I Ching Percussion

[Terpsícore Deckelman]

IChing by Per Norgard is a multi percussion solo written in 4 movements. Based on the I Ching, a thousand year old Chinese oracle that explores the 64 states of being. Per Norgard chose 4 states represented in the 4 movements.

Duet for two marimbasSkylark Orange Circles is dedicated to the wonderful Japanese marimba virtuoso, Momoko Kamiya. The music is very dance-like in quality, going over and over through mostly the same sequence of harmonies while melodic variations are developed. The melodic ideas become more and more like a bird (or flute) singing as the work progresses.

The arrangement Bob Becker made for NEXUS which has caught the attention of audiences and percussionists around the world and created a whole new fascination with the xylophone as a solo instrument. The accompaniments require four players performing on a minimum of two marimbas.

Evidence of the ching has been found in Angkor, the great temple-city of Khmer civilization, where classical art flourished between the ninth to the fifth centuries. Scenes carved in the walls of the temple depict celestial dancers with their musical instruments, including small cymbals (ching).[2]

Incorporate a "ching" into your backbeats by placing the MEINL Ching Rings directly on your cymbals! The Dry Ching Ring will add a different touch to your playing by delivering a dry tambourine sound that blends perfectly with your beats. The Soft Ching Ring with its lightweight foam ring adds a soft "ching" to your cymbals hits.

Born in Sasebo, Nagasaki, Japan, Brandon started playing the drums at age 11. After his family moved to Guangzhou, China, he shifted his classical percussion focus to jazz and started gigging around the country.

He is now a student at Northern Illinois University finishing up his degree in specialized world percussion performance. He has studied with many renowned artists, including Mike Mixtacki on Cuban and Brazilian percussion, Omar al-Musfi on Middle Eastern drumming, Robert Chappell on Indian tabla, Rodrigo Villanueva on drumset, Greg Beyer on concert percussion and berimbau, Ben Wahlund on mallet percussion, Chamni Sripraram on Thai percussion, and Reggie Thomas and Gene Aitken on jazz and swing.

He has shared the stage with artists such as Tony Monaco, Fareed Haque, Bobby Floyd, Liam Teague, Corey Wilkes, Chicago Sinfonietta, Ari Brown, Robert Irving III, Victor Provost and more. He performs in the Chicago area and has recently appeared in Japan, Taiwan, the U.S. and across China.

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Ming-Hui Kuo studied percussion with Dr. Pei-Ching Wu and Mr. Tzong-Ching Ju and was an intern member of Ju Percussion Group from 1993 to 2002. During her time with JPG, she performed in over 500 concerts and hundreds of music-related activities. Her international appearances with JPG include performances in Taiwan, China, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, Hong-Kong, Macao, Spain, Hungary, Australia, Canada, and the United States.

Dr. Kuo began to study percussion at the age of 14, after being introduced to the world of percussion by Su-Jin Hsu. During her time at Guo Guang Performing Arts High School, she began studies with Dr. Pei-Ching Wu, principal of Ju Percussion Group (JPG) and continued through her graduation from Eternal Life Christ College in Taiwan. Kuo also studied with Mr. Tzong-Ching Ju, the Founder and Artistic Director of JPG during the years in which Dr. Wu was pursuing her doctoral degree at West Virginia University. Kuo earned her Master of Music degree at Morehead state University in 2003. In 2012 she earned the Doctor of Musical Arts in Percussion Performance at the University of Kentucky as a student of Jim Campbell.

Kuo has been an active clinician and chamber ensemble performer since 2007. Events include Percussion Art Society Kentucky Day of Percussion in 2013, Indiana Percussion Association Clinic Day in 2016 and 2017, Music of the 21st Century Chamber Concerts in 2016 and 2017, Indiana Music Education Association Conference Day of Percussion in 2018, The North American Saxophone Alliance Biennial Conference in 2012 and 2018, clinic tours in Taiwan and numerous Midwest colleges and high schools.

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Meinl have long been one of the market leaders in the percussion world and now have a simply massive range of percussion options for drummers and percussionists to choose from no matter their need or budget.

Commissioned by Brian A. West and the TCU Percussion Orchestra, I Ching is a set of variations for large percussion ensemble based on concepts from the ancient Chinese book of wisdom by the same name.

Ju has received numerous awards, including the Youth Award, Ten Outstanding Young Persons, Golden Tripod Award, Golden Melody Award, National Award for Arts and the Presidential Commendation Medal. He was honoured with the Outstanding Contribution Award and Lifetime Education Achievement Award by the International Percussive Arts Society. In 2016, he was inducted into the PAS Hall of Fame, making him the first person of Chinese descent to receive this honour.

In 2022, the Tzong-Ching Ju Percussion Ensemble performed at the Percussive Arts Society International Convention (PASIC) in the United States, leaving a profound impact on the audience comprising two thousand percussionists from around the world. After a four-year hiatus, the 11th Taiwan International Percussion Convention (TIPC) was held in 2023, featuring the fourth rendition of the Hundred Marimbas concert, showcasing the captivating unity of the percussion community in the post-pandemic era.

The ching has probably been in use in Korea longer than the smaller gong (kkwaenggwari). It is featured in many genres of Korean music including shamanic, Confucian, Buddhist, military, and folk musics. In the military context of earlier times, the ching was used to signal retreat during battles.

Hahn, Myung-Hee. 1998. A Study of Musical Instruments in Korean Traditional Music, translated by Park, Il-Woo, Seoul: The National Center for Korean Traditional Performing Arts, Ministry of Culture and Tourism.

Taipei, Feb. 18 (CNA) Taiwanese percussionist Wu Pei-ching (吳珮菁) will play 43 instruments in a guest performance with the Portland Symphony Orchestra in the United States on Feb. 25 after months of practice that she described as a "rewarding" challenge.

"I have been practicing the piece since mid-2023. The concerto was composed to demonstrate new sounds and rhythms not usually associated with percussion," Wu told CNA on Friday, referring to the piece she will perform, American composer John Corigliano's "Conjurer."

Wu first received the invitation from the orchestra based in Portland, Maine in January 2023 to join it and guest conductor Marco Parisotto in a performance of the Grammy and Oscar-winning composer's only percussion concerto, she said.

The 35-minute piece requires a solo percussionist to play 43 instruments corresponding to the titles of its three movements -- Wood, Metal and Skin -- according to the orchestra's introduction to the concerto.

The 43 instruments range from a marimba, wood blocks, glockenspiel, and tubular bells to various drums, including a "talking drum," an hourglass-shaped West African instrument Wu had never played before but that has an important role in the third movement, she said.

"In Corigliano's composition, the 'talking drum' is not played with a stick or under one's armpit, but with the hands and between the legs. It's very difficult because each leg has to play it to a different rhythm," Wu said.

Wu, a senior member of the Ju Percussion Group, spent the recent Lunar New Year holiday rehearsing the piece at the music group's headquarters in Taipei rather than returning to Taichung to spend the break with her family, she said, and it was time well spent.

The concert Wu will perform in as a soloist is titled "American Beats," and it features other "uniquely American compositions," including Leonard Bernstein's "Overture to Candide," Aaron Copland's "Rodeo: Four Dance Episodes" and George Gershwin's "Catfish Row: Symphonic Suite from Porgy and Bess," according to the orchestra.

Oracle is a sixty-four-minute composition for singers and instrumentalists including percussion. It is the third of my pieces designed to be played out of doors, in a park or in the country, woods, highlands, and the like. It may be also played indoors. The structure of Oracle is based on the I-Ching, one of the Chinese Classic texts (compiled c. 1150 b.c.) in which sixty-four hexagrams are used to suggest appropriate actions in response to questions posed by the reader. Each hexagram is a collection of six lines that are either broken (- -) or unbroken (---). I use each hexagram to determine the musical features of a corresponding section of the composition; there are therefore 64 sections, each lasting one minute. The order of the hexagrams does not follow the orders given above, but are sequenced so that between two successive hexagrams only one line changes from broken to unbroken or vice versa. This ensures that the music based on the hexagrams flows along smoothly, without great change or abruption. As in my other outdoor pieces, each section is associated with a basic pitch. Thus there is a sequence of 64 notes that guides the music forward. These notes are overlapped so that, excepting the first and last three sections, each section has not only a basic pitch, but a basic four-note chord that is articulated in various ways. The structure of the basic pitch sequence permits the chords to represent each of the 29 types of four-note harmonies (available in the equal-tempered system of pitches) exactly once in a given order, then in retrograde. -Robert Morris

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