Japanese Impressions

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Composer Name

Anthony Cirone

General Info

Year: 1968
Duration: 00:05:35
Difficulty: Intermediate
Publisher: Columbia
Series: Percussion Ensemble Series
ISBN: 978-0-7692-1483-2
Cost: Score and Parts - $16.95   |   Score Only - $0.00

Instrumentation

Player 1: Glockenspiel & Temple Blocks & Bamboo Sticks
Player 2: Xylophone & Woodblocks & Bamboo Sticks
Player 3: Tom-toms & Bongos
Player 4: Suspended Cymbal & finger cymbals & bass drum & Wind Chimes (Bamboo)
Player 5: Timpani

Program Notes

Reviews

This new printing of Cirone's quintet is very readable, with all markings in the score and parts quite clear. The work is scored for orchestra bells, temple blocks, bamboo sticks, xylophone, two woodblocks, three tom- toms, bongos, suspended cymbal, finger cymbals, bass drum, bamboo wind chimes and four timpani. The A section features pentatonic keyboard phrases, and soloistic tom-tom and timpani passages. The B section uses mixed meters (2/8, 3/8, 4/8, 5/8) and features the bamboo sticks, center-of-head timpani playing, and the woodblocks and temple blocks. After a return of the A material, a quiet largo molto (eighth note = 60) for soft mallets and hands concludes the work. Both mallet parts include some double-stops as well as rapid single strokes. The bongo part includes some timbale-like shell-and-head patterns. The timpani part includes only one pitch change. The work is as effective now as it was in 1971, and certainly deserves to be a part of the concert repertoire for accomplished high school and young university-level percussion ensembles. - John Baldwin, April 1998

Works for Percussion by this Composer

Ensemble

Duet

Advanced Marimba Duets, Volume III
Double Concerto for Two Percussion and Orchestra

Trio

Take Three

Quartet

4/4 for Four
A Sacred Mass for Chorus and Percussion
Four/Four for Four
Fugue - Cirone
Pentadic Striations
Samba Classico
Three Phases
Triptych

Quintet

Five Items for Solo Marimba and Percussion Ensemble
Five Items for Soprano and Percussion
Japanese Impressions
Overture in Percussion
Percussionality

Sextet

A Little Song
Assimilation
Boom-Whap
Drums Galore
Finale
Fugue for Percussion Sextet
Gliding Along
March Right In
Nervous Notes
Processional

Large Ensemble

Cairo Suite - Percussion Ensemble (9)
Dichotomy - Percussion Ensemble (8)
Double Fanfare - Percussion Ensemble (12) - Harrison/Cirone

Solo

4-Mallet Etudes for Marimba
4-Mallet Marimba Solos
4-Mallet Studies for Marimba, Volume VI
NYSD: Orchestral Suite for Solo Snare Drum
Unaccompanied Solos for Marimba

Sonata

Sonata No. 1 for Timpani and Piano - Timpani; Piano
Sonata No. 2 for Trumpet and Percussion - Percussion; Trumpet
Sonata No. 3 for Clarinet and Percussion - Percussion; Clarinet
Sonata No. 4 for Violin and Percussion - Percussion; Violin; Piano

Symphony

Symphony No. 1 for Percussion Ensemble - Percussion Ensemble (8)
Symphony No. 2 for Percussion - Percussion Ensemble (9)
Symphony No. 3 (Sacred) - Percussion Sextet