Blur (Gonzalez)
General Info
Year: 2019 / 2020
Duration: c. 4:15
Difficulty: IV (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Tapspace Publications
Cost: Score (print) and Parts (digital) - $40.00; (digital) - $40.00 | Score Only (print) - $12.00; (digital) - $12.00
Instrumentation
Full Score
Timpani
Percussion I-IX (9 players), including:
- Bass Drums (2: pedal and concert)
- Bell Tree
- Bongo (high)
- Chimes
- China Cymbals (2: medium and large)
- Crotales (lower octave only (higher octave optional); bow required)
- Egg Shakers (2)
- Finger Cymbals (2 sets)
- Glockenspiel (extended low range required (low F3))
- Ice Bell
- Marimba I-II (I 4.3 octaves; II 5.0 octaves)
- Mark Trees (2 sets)
- Rainsticks (2)
- Ride Cymbal
- Shekere
- Sizzle Cymbals (2: high and low)
- Slapstick
- Suspended Cymbals (3)
- Tam-tam
- Triangles (2)
- Vibraphone I-II
- Xylophone (3.5 octaves)
Errata
In Score and Parts:
- Marimba I, m.32-35: Top staff passage should be in treble clef as written
- Marimba I, m.37-38: Passage should be in treble clef as written
- Potential errata noted by Matthew LeFebvre
Program Notes
Blur features a large sound palette and an exciting, driving rhythmic force. As the title suggests, the texture of the piece moves from thin and transparent to thick and blurred, with many different instruments playing their independent lines simultaneously.
- Program Note from publisher
Blur was commissioned for the Winston Churchill High School Percussion Ensemble from San Antonio, Texas, under the direction of Colton Bean who premiered the piece at the 2019 Midwest Band and Orchestra Clinic in Chicago, Illinois. Written for ten percussionists, it is designed to be colorful and rhythmically driven throughout. The work centers around around several rhythmic motifs and flourishes of harmony and texture creating a wash of musical sonorities.
- Program Note from score
Media
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
- University of California, Los Angeles, Percussion Ensemble (Theresa Dimond, conductor) – 20 November 2022
- Winston Churchill Percussion Ensemble (San Antonio, Tex.) (Colton Bean, conductor) – 2019
Works for Winds by This Composer
- America the Beautiful (as arranger) (1882/)
- Blur (2019/2020)
- Rhapsody No. 1 (2013)
- Rhapsody No. 2 (2013)