Pen an Tonic with Seven
General Info
Year: 2009
Duration: c. 3:45
Difficulty: IV (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Row-Loff Productions
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $30.00 | Score Only (print) - $15.00
Instrumentation
Full Score
Percussion (5 players), including:
- Bongos
- Brake Drum
- China Cymbals
- Glass Bottle
- Hi-Hat
- Marimba
- Mark Tree
- Mounted Jam or Temple Blocks (2)
- Ride Cymbal
- Shakers, small
- Snare Drum
- Suspended Cymbal (2)
- Timpani
- Tom-Tom (3)
- Triangle
- Vibraphone
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
Pen an Tonic with Seven is a groove-oriented piece that utilizes the pentatonic scale and explores the possibilities of the number seven within various time signatures and note groupings. It asks the percussion section to play on over twenty different instruments, including two musicians playing four-mallet keyboard instruments.
- Program Note from publisher
Media
State Ratings
- New York: Category 410.6
- Missouri: Percussion. Ensemble. Grade A
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
- Baylor University (Waco, Texas) Concert Band (Steve Dailey, conductor; Caleb Evans, percussion) – 29 April 2018
- Percussion Ensemble Herrenberg (Poland) – 2013
Works for Winds by This Composer
- All Jingled Up
- Balloonology
- Barnstormer
- Barnyard Boogie
- Linus and Lucy (as transcriber) (1964/2009)
- Pen an Tonic with Seven (2009)
- Stratus
- Sushi Funk (1993)
- Walk Like an Egyptian (as arranger) (1986/)
Resources
- Baylor University Concert Band concert program, 29 April 2018
- Crockarell, C. (2009). Pen an Tonic with Seven [score]. Row-Loff Productions: Nashville, Tenn.