Whispers

David Skidmore

David Skidmore

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Subtitle: For 9 Percussionists

General Info

Year: 2005
Duration: c. 10:00
Difficulty: (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Keyboard Percussion Publications
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $60.00

Instrumentation

Full Score
Timpani
Percussion I-IX (9 players), including:

• Bass Drum
• China Cymbal
• Crotales
• Elephant Bells
• Glockenspiel
• Maracas
• Marimba I-II-III-IV (4 players on 2 marimbas; both 5.0 octaves)
• Nipple Gongs (4: tuned to F, A-flat, C and E)
• Tam-tam
• Tom-toms (6: tuned to C-sharp, D-sharp, E, F-sharp, G-sharp and A)
• Vibraphone I-II
• Wind Chimes (glass)
• Wind Gongs (2)

Errata

None discovered thus far.

Program Notes

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Awards

• Percussive Arts Society Composition Contest, 2005, 1st Prize

Media

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State Ratings

None discovered thus far.

Performances

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• University of Kentucky (Lexington) Percussion Ensemble (James Campbell, conductor) – 7 April 2020

Works for Winds by This Composer

• Agreed. See: Aliens with Extraordinary Abilities
• Aliens with Extraordinary Abilities (2015)
  • Torched and Wrecked
  • Agreed
  • Take Anything You Want
  • Donner
  • Don't Eat Your Young
  • Things May Be Changing (but Probably Not)
  • Triptan
• 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 (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

• Skidmore, D. (2005). Whispers: for 9 Percussionists [score]. Keyboard Percussion Publications: Ashbury Park, N.J.