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Composers
Series EXAMINATIONS

SERVICE

Doublethinh
(1994)
Percussion Solo
Joby Talbot
Editar: Erie Hollis

This series has been initiated in arder to encourage young composers

at the GSMD to write practical pieces which are, at the same time,
a challenge, stimulating and exciting to play.

Robert Saxton Peter Game

© 1995 Guildhall School of Music and Drama.

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o part of this publication may be reproduced in any forro or by any means.

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perroission of the publisher.

Examinations Service
Guildhall School of Music and Drama
Barbican. London EC2Y 8DT
IN THE BARBICAN

0171-3827167 LONDON

 "DüUBLETHINK"
percussion solo

Instrumentation: suspended cyrnbal

tambourine
wood-block
snare drum
4 concert tom-toms
bass drum
xylophone

Suggested layout:

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cyrnbal

snare/O
drum !IJ
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bass
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table for woodblock,

tambourine & sticks

Duration: 5 mins

This piece consists almost entirely of groups of two and three notes which together make up short
phrases. These phrases are played both forwards and backwards and gradually increase in length
with the addition of more two or three note groups thus:
+2 +3 +2 etc.

As the phrases grow so the rests between them shorten until a 'saturation point' of constant semi­

quavers is reached. From this climax the music subsides with a gradual slowing down to the end.

Strict tempo should be maintained throughout (except in bar 86) but the rests should seem like

pauses with no external manifestation of the beat by the performer.

The first note of each 2/3 note group must be clearly accented and 1 have staffed the notes accord­

ingly to clarify this point.

Sticks required:- wooden xylophone beaters, wooden drum sticks, felt bass drum malleto

Joby Talbot, London, November 1994

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