related works
Elegy : for string quartet / Ross James Carey
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
String quartet (2 violins, viola, cello)
Scoring:
2vln vla vc
Quartetto no. 2 : for saxophone quartet / 1998, Carlos Micháns
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Saxophone
Scoring:
4sax
3 pianopieces + pianopiece 4 / Misja Mengelberg
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Piano
Scoring:
pf
Theophanes the Greek : for narrator, soprano, mixed choir and large ensemble / Savvas Karantzias
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Mixed choir and large ensemble
Scoring:
sopr GK perc 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.