Scavenger Music
General Info
Year: 1996
Duration: c. 7:30
Difficulty: II (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: C. Alan Publications
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $29.00; (digital) - $29.00 | Score Only (digital) - $10.00
Instrumentation
Full Score
Percussion I-II-III-IV-V (5 players), including:
- Bread Pan
- Cans (4: 3 large graduated and 1 large)
- Cardboard Boxes (2: small and large)
- Flower Pot
- Frying Pans (2: small and large)
- Hole Cut Saw Blade
- Junk Chimes
- Junk Gong
- Melodic Wrenches (4)
- Metal Can
- Metal Mixing Bowl
- Pie Pan
- Plastic Bucket
- Plastic Trash Can
- Spoon Chimes
- Steel Pipes (4: 2 graduated, 1 regular and 1 large)
- Suspended Wrench
- Wood Chime
- Wood Lengths (5: 3 graduated, 1 small and 1 large)
- Wrench Chimes
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
This piece requires the players to do some of their own “scavenging” to find and create all of the instruments necessary to perform it. It also features fairly simple rhythms throughout (limited to quarter notes and eighth notes).
- Program Note from publisher
Media
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
- University of Redlands (Calif.) Percussion Ensemble (Bill Schlitt, director) – November 2020 (Virtual)
- University of California, Los Angeles, Percussion Ensemble (Theresa Dimond, director) – June 2020 (Virtual)
Works for Winds by This Composer
- Arcanical Plains (2021)
- The Manes Scroll (1984/2010)
- Marimba Quartet No. 2
- Parallel Isometry (2011)
- Scavenger Music (1996)
- The Titanic Days
- Vespertine Formations
Resources
- Deane, C. (1996). Scavenger Music: Percussion Ensemble [score]. C. Alan Publications: Greensboro, N.C.
- Perusal score