Scuttlebutt
Subtitle: For Percussion Ensemble
General Info
Year: 2014
Duration: c. 4:45
Difficulty: III (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Tapspace Publications
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $40.00
Instrumentation
Percussion (8 players), including:
- Bass Drum
- Cabasa
- Cowbell (3)
- Glockenspiel
- Hi-Hat
- Snare Drum
- Splash Cymbal
- Suspended Cymbal (2)
- Tambourine
- Tam-Tam
- Temple Blocks (5)
- Timpani
- Tom-Tom (4)
- Triangle
- Vibra-slap
- Xylophone
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
Scuttlebutt utilizes fairly basic instrumentation found in most band rooms. It relies heavily on a half-time snare backbeat while exploring various syncopated rhythms and triplet figures in the style of electronic dance music. The rhythmic textures are first built from scratch, one layer at a time. As the piece progresses they are expanded to mini-features and conversational ideas that get thrown around the ensemble.
- Program Note from publisher
Jim Casella's intermediate-level percussion ensemble has the drive of electronic dance music paired with a half-tempo backbeat. Young players learn to plan common funk rhythms that layer on top of an establish groove with occasional rhythmic dissonance. Concert toms, snare and timpani are featured before the piece culminates in a high-energy recap.
- Program Note from Stiles Middle School Honors Band concert program, 17 December 2015
Media
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
- Louis Pizitz Middle School (Vestavia Hills, Ala.) Symphonic Band (Kim Bain, conductor) – 22 February 2018 (CBDNA 2018 Southern Conference, Tampa, Fla.)
- Stiles Middle School (Leander, Tex.) Honors Band (not conducted) - 17 December 2015 (2015 Midwest Clinic)
- VIsta Ridge Percussion Ensemble – 2015
Works for Winds by This Composer
- Cyclone (2010)
- Fight or Flight (2012)
- Katraterra (2006)
- Scuttlebutt (2014)
- Stormbreak (1995)
- Technology (1998)