Hodkinson-Drawings Set #9 for Percussion Trio-P

Drawings: Set No.9 by Sydney Hodkinson for percussion trio. This is the ninth in a series of short, multi-movement works composed since 1960. The media of the Drawings range from youth string orchestra to small chamber music combinations; sets numbered 1, 3, and 4 use percussion instruments extensively.

The three dances of set No. 9 are brief and straightforward etchings brushed out for a very limited sound palette, with each of the three players restricted to roughly two or three instruments only for each movement. The short vocal text used - an aberration of the Dantean original -("all ye who enter here do so at the risk of your very life") is extracted from the writings of the English novelist E. M. Forster, with whose work Hodkinson was involved at the time. The Drawings, Set No.9 were written for the Blackearth Percussion Group of Cincinnati, Ohio.


Instrumentation:

Player 1 - Claves (small), Snare Drum, 2 Tom-toms, 2 Cymbals (24", 20"), Wood Plank

Player 2 - Claves (medium), 2 Tom-toms, Small Bass Drum, Small Gong, 2 Cymbals (13", 15"), Wood Plank

Player 3 - Claves (large), 2 Tom-toms, Large Tam-tam, 2 Cymbals (medium/sizzle, 18"), Wood Plank