Login

Enter your username and password

Forgotten your username or password?

Your Shopping Cart

There are no items in your shopping cart.

bird organ is made of wood

Sheet Music: Score

The bird organ is made of wood : for 3 percussionists / Caroline Wilkins.

by Caroline Wilkins (1995)

  • Sales Availability: This item is not available to customers outside Australia and New Zealand.
    Please contact Ricordi (Milan) for all sales enquiries.
  • Library Availability: Q 785.6813/WIL 1 — Available for loan
  • Instrumentation: Herd bells, side drum, glass chimes, 6 temple blocks, 3 wood blocks. Glockenspiel, vibraphone, 2 crotales, 2 cymbals. Bambus, guiro, 2 reco-recos, 3 maracas, cabaca, 2 mexican beans, shocallo, sand blocks, bass drum, side drum.

N/A

This item is not available to customers outside Australia and New Zealand.
Please contact Ricordi (Milan) for all sales enquiries.

Product details

The title is taken from a quotation by Denis Diderot in D'Alembert's Dream (1762); 'the bird organ is made of wood, man is made of flesh'.

The work consists of 3 movements, taking as their starting point my interest in early forms of automata and their parallel with natural, environmental sound. Each movement explores the timbral properties of percussion instruments grouped according to their materials: metal, wood, membranes, tuned and untuned; merging certain timbral colours together.

Published by: Ricordi (Milan) [G.H. 11569] — 1 score (10p. -- A3 (portrait))

Difficulty: Advanced — Rhythmic synchronisation, subtleties of timbre, technically difficult.

Duration: 9 min.

Contents note:

In 3 movements.

First performance by Schlagquartett Koeln — 1998. Alte Feuerwache, Cologne

Includes programme note and performance notes.

This is a handwritten edition — it is not typeset.

Related products

This work is also available in the following products:

[Music by] Caroline Wilkins.
CD: [Music by] Caroline Wilkins.

Selected recordings
CD: Selected recordings / Caroline Wilkins.

This work also exists as the following versions:
- Large chamber ensembles

 

- Browse other works published by Ricordi (Milan)

- Browse other works for Trios: 3 Percussion

- Browse other works by Caroline Wilkins


User reviews

Be the first to share your thoughts, opinions and insights about this item.

To post a comment please login