A rhythm played on a metallic pipe runs all the way through Brian Blume's percussion quintet Persistence, while the other players groove and play around it in a number of meters. It's catchy enough for a general audience, but interesting enough for undergrad players.
Metallic and drummy accents constantly mix it up with overlapping marimba patterns. Persistence ships as a professionally spiral-bound score with a CD containing individual parts in PDF format.
Difficulty: Medium +
Duration: 5:00
Instrumentation:
- 4.3 Octave Marimbas (2), Low Octave Crotales
- Trashy Metal, Resonant Metal, Semi-Resonant Metal
- Small Metal Pipe, Ribbon Crasher, China Cymbal
- Tam-Tam, Concert Bass Drum, Concert Toms (3)
- Sleigh Bells, Wind Chimes, Small Shaker
