For percussion ensemble by Thomas Siwe, includes score and parts. An easy and musical introduction to ensemble performance for young percussionists, Latin Sextet provides your students plenty of opportunity to work on ensemble skills. Lots of dynamic changes, tempo and meter changes, and several solo sections, but not difficult technically. Simple and flexible instrumentation that all schools will be able to cover. ca 3.5 minutes
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Review from Percussive Notes:
As the title suggests, this is a composition for six percussionists performing on Latin percussion instruments. The novice percussion ensemble will enjoy learning how to properly play maracas, claves, cowbell, bongos, timbales, and timpani by performing this piece. Scored with basic rhythmic vocabulary of whole, half, quarter, eighth, and sixteenth notes, the young percussionist will be able to concentrate on perfecting techniques for each instrument. The most notable facet of the piece is the variety of dynamics. The dynamic levels continuously fluctuate, never maintaining one volume for more than four measures at a time. Tom Siwe has done an excellent job of providing a variety of articulations (staccato, tenuto, et al.), a concept that is often omitted from percussion method books at the novice level. “Latin Sextet” is masterfully constructed composition. It will serve as a wonderful, didactic resource for the percussion educator who is searching for a well-written composition that will cover a variety of percussion instruments and their respective techniques, as well as overall musical concepts.
-Eric Willie
