Houllif/Petercsak-Contemporary Collection for S.D.

Contemporary composers continue to make greater demands on the talents and skills of the percussionist. Never before has the percussionist been so much in the foreground of the performing ensemble. He must be a virtuosic performer capable of playing any of the demands placed on him including hose of rhythm changes, tempi, dynamic indications, phrasing, shading, and notation.

It is with this "new" percussion in mind the Contemporary Collection for Snare Drum was composed. It is the intention of the authors to expose the performer to contemporary techniques as composite and super-imposed rhythms, odd meter and multi-metric changes, metric modulation, spatial notation, music without bar lines, advanced hand/mind coordination, etc.