Dietz-Nocturne-C/P OS
Dietz-Nocturne-C/P OS
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Dietz-Nocturne-C/P OS

Steve Weiss Music SKU: 1363
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Nocturne is a 15 minute work for solo percussionist. The piece is multi-metric and draws its material through rhythmic permutations of the main theme. The chimes are used to play "serial" melodies based on the southern hymn "My Song in the Night.

Number of Players: 1
Difficulty: Grade 5
Instrumentation:
  • Player I:Marimba


    • Brett William Dietz (b. 1972) is Assistant Professor of Percussion at the Louisiana State University School of Music.  He is the music director of Hamiruge (the LSU Percussion Group).  He earned the Bachelor of Music in Percussion and the Master of Music in Composition/Theory from the Mary Pappert School of Music at Duquesne University. In 2004, Dietz earned his Doctorate of Music from Northwestern University.  He has studied percussion with Jack DiIanni, Andrew Reamer, Stanley Leonard, and Michael Burritt while his principal composition teachers include Joseph W. Jenkins, David Stock, and Jay Alan Yim.

    Product Info

    SKU 1363

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    Customer Reviews

    Excellent Piece

    Rating
    Posted by
    Daniel
    Date Posted
    09/26/2011

    The instrumentation for this work is: 4 bongos, 2 congas, concert bass drum, small tambourine, tibetan jing cymbals (mounted as a hi hat), log drum (2 pitches), 4 prepared cowbells, tubular bells, prayer bells, calves and voice. This is a challenging work that uses intense static units of polyrhythmic patterns that vary slightly in each bar, with vocal shouts interjecting. The different drumming sections are separated by serial tone clusters on the tubular bells and contrasting material on the cowbells and log drums. As the different sections develop they also begin to overlap until they are all occurring simultaneously. This leads to the closing coda at which point the southern hymn "My Song in the Night" is presented, although it is surrounded by the tone clusters from earlier in the work. This is a truly remarkable piece that will hopefully become a standard in the repertoire.