For prepared piano and percussion trio, includes score. Three scores needed for performance.
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Review from Percussive Arts Society:
Ghost Tangents
Dean Drummond
This 1973 quartet (revised in 1975 and published in 2019 by Media Press) is an intense, contemporary sounding composition that combines very unusual timbres with a “prepared-piano” performer. In a bygone era, it might necessitate a trip to the local junk yard to secure an automobile coil spring or brake drums (one usually does not find these in the local music store). Once the quartet has the appropriate timbres and the piano is prepared with the appropriate bolts (without damaging the baby grand piano), the rehearsals can begin. Obviously, the prepared piano becomes a very unique percussive timbre, which blends with the remaining percussion instruments performed by a trio of percussionists.
The 34-page score is filled with constant meter shifts, from 2/4 to 3/4 to 5/8 to 3/16, creating a matrix filled with continual change in the quarter-note equals 72 bpm tempo. Dramatic changes in dynamics create a mood of sensitivity in this avant-garde style of composition.
This work is only for a very advanced set of four musicians who are committed to intense concentration for a 10- to 11-minute performance. —Jim Lambert, 2020
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