Spark
General Info
Year of Published: 2021
Publisher: C. Alan Publications
Difficulty: Advanced
Duration: 00:05:30
Cost: $50.00
Instrumetation
Player 1: Glockenspiel
Player 2: Xylophone & Crotales
Player 3: Vibraphone 1
Player 4: Vibraphone 2
Player 5: Chimes & Wind Chimes & Sizzle Cymbal
Player 6: Marimba 1
Player 7: Marimba 2
Player 8: Marimba 3
Player 9: Marimba 4
Player 10: Timpani
Player 11: Triangle & Suspended Cymbal & Sizzle Cymbal & Tam-Tam & Snare Drum & Djembe
Player 12: Triangle & Bell Tree & Sizzle Cymbal & Ride Cymbal & Hi-Hat & China Cymbal & Tom-tom & Tam-Tam
Player 13: Bass Drum & Impact Drum & Suspended Cymbal & Sizzle Cymbal
Program Notes
Spark is composed around the concept of exponential expansion. Similar to how a small spark can lead to a great fire under the right circumstances or a simple idea can multiply to create large societal change, my goal when writing this piece was to make a complex and musically dense soundscape while maintaining the integrity and groove of the initial simple melody. While Spark was primarily written in the spring of 2020, the main theme has been a melody that I have played around with since I first started writing music and thus became the perfect catalyst for my first large-scale percussion ensemble work.