Ishii-Fourteen Percussions (2S)-P OS - Product Information
"Fourteen Percussions" is a publication exclusive to Steve Weiss Music. Ishii leaves the instrumentation to the discretion of the performers. He suggest an ideal instrumentation as well as suitable alternatives. It was composed in 2000 near the end of Ishii's productive span as a composer. The work goes through a complete array of compositional ideas and emotional motives. This work would be excellent for any recital situation with it's fourteen minute duration.
"There is a similarity between the title of "Thirteen Drums" my humble work composed for percussion solo some 15 years ago, and of this "Fourteen Percussions". Moreover the numbers in the former (13) and the latter (7x2=14) form the structural nucleus of both pieces. In this way, though the concepts are similar, the conspicuous differences between the compositions lie in their tones. By contrast to Thirteen Drums, Fourteen Percussions contains tonal mutations of 14 different percussion instruments ranging from high pitched to low pitched ones and those variations are of a value structurally equal to the transformation in rhythm.
In Fourteen Percussions the tones change through a playing style of just striking and hitting fourteen different percussion instruments. They move from a simple rhythm to a complicated one and the method of rendition goes from a fundamental style of percussion playing to a complicated contemporary one. "
-Maki Ishii
Number of Players: 2
Difficulty: Grade 5
Instrumentation:
Player I: Mokugyo, Slit Drum, Conga, Tamburo, Cowbell, Cidelo Ihos, Platten Gong
Player II: Atarigane, Cidelo Ihos, Mokusho, Wood Block, Bongo, African Drum, Tibet Crotales
Maki Ishii was born on May 28th, 1936 in Tokyo as the third son of Baku Ishii, the celebrated dancer and choreographer who played a pioneering role in establishing the genre of modern dance in Japan.
After studying composition and conducting from 1952 to 1958 in Tokyo he moved to Berlin where he continued his studies at the Hochschule für Musik Berlin (West), as student of e.g. Josef Rufer and Boris Blacher. In 1962 he returned to Japan. In 1969 he was invited to Berlin by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) to take part in their "Berliner Künstlerprogramm". Since then he has been active there as well as in Japan as a composer and conductor.
His compositions have been performed all over the world. Concerts as "Composer's Portrait of Maki Ishii" have been held in Paris at the Festival d'Automne 1978, at the Berliner Festwochen 1981, in Geneva at the Été Japonais 1983, in Tokyo at the Music Today 1987, at the Suntory Music Foundation Orchestral Concert 1989, at the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra 1990, in the Hague at the Residentie Orchestra 1992, to name but a few.
"There is a similarity between the title of "Thirteen Drums" my humble work composed for percussion solo some 15 years ago, and of this "Fourteen Percussions". Moreover the numbers in the former (13) and the latter (7x2=14) form the structural nucleus of both pieces. In this way, though the concepts are similar, the conspicuous differences between the compositions lie in their tones. By contrast to Thirteen Drums, Fourteen Percussions contains tonal mutations of 14 different percussion instruments ranging from high pitched to low pitched ones and those variations are of a value structurally equal to the transformation in rhythm.
In Fourteen Percussions the tones change through a playing style of just striking and hitting fourteen different percussion instruments. They move from a simple rhythm to a complicated one and the method of rendition goes from a fundamental style of percussion playing to a complicated contemporary one. "
-Maki Ishii
Number of Players: 2
Difficulty: Grade 5
Instrumentation:
Maki Ishii was born on May 28th, 1936 in Tokyo as the third son of Baku Ishii, the celebrated dancer and choreographer who played a pioneering role in establishing the genre of modern dance in Japan.
After studying composition and conducting from 1952 to 1958 in Tokyo he moved to Berlin where he continued his studies at the Hochschule für Musik Berlin (West), as student of e.g. Josef Rufer and Boris Blacher. In 1962 he returned to Japan. In 1969 he was invited to Berlin by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) to take part in their "Berliner Künstlerprogramm". Since then he has been active there as well as in Japan as a composer and conductor.
His compositions have been performed all over the world. Concerts as "Composer's Portrait of Maki Ishii" have been held in Paris at the Festival d'Automne 1978, at the Berliner Festwochen 1981, in Geneva at the Été Japonais 1983, in Tokyo at the Music Today 1987, at the Suntory Music Foundation Orchestral Concert 1989, at the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra 1990, in the Hague at the Residentie Orchestra 1992, to name but a few.
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