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Mass
Contents
General Info
Year: 2004
Duration: c. 14:00
Difficulty: VI (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Osti Music
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $95.00
Instrumentation
Full Score
Timpani (also plays Maracas and Tom-toms (4))
Percussion I-II-III-IV-V (5 players), including:
- Bass Drum
- China Cymbals (2)
- Crash Cymbals (2: suspended)
- Crotales (2: A4 and D5)
- Hi-hat
- Marimbas (2)
- Shaker
- Splash Cymbals (2)
- Tam-tam
- Tom-toms (4)
- Vibraphone
- Xylophone
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
My latest collaboration with Robert Battle, Mass, is for six percussionists -- three mallet players and three "drummers" (bass drum, timpani, etc.). It was my first whole-hearted attempt at writing a minimalist piece, and I learned that it's a difficult style to do well! (Try to write a 14-minute piece with extremely limited materials, but keep it interesting, and develop some kind of overarching drama!) It starts extremely slowly and quietly, and builds to one final explosion at the end. Robert's choreography was, I think, his best yet.
-Program Note by composer
For M.R.G.
- Program Note from score
Commercial Discography
None discovered thus far.
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
- George Mason University Percussion Ensemble (Carla Lackey, soloist) - 29 April 2017
- The Julliard School (New York City, N.Y.) – 11 November 2004 *Premiere Performance*
Works for Winds by this Composer
Adaptable Music
- Let Me Be Frank with You (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
- Night on Fire (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Ambrose) (2013/2021)
- Sheltering Sky (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Dunnigan) (2012/2020)
- Strange Humors (Flex instrumentation) (2006/2020)
- This Cruel Moon (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Dunnigan) (2017/2020)
All Wind Works
- Antique Violences (2017)
- Asphalt Cocktail (2009)
- Aurora Awakes (2009)
- Clocking (2007)
- Concerto for Soprano Sax and Wind Ensemble (2007)
- Damn (1998)
- Drum Music: Concerto for Percussion (2011)
- Fanfare For Full Fathom Five (2015)
- Foundry (2011)
- Foundry (Flex instrumentation) (2011/2020)
- The Frozen Cathedral (2012)
- Harvest: Concerto for Trombone (2009)
- High Wire (2012)
- Hymn to a Blue Hour (2010)
- Hymn to a Blue Hour (2010/2021)
- Kingfishers Catch Fire (2007)
- Let Me Be Frank with You (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
- Lightning Field (2015)
- Liminal (2016)
- The Night Garden (2017)
- Night on Fire. See: The Soul Has Many Motions
- Places We Can No Longer Go (2018)
- (redacted) (2013)
- Redline Tango (2004)
- The Rumor of a Secret King (2017/2018)
- The Rumor of a Secret King (arr. Blegen) (2017/2018/2020)
- Sacred Spaces (2019)
- Sasparilla (2005)
- Sheltering Sky (2012)
- Sheltering Sky (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Dunnigan) (2012/2020)
- Snarl (2018)
- Songs from the End of the World (2015)
- The Soul Has Many Motions (2013)
- Night on Fire (2013)
- Night on Fire (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Ambrose) (2013/2021)
- Strange Humors (2006)
- Strange Humors (Flex instrumentation) (2006/2020)
- This Cruel Moon (2014/2017)
- This Cruel Moon (Flex instrumentation) (2017/2020)
- Turbine (2006)
- Turning (2007)
- Undertow (2008)
- Until the Scars (2014/2019)
- Weird Flex But OK (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
- Wine-Dark Sea (2014)
- Xerxes (2010)
Resources
- John Mackey website Accessed 27 November 2020
- Mackey, J. (2004). Mass: For 6 Percussionists, 2004 [score]. Osti Music: [Cambridge, Mass.].
- Perusal score
