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Diabolic Variations
Subtitle: Mallet Ensemble with Timpani
This work bears the designation Opus 25.
General Info
Year: 1986
Duration: 9:45
Difficulty: V (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: OU Percussion Press
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $60.00
Instrumentation
Full Score
Timpani
Percussion I-IX (9 players), including:
- Bells
- Chimes
- Crotales
- Marimba I-II-III-IV (I, II & III 4.3 octave; IV 5.0 octave)
- Vibraphone
- Xylophone
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
Scored for nine keyboard percussion plus timpani, Helble's fine work builds upon his keen understanding and experience in writing sophisticated marimba compositions. A beautifully tonal piece, Diabolic Variations requires outstanding technique and a great deal of musical sensitivity from all ten players.
- Program Note from publisher
Commissioned by University of Oklahoma Percussion Orchestra, Richard C. Gipson, conductor.
- Program Note from score
Media
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
- Texas Christian University (Fort Worth) Percussion Orchestra (Richard C. Gipson, conductor) - 14 November 2019
Works for Winds by This Composer
- Antiphonal Fanfare and Fantasia
- Carpathian Rhapsody
- Christmas Oratotorio (Large Wind Ensemble)
- Christmas Oratotorio (Small Wind Ensemble)
- Concertare (2001)
- Concerto for Marimba and Percussion Ensemble
- Crucifixus
- Diabolic Variations (1986)
- Dragon of Wyckham (2006)
- Galop Brillant
- Heroic Fanfare
- Hypnos I
- Hypnos II
- Legend of Faust
- March from Symphonic Variations
- March Suite
- Memorare
- Multum in Parvis (2016)
- Night Music
- Passacaglia (1987)
- Prelude and Rondo alla marcia (2008)
- Sonare
- S.S. Ouran Medan
- Triptych: Three Poems of J.W. von Goethe
Resources
- Helble, R. (1986). Diabolic Variations : Mallet Ensemble with Timpani [score]. OU Percussion Press: Norman, Okla.