Mixed Ensembles

In a display of percussion virtuosity, Axiom goes through many style, meter and texture changes. The piece borrows its shifting and changing time signatures from odd-meter progressive rock – even fully giving in to a...

Commissioned by the Texas Christian University Percussion Orchestra (Brian A. West, conductor), Babylon is a programmatic work for percussion orchestra inspired by the story of “The Tower of Babel” from the...

These classic two and four-mallet solos by Harry Breuer are arranged for solo xylophone plus 3-4 marimbas accompanying. All accompaniments are easy enough for the youngest of keyboard players.Genre: Solo Xylophone with...

Bad Timing blasts through an exciting mix of rhythmic complexity, odd time grooves, and flashy keyboard playing. This challenging work will demand a high degree of ensemble cohesion while engaging audiences with its...

An earth-shaking percussion ensemble for 10 players that grooves in 7/4? Got it. Soaring mallet melodies punctuated by jagged rhythmic counterpoint? Absolutely. Solos featuring Snare, Djembe, Bongos, and Timpani so you can...

This pieces is a series of vignettes inspired by Barbara Kingsolver's novel, "The Poisonwood Bible," which narrates a combination of fictional and historical events in the first days of independence in the Congo. Three...

Barbarossa is a dramatic and exciting intermediate level piece for 11 players. It introduces multiple alternative playing techniques and will develop a strong and innate sense of 12/8 time in the performers.Genre: Percussion...

You enjoy a lot of freedom when performing Batterie Diabolique. Instrument choice is intentionally indeterminate, plus there is room for improvisation should you wish.Genre: Percussion Ensemble | # of Players: 7-9 Level:...

A short and easy piece for developing ensemble, this work has everything your students could want. Jazzy themes in the mallets are interspersed with percussive overtures in the auxiliary.Genre: Percussion Ensemble | # of...

Be That of the Wind is a piece for woodwind quintet and 8 percussionists that draws inspiration from the four tenets outlines in Sun Tzu’s The Art of War: Let your rapidity be that of the wind, your gentleness that of...

After a brief chorale-like introduction, Beaty's Brain transforms the calming main theme into a rollicking circus march.Genre: Percussion Ensemble | # of Players: 7 Level: Medium Easy | Duration: 2:30...

Berserker is an aggressive and heavy work written for advanced solo marimba and accompanied by a supporting ensemble of 5 percussionists. While not directly programmatic, the atmosphere, title, and challenge to the soloist...

Birth of a King is primarily designed as a holiday season piece. Rather than being overtly festive, it relies on contemplative understatement.Genre: Percussion Ensemble | # of Players: 6 Level: Medium | Duration: 5:00...

Black (W)Hole is an extraterrestrial introduction to the whole tone scale. Instruments weave in and out of different rhythmic layers that create a very “spacious” and eerie feel. Players experiment with alternate...

Inspired by the book "Black Elk Speaks" by John Neihardt (an oral history of Black Elk, a Sioux medicine man or Shaman), this dramatic work for 11 percussionists culminates in narrator reciting a passage from the book.Genre:...

The Black Knight was created to help fill the gap of literature for beginning percussion ensembles and is a manageable, yet dramatic piece that allows beginning percussionists the opportunity to practice their dynamic,...