Belet-Roundabout: Four Canons and Something Else (SP)-P - Product Information
Round about: Four Canons and Something Else was commissioned in 1999 by Anthony J. Cirone for performance by the San Jose University Percussion Ensemble. The nine percussionist are grouped into three indefinite pitched trios of wood , metal and skin. The performers are invited to select their own instruments and beaters within their assigned trio.
The composition is organized into five movements, each internally structured using recursive iterations of the Golden Mean Ration.
Number of Players: 9
Difficulty: Grade 5
Instrumentation:
Players I-III: Metal Instruments of Indefinite Pitch
Players IV-VI: Wood Instruments of Indefinite Pitch
Players VII-IX: Skin Instruments of Indefinite Pitch
Brian Belet is Music Systems Area Coordinator and Associate Professor within the School of Music and Dance at San Jose State University, and a Research Associate with the Center for Research in Electro-Acoustic Music. Belet earned the degree of Doctor of Musical Arts in Composition from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1990, with an emphasis on algorithmic composition and software synthesis, and with a dissertation on the music of James Tenney.
The composition is organized into five movements, each internally structured using recursive iterations of the Golden Mean Ration.
Number of Players: 9
Difficulty: Grade 5
Instrumentation:
Brian Belet is Music Systems Area Coordinator and Associate Professor within the School of Music and Dance at San Jose State University, and a Research Associate with the Center for Research in Electro-Acoustic Music. Belet earned the degree of Doctor of Musical Arts in Composition from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1990, with an emphasis on algorithmic composition and software synthesis, and with a dissertation on the music of James Tenney.
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