Ritual Music
Subtitle: For Percussion Quartet
General Info
Year: 2004 / 2005
Duration: c. 5:10
Difficulty: V (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Skidmore Percussion Publications
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $40.00
Instrumentation
Full Score
Percussion I-II-III-IV (4 players), including:
- Bass Drum
- Bongos (2)
- Brake Drum
- Congas (2)
- Crotales (2: G5 and C#5)
- Djembe
- Field Drum (low)
- Marimba (4.3 octaves)
- Snare Drum (high)
- Tambourines (4)
- Tom-toms (5)
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
Ritual Music by David Skidmore is an energetic, tribal percussion quartet that would be welcome on any chamber music concert or recital. Originally written for a dance troupe, this piece moves with a driving intensity.
- Program Note from publisher
Media
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
- Ball State University (Muncie, Ind.) Wind Symphony (unconducted) - 9 March 2021
- Cypress Woods High School (Cypress, Tx.) Percussion (Cinjin Casillas, conductor) - 2018
Works for Winds by This Composer
- Agreed. See: Aliens with Extraordinary Abilities
- Aliens with Extraordinary Abilities (2015)
- Common Patterns in Uncommon Time (2011)
- Don't Eat Your Young. See: Aliens with Extraordinary Abilities
- Donner (Percussion Octet) (2015)
- Donner (Percussion Quartet). See: Aliens with Extraordinary Abilities
- Echoes (2003)
- Fanfare for a New Audience (2009)
- In Contact (2006)
- Love Songs: Book One (2009)
- Perpetuum Mobile (2012)
- Ritual Music (2004/2005)
- Strobes (2004)
- Take Anything You Want. See: Aliens with Extraordinary Abilities
- Things May Be Changing (but Probably Not). See: Aliens with Extraordinary Abilities
- Torched and Wrecked. See: Aliens with Extraordinary Abilities
- Triptan. See: Aliens with Extraordinary Abilities
- Trying (2014)
- Unknown Times (2007)
- Whispers (2005)
Resources
- David Skidmore website Accessed 9 March 2021
- Skidmore, D. (2006). Ritual Music: For Percussion Quartet [score]. Lone Star Percussion: [s.l.].