention for Percussion Quintet - Percussion Quintet
Janissary Music - Multiple Percussion
Marimba Variations - Marimba
Metagong - Percussion Duo, (2) Pianos
Percussion Duo (Wuorinen) - Percussion Duo
Percussion Quartet (Wuorinen) - Percussion Quartet
Percussion Symphony - Percussion Ensemble (24)
Ringing Changes - Percussion Ensemble (10), (2) Pianos
Second Percussion Symphony - Percussion (14)
Spinoff - Violin, Double Bass, Congas
Xenolith - Multiple Percussion, Viola