Gonzalez-Blur (SP)-B/2V/Cro./C/X/2M/4T/P

Blur by Cesar Gonzalez is a med-advanced percussion ensemble piece, featuring a large sound palette and an exciting, driving rhythmic force. As the title suggests, the texture of the piece moves from thin and transparent to thick and blurred, with many different instruments playing their independent lines simultaneously. In addition to standard percussion instruments and techniques, Blur calls for an array of auxiliary instruments and extended techniques, adding to the variety of sound colors Gonzales achieves.

This piece comes as a professionally printed and bound score and includes individual parts in PDF format for printing or for tablet viewing.

• Number of players: 10
• Difficulty: Intermediate
• Instrumentation:
• Player 1: Glockenspiel, finger cymbals, bell tree
• Player 2: Xylophone, high bongo, kick drum, rainstick
• Player 3: Vibraphone 1, low sizzle cymbal (share w/Player 5)
• Player 4: Vibraphone 2, suspended cymbal
• Player 5: Marimba 1 (4.3 octave), low sizzle cymbal (share w/Player 3), China cymbal (share w/Player 6)
• Player 6: Marimba 1 (5 octave), shekere, China cymbal (share w/Player 5), egg shakers
• Player 7: 4 timpani, triangle
• Player 8: Crotales (low octave), suspended cymbal, mark tree, egg shaker, slapstick, finger cymbals
• Player 9: Chimes, mark tree (share w/Player 8), bass drum, tam-tam, high sizzle cymbal (share w/Player 10)
• Player 10: suspended cymbal, medium China cymbal, high sizzle cymbal, ride cymbal, ice bell, mark tree, shekere (share w/Player 6), Triangle, rainstick, bass drum (share w/Player 9), tam-tam (share w/Player 9)