
(1936 - 2012)
Richard Rodney Bennett is one of Britain’s most respected and versatile musicians. He has produced over two hundred works for the concert hall, and fifty scores for film and television as well as having been a writer and performer of jazz songs for fifty years. Studies with Boulez in the 1950s immersed him in the techniques of the European avant-garde, though he subsequently developed his own distinctive dramato-abstract style. In recent years he has adopted an increasingly tonal idiom. He was knighted for Services to Music in 1998.
Composition timpani and percussion requirements
Anniversaries
Timpani + 3 percussion + celeste
1) xylophone, glockenspiel, ching ring, 3 timbales 2) vibraphone, 2 octaves crotales, claves, snare drum, tenor drum, bongos 3) marimba, tubular bells, orchestral bass drum, tam tam, 3 wood blocks, 3 suspended cymbals + celeste
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Birthday Music for Orchestra
Timpani + 2 percussion
Snare drum, orchestra bass drum, small suspended cymbal, tambourine
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Celebration
Timpani + 3 percussion
1) xylophone 2) snare drum 3) 3 wood blocks (small, med, large), medium suspended cymbal, orchestral bass drum, triangle
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Country Dances (book 1) for Orchestra
Timpani + 1 percussion
Snare drum, small triangle, 2 x suspended cymbal (S & M), crotales C, D, Eb, F, Ab, C, tambourine
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Diversions
Timpani + 2 percussion
Snare drum, tenor drum, triangle, xylophone, tambourine, 3 suspended cymbals, tubular bells, orchestral bass drum
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Gormenghast Suite (arr John Wilson)
Timpani + 2 percussion + celeste
Suspended cymbal x 2 (medium and large), clash cymbals, snare drum, tam tam, tubular bells, xylophone - celeste
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Isadora - Ballet
Timpani + 3 percussion
1) glockenspiel, xylophone, 2 octave crotales, 3 timbales, whip, tam tam, 2) vibraphone, tubular bells, tambourine, orchestral bass drum, 3 suspended cymbals, 3 wood blocks, 3) 3 bongos, tam tam, snare drum, tenor drum, triangle, castanets, suspended cymbal, 1920's drum kit
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Lilliburlero Variations
Timpani + 1 percussion
Snare drum, 3 suspended cymbals, clash cymbals, 3 bongos, tam tam
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Percussion Concerto
Timpani + solo percussion
Solo percussion – 10 ‘skins’ (bongos, timbales, tom toms, congas etc), 3 wood blocks. 5 temple blocks, 3 triangles, 4 suspended cymbals, hi hats, bell tree, glass chimes, agogo bells, tambourim, snare drum, pedal bass drum
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Piano Concerto
Timpani + 3 percussion
Crotales (low oct), tambourine, tam tam, orchestral bass drum, clash cymbals, suspended cymbal, snare drum, tenor drum, bongos, 2 tom toms, claves, xylophone, vibraphone
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Rondel for large jazz ensemble
No Timpani + 1 percussion + drum kit
Xylophone, crotales D and A, drum kit
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Sinfonietta
Timpani + 1 percussion
Snare drum, orchestral bass drum, triangle, suspended cymbal, tambourine
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Suite from Gormenghast (Orch J. Wilson)
No timpani + 2 percussion + celeste
Clash cymbals, suspended cymbals x 2, snare drum, tam tam, tubular bells, xylophone, celeste
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Troubadour Music
Timpani + 3 percussion + celeste
Snare drum, tenor drum, orchestral bass drum, tubular bells, ching ring, xylophone, celeste
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Variations on a Nursey Tune
Timpani + 2 percussion + celeste
Low octave crotales, glockenspiel, xylophone, snare drum, tenor drum, pedal bass drum, 3 suspended cymbals (small, med, large), 2 wood blocks (small, medium), ching ring, tubular bells C#4, E, F#, G – celeste
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Waltz from "Murder on the Orient Express"
Timpani + 3 percussion
Snare drum, glockenspiel, orchestral bass drum, suspended cymbal, train whistle, tubular bells, clash cymbals, steam effect
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