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Featured New Music for Percussion Archive

John Luther Adams: Sauyatugvik - The Time of Drumming (1996) *
John Alfieri: Fanfare for Tambourines (1989) *
Javier Alvarez: Temazcal (1984) *
John H. Beck: Overture for Percussion Ensemble (1976) *
Joseph Blaha: The Night Watch - I. Death's Gathering (2000) *
John Cage: A Flower (1950) *
John Cage: Third Construction (1941) *
John Cage: "Water Walk" on "I've Got a Secret" [Jan. 1960] *
Elliott Carter: March, from "Eight Pieces for Timpani" (1950) *
Carlos Chávez: Toccata (1942) *
Michael Colgrass: Déjà Vu (1977)
Michael Colgrass: Three Brothers (l951) *
Henry Cowell: Ostinato Pianissimo (1934) *
James Dillon: Ti.re-Ti.ke-Dha (1979) *
Morton Feldman: The King of Denmark (1964) *
Mark Ford: Polaris (1995)  *
David Gillingham: Concertino for Four Percussion and Wind (1997) *
David Gillingham: Supercell (2005) *
Philip Glass: Concerto Fantasy for Two Timpanists & Orchestra, mvt 3 (2000) *
Lou Harrison: Varied Trio (1987) - Bowl Bells *
Elizabeth Hoffman: Vissera (2010)  *
André Jolivet: Suite en concert (1965) *
Daniel Jones: Sonata for 3 Kettledrums (1947) *
Mauricio Kagel: Dressur (1977)  -  see current Featured New Percussion Music
David Lang: Face So Pale (1992) *
David Lang: The So-Called Laws of Nature (2002), Part III *
Dan Locklair: Constellations (1980) *
David Maslanka: Variations on Lost Love (1997) *
Miles Okazaki: Rotations (2009) *
William Ortiz-Alvarado: The Well-Tempered Clave (La Clave Bien Temperada) (2003) *
Mitchell Peters: A la nañigo (1967) *
Mitchell Peters: Sea Refractions (1971) *
Mitchell Peters: Yellow After the Rain (1999) *
John Psathas: Etude (part 1 of “One Study One Summary”) (2005) *
Marta Ptaszyńska: Spider Walk (1993) *
Steve Reich: Clapping Music (1972) *
Steve Reich: Music for Pieces of Wood (1973) *
Steve Reich: Nagoya Marimbas (1994) *
Ney Rosauro: Concerto for Vibraphone (1996)  -  see current Weekly New Music Video No. 1
Ney Rosauro: Marimba Concerto (1986) *
Ney Rosauro: Prelude and Blues (1993)  *
Ney Rosauro: Toccata and Divertimento, op. 32 (2000)  *
Christopher Rouse: Ogoun Badagris (1976) *
Frederic Rzewski: To the Earth (1985) *
Peter Sculthorpe: Jabiru Dreaming (1989) *
David Skidmore: Fanfare for a New Audience (2009)  *
David Skidmore: Ritual Music (2004)
Edgard Varèse: Ionisation (1931) *
Alejandro Viñao: Khan Variations (2001) *
Eric Whitacre: Sleep (2000) *
Christian Wolff: Fall (2000) *
Iannis Xenakis: Claviers, from Pleiades (1978) *
Iannis Xenakis: Psappha (1975) *
Iannis Xenakis: Rebonds (Rebounds) (1988) *

*  also in the Featured New Music Video Archive