related works
Hommage à Haydn : for piano / Ross James Carey
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Piano
Scoring:
pf
Il bambino nella culla : for voice and piano / Rosy Wertheim; words by Nanda Sandbergen
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and piano
Scoring:
zang pf
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Mixed choir
Scoring:
GK21
Urban Turban : Version for flute and marimba / Ned McGowan
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Mixed ensemble (2-12 players)
Scoring:
fl mar
composition
Two Pieces : for three gamelan players / Ross James Carey
Other authors:
Carey, Ross James
(Composer)
Description:
In these pieces for a chamber grouping of just three gamelan instruments, I used as the basis for composition a combined scale made up of notes from the pelog and slendro modes. The first piece combines a repeated ostinato and melody in a laid-back ‘bluesy’ kind of way. The second piece is a wholly serial composition consisting of a repeated cycle of notes; the three performers play each note on their instrument once only (making a complete cycle) before again the notes are played in the same order, although the ensemble (the interlocking pattern) can be varied in the subsequent repetition.
Saron barung in slendro, saron barung in pelog, demung in slendro.