related works

Elegy : for string quartet / Ross James Carey

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: String quartet (2 violins, viola, cello)
Scoring: 2vln vla vc

Mariachi : (de 'A Tí Te Toca'), for orchestra / Marijn Simons

Genre: Orchestra
Subgenre: Orchestra
Scoring: 2222 2220 timp 3perc pf str

Potsherd : for xylophone, vibraphone and marimba / Maximiliano Amici

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Percussion
Scoring: xyl vibr mar

Textures and Structures : for piano / Wim Dirriwachter

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Piano
Scoring: pf

composition

Two Pieces : for three gamelan players / Ross James Carey

Author(s):
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.