Silverman-Quick Blood (SP)-2V/Cro./2M/P

Quick Blood by Adam Silverman is a rhythmically vigorous quartet centered around mallet instruments, with carefully layered combinations and hockets and a pounding bass drum feature. Silverman's first work for percussion ensemble, this music was composed in 2001 for percussionists Paul Fadoul, Matt Strauss, Douglas Wallace, and Cynthia Yeh as "Battery Four."

• Number of players: 4
• Difficulty: Advanced
• Instrumentation:
• Player 1: Marimba 1 (5 octave; shared with Player 4), large concert bass drum, triangle
• Player 2: Marimba 2 (5 octave)
• Player 3: Vibraphone 1
• Player 4: Marimba 1 (5 octave; shared with Player 1), triangle, crotales (2 octaves), xylophone, vibraphone 2