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Enchantment - Matt Moore [DIGITAL SET]
Genre: Percussion Ensemble
# of Players: 5
Level: Medium | Duration: 3:00
Publisher: C. Alan Publications | Copyright: 2020
Download mp3 | Click on images to left for score sample
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$29.00
Item #:
27280D
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Notes & Instrumentation
Magic awaits around every corner! Enchantment for percussion quintet is written for a developing percussion ensemble who is ready to explore a deeper level of musicality. With an effective musical story in advance of its simpler technical challenges, this piece is sure to leave the audience spellbound!
Genre: Percussion Ensemble | # of Players: 5
Level: Medium | Duration: 3:00
Instrumentation
Bells/High Woodblock
Vibraphone/Medium Woodblock
Marimba 1 (4-octave)*
Marimba 2 (4-octave)*
Timpani (4 drums)/Suspended Cymbal
*Marimba 1 & 2 can share a single 4-octave instrument
Program Notes
Commissioned by Ray Hilley and the Wilson Middle School Band for the 2020 Music for All Festival, Enchantment for percussion quintet is written for a developing percussion ensemble. This piece serves to teach simpler rhythms and note patterns while giving listening responsibilities to each performer across the group and providing opportunity for many sensitive musical moments and long lyrical lines. In the early stages of composing, I was struck by the simple effectiveness of a falling step-wise motion and used this melodic fragment as the composition’s core.-M.M.
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"Enchantment" for easy/intermediate percussion ensemble
World Premiere of "Enchantment", commissioned by Ray Hilley and the Wilson Middle School Band, Haslet TX. Performed Spring 2020.
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Product Reviews
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Percussive Notes New Literature Review
With this three-minute percussion ensemble piece for beginning players, Matt Moore has written music that is simple in its presentation, but complex in terms of the musical and performance “lessons” that will be learned by the players. While all the mallet parts can be played with two mallets, percussionists will be challenged by playing overlapping sixteenth-note patterns, and performing cascading melodic material that emerges from the ensemble texture. Additionally, rhythmic material is routinely passed between all players in the ensemble, which will serve to sharpen the listening skills of the performers.
Built primarily around B-flat minor (with hints at B-flat major and F major), the melodic and harmonic material establishes a tonal foundation, then allows other instruments to dance around on top, emphasizing various portions of the scale without being obvious. Moore also successfully breaks up patterns by interjecting rhythmic punctuations that seamlessly bind together major sections of the piece. Multiple performance techniques are also utilized, including dead strokes and stick clicks. All in all, this is a teaching piece that is written from a standpoint of musical maturity and depth.
Joshua D. Smith
PERCUSSIVE NOTES
VOL. 59, NO. 3, JUNE 2021 Joshua D. Smith on Jun 29th 2022
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