Scherzo without Instruments
General Info
Year:1978
Duration: c. 2:00
Difficulty: III (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Kendor Music
Cost: Score and Parts (digital) - $10.50
Instrumentation
Full Score
Part I-II-III-IV
Players foot tapping, slapping wrists, clapping, tapping fingertips, slapping knees, etc.
No wind or percussion instruments.
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
Great for teaching rhythmic precision and ensemble balance, this popular number features knee slapping, hand clapping and foot tapping sounds for four musicians or a larger group of musicians with an equal number of players on each part.
- Program Note from publisher
Performance Notes
Any number of players may be used, with an equal number of players on each part.
Media
(Needed - please join the WRP if you can help.)
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
- Benedictine College (Atchison, Kan.) Percussion Ensemble (John F. Paul, instructor) - 20 March 2021
- Santo Andre Symphonic Orchestra (Brazil) - May 2020 (Virtual)
Works for Winds by This Composer
- Acoustic Suite
- And They Came to Play
- Canzonetta from Violin Concerto (as arranger) (1878/1993)
- Centralization
- Fantasia in C minor (as arranger)
- Five Star General March (1956)
- Gavotte (as arranger) (c. 1722/)
- Gentle Metal Monster
- March to the Battle of Jazz (1953/2001)
- The Miracle Overture (1957)
- Pennsylvania Sketches (1959)
- Pizzicato Polka (as arranger) (1869/)
- Rhythm Busters
- Rock Trap (1977)
- Rondo in D (as arranger)
- Scherzo for Percussion
- Scherzo without Instruments (1978)
- Turnaround (1966)
- Tympendium
- Tympolero
- The Whirlwind (as arranger)
- The Young Lions
Resources
- Heritage Encyclopedia of Band Music. "William Joseph Schinstine." Accessed 1 March 2016.
- Perusal score
- Schinstine, W. (1978), Scherzo without Instruments: Ensemble without Instruments [score]. Kendor Music: Delevan, N.Y.