Texas UIL Instrumental and Ensemble Percussion Ensemble Class 2

A classic percussion ensemble piece scored for eight or nine players.  It is melodically driven giving it big audience appeal, and short in duration making it easy to program.

This melodically driven piece for six percussionists takes on a quirky, toy-like quality with bright keyboard timbres and woody sounds in the battery. It is in three distinct movements titled March for

Mosaics is an exciting well-textured sextet for unpitched percussion plus timpani. The set-ups are simple, and the rhythms are playable by a young ensemble. It appears on several

The melodies of Orentale by Thomas O'Connor work charmingly around the familiar pentatonic scale. The timbres created by the accompanying timpani and battery color the melodies simply and

Here is a great old-school percussion quintet! Though the piece is scored for unpitched percussion plus timpani, the rhythms function melodically helping to give the piece its solid form and

A terrific concert-style piece for percussion sextet driven by modal melodies and woody timbres.