Battery Ensembles

This exciting work for percussion quintet replicates timbres authentic to eastern drum ensembles with common western instrumentation. It offers featured moments for each player, and will be a welcome addition of new sounds...

Little Military Piece was written for young percussionists that have learned “the basics” of playing and are beginning to learn part independence and proper concert instrument techniques. This drum and...

Little Military Piece was written for young percussionists that have learned “the basics” of playing and are beginning to learn part independence and proper concert instrument techniques. This drum and...

Little Military Piece was written for young percussionists that have learned “the basics” of playing and are beginning to learn part independence and proper concert instrument techniques. This drum and...

Dave Hollinden's third percussion quartet, Locomotion, is set in four movements – Procession, Sleep Walk, Dance, and Race. The work uses a large assortment of non-pitched instruments (both found and traditional),...

Written for multi-percussion quintet, Lone Wolf brings together the shimmering metallic instruments and grounding rhythmic passages on the drums, to evoke the strength, resilience, and solitary spirit of the wolf in nature...

Make Your Voice Heard is a challenging, vibrant percussion trio that behaves more like a solo with duo accompaniment. Dedicated to a friend of the composer, the thematic material for the piece is cleverly derived from the...

The piece is a study in non-pitched loudness, and reflects a strong Afro-Caribbean influence, specifically influences of Congolese dance music and the Costa Rican version of the Calypso. The transitions are very reflective...

Merge began as an exercise in percussive hocket, where each player is given a part of the whole. This is done so in both the rhythms played in the drums and melody in the tuned pipes. The ascending and deciding lines...

Scored for tenor steel pan and battery percussion, this thrilling quintet grabs you from the opening yells, propels you into dizzying textures, and doesn't let go until the final fade-out.Genre: Percussion Ensemble | # of...

Commissioned by Dr. Brian A. West and the TCU Percussion Orchestra for the opening of the Van Cliburn Concert Hall in the beautiful new TCU Music Center, Momentum is a fanfare for non-pitched percussion ensemble in surround...

Explosive in volume and energy throughout, Napalm Basket is a tasteful, challenging, and creative percussion quartet which is also an enormous amount of fun to play.Genre: Percussion Ensemble | # of Players: 4 Level:...

Number Theory, Vol. 1 is a collection of works that link musical characteristics to other disciplines using numbers as the common thread. These works vary not only in difficulty (intending from beginning to intermediate high...

Up beat, happy tune with a soft, quiet middle section. Ideal for sharing music of a traditional holiday celebration. Appropriate for young players, high school and even college during a holiday concert.Genre: Percussion...

Of Thunder and Steel captures the destructive power of Mjölnir to create an exciting piece for intermediate percussionists.Genre: Percussion Ensemble | # of Players: 4 Series: N/A Level: Intermediate | Duration: 2:45...

Onslaught is an exciting, barbaric battery percussion quartet that is relentless from top to bottom. Four shared instrument set-ups force the performers to travel around the stage, making the piece an aural, as a well as...