Gottry-Eldorado (2S)-P/BVX

Drawn from the poem by Edgar Allan Poe of the same title, Eldorado is a setting of this story for bass voice and non-pitched multiple percussion duet. So as to highlight the text without restricting the idiomatic character of the percussion instruments, the voice is often orchestrated over silence as the percussion part provides both a stylistic context in the opening and interludes as well as conversational responses throughout the verses.

Number of players: 2
Difficulty: Intermediate

Instrumentation

Player 1: Bass voice
Players 2: Bass drum., snare drum, djembe, bongos, crash cymbal