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Fidget
General Info
Year: 2015
Duration: c. 4:30
Difficulty: IV (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: C. Alan Publications
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $40.00
Instrumentation
Full Score
Percussion (8 players), including:
- Bells
- Chimes
- China Cymbals
- Concert Tom (4)
- Hi-Hat
- Kick Drum
- Marimba (2)
- Shakers
- Snare Drum
- Splash Cymbal
- Suspended Cymbal
- Tam-Tam
- Timpani
- Triangle
- Vibraphone
- Wind Chimes
- Wood Block
- Xylophone
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
Featuring a balanced ensemble of four keyboard and four battery percussionists, Fidget borrows a rhythm from the agogo bell and cowbell part in Daughtrey's popular percussion quintet Shock Factor. Portions of this motive appears throughout the piece, sometimes as the focal point and sometimes as an accompanying figure. The piece features driving rhythms and memorable melodies from beginning to end.
- Program Note from publisher
While the rhythm is only fleeting in the original work, it has stuck with the composer since he wrote the piece 10 years ago. Set in 4/4 time, it has a twitchy/fidgety/stuttering feel that starts and restarts, stumbling over itself in its brief two-bar duration.
- Program Note from Creek Valley Middle School Honor Winds concert program, 16 December 2016
Commissioned by a consortium of high schools organized by Wayne Lu of South Hardin High School (Iowa).
- Program Note from score
Media
State Ratings
- Texas: Percussion ensemble I
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
- Brown University (Providence, R.I.) Percussion Ensemble (Kevin Plouffe, conductor) - 22 April 2022
- Creek Valley Middle School (Lewisville, Texas) Honor Winds (Tanner Trigg, conductor) - 16 December 2016 (2016 Midwest Clinic)
- McMurry University (Abilene, Texas) Percussion Ensemble (Joshua Knight, conductor) – 2015
Works for Winds by This Composer
Adaptable Music
- Apollo's Chariot (Flex instrumentation) (2007/2021)
- Appalachian Air (Flex instrumentation) (2003/2021)
- Dark Matter (Flex instrumentation) (2016/2020)
- Downtown Dash (Flex instrumentation) (2009/2020)
- Such Small Things (Flex instrumentation) (2017/2020)
- Ye Merry Fantasy (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
All Wind Works
- Apollo's Chariot (Flex instrumentation) (2007/2021)
- Appalachian Air (Flex instrumentation) (2003/2021)
- As Above, So Below (2017)
- Black Rainbow (2014)
- Blaze (2021)
- Bounce (2015)
- Chasing Infinity (2018)
- Dark Matter (2016)
- Dark Matter (Flex instrumentation) (2016/2020)
- Downtown Dash (2009)
- Downtown Dash (Flex instrumentation) (2009/2020)
- Ellipsis (2010)
- Fidget (2015)
- From the Ashes (2017)
- Gate City Snapshot (2012)
- Imagining World (2010)
- Immortal Dream (2006)
- Irish Washerwoman (2006)
- Legend of the Sword (Daughtrey) (2007)
- Limerick Daydreams (2006)
- Mercury Rising (2005)
- Point of Reckoning (as arranger) (2015)
- Power Struggle (2009)
- Sensus Vitae (2013)
- Shine On! (2017)
- Silent Canyons (2014)
- Silver Moon (2007)
- Spiraling Light (2016)
- StarCatchers (2016)
- Such Small Things (2017)
- Such Small Things (Flex instrumentation) (2017/2020)
- Through the Horizon (2007)
- True Things (2017)
- Twitch (2016)
- Water Spirits (2019)
- Ye Merry Fantasy (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
Resources
- Daughtrey, N. (2015). Fidget [score]. C. Alan Publications: Greensboro, N.C.