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Home / Compositions / Instrumental (solo and duo) / Instrumental - percussion

Instrumental - percussion

Andrew Ford’s Composition in Blue, Grey and Pink has been played all over the world, but here you’ll also fund other solos, two duos and works with violin and viola.

Please click work titles for more information and resources (audio, sheet music, program note etc.) about individual works in this category.

Hook (2018)

6 minutes
for solo vibraphone

Commissioned for Claire Edwardes by Julian Burnside AO QC

First performance by Claire Edwardes (vibraphone), home Zoom concert, 26 April 2020

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You Must Sleep, but I Must Dance (2010)

18 minutes
for viola and percussion

Commissioned by the University of Sydney to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Sydney Conservatorium of Music

First performance by Roger Benedict (viola), Daryl Pratt (percussion), Verbrugghen Hall, Sydney Conservatorium of Music, 17 September 2012

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Soave sia il vento (2005)

4 minutes
for duo of vibraphone and marimba

Commissioned by Callum Moncrieff

First performance by Kitt Byfield (vibraphone) and Callum Moncrieff (marimba), West Australian Academy of Performing Arts, 9 September 2005

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The Crantock Gulls (2004)

7 minutes
for 2 drummers

For two drummers, situated as far apart as possible, each playing five drums of varying size, from bass drum to bongo

First performance by Match Percussion, Sydney Conservatorium of Music, 23 March 2005

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War and Peace (2004)

15 minutes
for violin and percussion
  1. March -
  2. No Man's Land -
  3. The Armed Man
  1. violin and drum (say darabuka or djembe)
  2. violin and mmetal percussion (including vibraphone)
  3. violin and drum kit

Commissioned by Claire Edwardes, funded by a composer fellowship from the Music Board of Australia Council for the Arts

First performance by Antipoduo - Sarah Oates (violin), Claire Edwardes (percussion), Noordekerk, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 29 January 2005

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The Armed Man (2004)

6 minutes
solo for drum kit

This is the third movement of War and Peace, minus the violin

side drum, 5 tom-toms. sizzle cymbal, hi-hat, bass drum

Commissioned by Claire Edwardes

First performance by Claire Edwardes, Sydney Conservatorium of Music, Sydney, 14 August 2005

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Winterreise (2000)

2 mins
solo for sleigh bells

Commissioned by Peter Neville

First performance by Peter Neville, Rechabite Hall, Melbourne, November 2000

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Getting Blue (1993)

3 minutes
for alto saxophone and vibraphone

First performance by Duo Contemporain - Henri Bok (sax), Miquel Bernat (vibraphone), The Loft, Cologne, Germany, October 1994

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Composition in Blue, Grey and Pink (1993)

5 minutes
for solo drummer

Five drums from roughly the same family

Commissioned by Strange Attractions

First performance by Sue Dennis, Old Darlington School, Sydney, 5 August 1994

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Mondriaan (1993)

13 minutes
for flute (= piccolo, = bass flute) and percussion

1. Composition with Yellow Square

2. Female Nude

3. Composition in blue, grey and pink

  1. piccolo and metal percussion
  2. alto flute and wooden percussion (inc. marimba)
  3. bass flute and hand drums

Commissioned by Strange Attractions

First performance of movements 1 and 2 by Strange Attractions - Kathleen Gallagher (flutes), Sue Dennis (percussion), Old Darlington School, Sydney, 29 October 1993

First performance of third movement by Lamorna Nightingale (bass flute), Joshua Hill (drums), Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney, 9 August 2009

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