Amy-Cycle for Six Percussions(S)-P/2V/2X OS

Cycle was composed for Percussions de Strasbourg in 1966 and was premiered in Venice in 1967. This work is constructed in six movements.

-Parenthese 1
-Parenthese 2
-Developpement Central
-Antiphonie
-Variation
-Frontispice

Number of Players: 6
Difficulty: Grade 5+
Instrumentation:

1. Vibraphone, orchestra bells, tam tams(2), triangles(2), woodblocks(5), bongos(4), tom- toms(2) 2. Vibraphone, orchestra bells, tam tams(2), temple blocks(5), maracas, guiro, marimba, xylophone 3. Suspended cymbals(5), gongs(4), marimba, temple blocks(5), xylophone 4. Cow bells(set of high), triangles(2), susp. cymbals(3), claves, log drums(six pitches), bongos(4), snare drum 5. Cow bells(set of medium), tom-toms(4), bongos(4), tumbas(2), tam tams(2), tubular chimes, claves, maracas, guiro 6. Susp. cymbals(4), woodblocks(2), maracas, crotales(one oct.), bongos, tom-toms(2), tumbas(2)

Born in 1936 in Paris, Gilbert Amy won a first prize in the Concours General de Philosophie. He then decided to turn definitively towards music and entered the Paris Conservatoire, where he was the pupil of Simone Ple-Caussade, Henriette Puig Roget, Darius Milhaud and Olivier Messiaen. A few years later he met Pierre Boulez who commissioned from him "Mouvements", which was first performed at the Domaine Musical en 1958. From then on, his works were performed in all the leading venues for contemporary music : Donaueschingen, Darmstadt, Venice, Royan, Berlin, Warsaw, etc..