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Head Talk
Subtitle: A Quintet for Drums without Shells
General Info
Year: 1987 / 1996
Duration: c. 9:10
Difficulty: IV (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Innovative Percussion
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $31.00
Instrumentation
Full Score
Percussion (5 players), including:
- Bongo heads(6", 8")
- Bottom snare drum heads(14", 15"),
- Coated head, 14"
- Coated PTS pretuned heads (10"bright, 22"bass drum, 10"dark, 12"mellow, 14"mellow, 16"dark)
- Paper heads (5 sets) (14", 15"),
- Pinstripe heads (10", 14", 16")
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
Mark Ford's Head Talk provides the percussion quintet with a dose of sophisticated comic relief. The equipment necessary is somewhat unusual: six pretuned heads--ranging in size from a 10 to a 22; a used 14 snare head; two bongo heads; one 14 coated head; two Pinstripe heads; and five performer-prepared papered-heads for the surprise ending (each performer smashing the drumhead over the head of the drummer!). The five performers must have or develop a controlled sense of humor and must theatrically play off each other. The performers sit on the stage in a semi-circle, and Head Talk starts with the pretuned heads being twirled on stage. The opening rhythmic motive has a definitive rock-samba groove to it, and each performer ends up imitating the opening motive.
- Program Note by Jim Lambert, Percussive Notes, April 1996
Media
State Ratings
- Missouri: Percussion Ensemble Grade A
- Ohio: 651 – Percussion Ens A
- Texas: Percussion ensemble class 1
Performances
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- Sunderman Conservatory (Gettysburg, Penn.) Percussion Ensemble – 18 April 2020 (Performance scheduled, but concert cancelled)
- University of South Carolina (Columbia) Percussion Players – 2017
Works for Winds by This Composer
- Cabasa! (2019)
- Head Talk (1987/1996)
- IE2 (2018)
- Marimba Concerto for Wind Ensemble (2022)
- My Friend Sriji (arr. Chapman)
- One-Eyed Jacks (1996)
- A Promise for Emily
- Przebudzenie (2016/2017)
- Stubernic Fantasy (2012)
- The Surface of Life
Resources
- Ford, M. (1987). Head Talk: A Quintet for Drums without Shells [score]. Innovative Percussion Publications: Nashville, Tenn.)
- Mark Ford website Accessed 18 April 2020