related works
Hommage à Haydn : for piano / Ross James Carey
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Piano
Scoring:
pf
Whimsical turns : for fanfare orchestra, 1992 / Lowell Dijkstra
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Fanfare
Scoring:
0000 4sax 3332 4bug 2barh 6perc
Capriccio : voor 2 piano's en slagwerk, 1985 / Kees Olthuis
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Mixed ensemble (2-12 players)
Scoring:
5perc 2pf
Il pianista è sempre solo : for ensemble / Alexey Sioumak
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Large ensemble (12 or more players)
Scoring:
fl cl tb timp pf str
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.