Pape-Five By Five (SP)-P

Five by Five by Andy Pape for percussion duet. The title alludes to the architectural blueprint for the piece in its entirety. Each beat of the piece has, instead of the traditional four 16th notes, five 16th notes. Each measure has in turn five beats, five measures comprise a period (wavy barline). Five of these periods give way to a section (double barline), five sections comprise a session, which is to say the whole piece. In this way, there are in all five to the fifth power (3,125) 16th notes.

Duration: 9 minutes

Instrumentation:

Percussion 1 - splash cymbal, crotale, cowbell, ribbon crash, woodblock, bass drum (shared with Percussion 2), low drum, mid drum, high drum.

Percussion 2 - small Chinese cymbal, crotale, cowbell, ribbon crash, woodblock, bass drum (shared with Percussion 1), low drum, mid drum, high drum.