By Instrumentation

Quartz Mountain draws inspiration from the breathtaking beauty of Quartz Mountain State Park in Lone Wolf, Oklahoma. The work captures the essence of the park’s twin peaks through sweeping melodic lines, crescendos,...

Queensland Offshore Railroad is an intermediate battery quartet that features brief improvised passages for each player. The quick, syncopated interplay throughout the quartet will keep players and audience members on their...

Quick Blood is a rhythmically vigorous quartet centered around mallet instruments, with carefully layered combinations and hockets and a pounding bass drum feature. Silverman’s first work for percussion ensemble, this...

Quintessential Quintets is a collection of three "drummy" pieces for 5 young percussionists. Using limited and/or flexible instrumentation, these works will help student grow as musicians while simultaneously impressing...

Quintic, meaning of the fifth degree, is an exploration of the number five within a percussion chamber ensemble. Orchestrated for five players and set in 5/4 or 5/8 throughout, the music weaves a composite melody throughout...

Radioactive Octopus was inspired by the earthquake and subsequent nuclear disaster that occurred in Japan in March of 2011. Each player represents two of the tentacles of the octopus, and a visual movement of the octopus is...

Designed to simulate a rainstorm, Rainfall employs a variety of nontraditional techniques in order to reproduce certain timbres, such as finger snaps or leg-patting. Audience participation is also encouraged to enhance the...

Rarus Felicity is an energetic, wild musical journey for percussion quintet and soloist. Drawing inspiration from its unique instrumentation, “Rarus” explores several compositional ideas to highlight the...

re: Impressions is a groovy percussion septet for 5 keyboards, drum set, and 1 multi-percussionist that is influenced instruments, styles, and sounds that feel most "at home" with the composer. Genre: Percussion Ensemble | #...

Reaching No Aim, written for nine percussionists and piano, is a story of question and answer. A conversation occurs between parts, with unisons, call and response, and a continuous weaving and dovetailing throughout. Toward...

Ready Player 4 is a collection of quartets designed to elevate the playing level of your percussionists by introducing students to ensemble playing as well as several new techniques, like thumb rolls, crush buzzes, muted...

Recitative and Scherzo is a celebration of the view of percussion instruments in their own right as musical instruments.Genre: Solo Timpani with Percussion Ensemble | # of Players: 5 + Solo Timpani Level: Medium...

Reckless, defined as a disregard for consequences or unthinking boldness, is a brash & exciting battery percussion octet with wide assortment of instruments.Genre: Percussion Ensemble | # of Players: 8 Series: Hollinden...

Reconcilable Differences is an intriguing work for solo marimba with percussion trio. The rhythmic structure of the work starts out with recurring 32nd note motives that are slow soft and undulating. As the work progress the...

Composed in 1886, the tremolo study Recuerdos de la Alhambra is without doubt Tarrega's best-known piece. This wonderful arrangement for marimbas evokes memories of the Moorish citadel located on a hill in the Spanish...

Red Koi was written using the “Minyō” scale found in Japanese music, such as Gagaku and Shomyo. The snare drum/tom part was written to emulate basic Taiko-style drumming. Red Koi represents a great opportunity to...