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Trasumanar, fro twelve percussionists and piano, is score for 32 different instruments and specifies a spatial arrangement which creates a sense of acoustic motion among the diverse instrumental groupings: drums dominate the backstage, woods-stage right, metals – stage left, and th pitch instruments in the front.
Trasumanar is a word coined by Dante to describe the experience of raising above the human state. This work was written for The New Jersey Percussiin Ensemble and it's director, Raymond DesRoches.
Number of Players: 13
Difficulty: Grade 6
Instrumentation:
Player I: Glockenspiel, Crotales, 6 Cowbells, Suspended Cymbal, Hi-Hat
Player II: Glockenspiel, 6 Almglocken, 6 Brake Drums, Chinese Cymbal, Med. Tam-Tam, Suspended Cymbal, Hi-Hat, Bell Tree
Player III: 5 Temple Blocks, Slapstick, Maracas, Claves, Castanets, Med. Triangle, Suspended Cymbal, Hi-Hat
Player IV: 5 Temple Blocks, 4 Wood Blocks, Maracas, Claves, Castanets, Med. Tam-Tam, Suspended Cymbal, Hi-Hat
Player V: Marimba, 4 Wood Blocks, Maracas, Claves, Castanets, Finger Cymbals, Low Triangle, Suspended Cymbal, Hi-Hat
Player VI: Vibraphone, Chimes, Sizzle Cymbal (also plays Marimba of player V)
Player VII: Piano
Player VIII: Marimba, Maracas, Claves, Castanets, Small Tam-Tam, Suspended Cymbal, Hi-Hat
Player IX: Vibraphone, Finger Cymbals, High Triangle, Sizzle Cymbal (also plays Marimba of player VIII
Player X: 4 Timpani, 2 Timbales, 2 Bongos, Tambourine, Finger Cymbals, Small Tam-Tam, Hi-Hat
Player XI: 2 Tom-Toms, Military Drum, 2 Timbales, Snare Drum, String Drum, Tambourine, Med. Tam-Tam, Hi-Hat (also plays Marimba of player X)
Player XII: 4 Timpani, Tambourine, Large Tam-Tam, Hi-Hat
Player XIII: 2 Bass Drums, 4 Tom-Toms, Tambourine, Finger Cymbals, Large Tam-Tam, Hi-Hat
A native of Kenosha, Wisconsin, Chester Biscardi now lives in New York City, and is Director of the Music Program at Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, New York, where he holds the William Schuman Chair in Music. He is a winner of the Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome, an honor he shares with an elite group of American composers including Samuel Barber, Aaron Copland, Lukas Foss, and Elliott Carter.
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