Dietz-All That is Left (SP)-B/2V/C/Cro,/X/4M/4T/P

I wrote All That Is Left during my sabbatical from teaching in the fall of 2022. The piece was premiered the following spring by Hamiruge – The LSU Percussion Group. After living through the pandemic of 2020 and my mother’s suicide in 2021, it finally dawned on me that I had been living most of my life in a state of fear. The title of the composition is a play on the "Litany Against Fear" from Frank Herbert’s novel, Dune. “I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it is gone past, I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.” I will be all that is left.

- Brett Dietz

Additional Information:

• Number of players: 12
• Difficulty: Intermediate/advanced
• Instrumentation:
• Player 1: Crotales, glockenspiel
• Player 2: Chimes, xylophone
• Player 3: Vibraphone 1
• Player 4: Vibraphone 2
• Player 5: Marimba 1: (4 octave)
• Player 6: Marimba 2: (4 octave)
• Player 7: Marimba 3: (4 octave)
• Player 8: Marimba 4: (5 octave)
• Player 9: Timpani: 4 drums
• Player 10: 2 Bongos, 2 concert toms (lower than bongos), sleigh bells, tambourine, sizzle cymbal
• Player 11: Hi-hat, splash cymbal, wind chimes, woodblock, claves, low tom, suspended cymbal
• Player 12: Tam-tam, triangle, 2 suspended cymbals, concert bass drum, anvil