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The Sound Garden : a book of percussion pieces for young people / Michael Whiticker.
Library shelf no. 785.6819/WHI 1 [Available for loan]
Work Overview
A range of pieces for children that use percussion, voices, guitar and recorders.
Work Details
Year: 2000
Instrumentation: Range of percussion, voices (Chatter with the angels, Who's that, Sound Garden jive), guitar (Guitars too!), recorders (Reggae for Sound Garden).
Duration: 24 min.
Difficulty: Easy — Amateur (primary school age)
Commission note: Resulting from a project commissioned by Thuringowa Council, Qld.
'Chatter with the angels' and 'Who's that' are arrangements of traditional repertoire ; all others by the composer.
Book of percussion pieces written particularly for primary school-age children to encourage them to use the interactive percussion Sound Garden at Willows Gardens [in Thuringowa, North Queensland], however it may be freely adapted to any site. The most obvious venue will be the classroom.
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