{"id":302,"date":"2016-01-14T12:59:54","date_gmt":"2016-01-14T17:59:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/percdb.szsolomon.com\/?p=302"},"modified":"2016-01-15T09:40:46","modified_gmt":"2016-01-15T14:40:46","slug":"manoury-duo-for-marimbas-from-le-livre-des-claviers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/percdb.szsolomon.com\/manoury-duo-for-marimbas-from-le-livre-des-claviers\/","title":{"rendered":"Manoury &#8211; Duo for Marimbas (from Le Livre des Claviers)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field-items\">\n<div class=\"field-item even\">\n<p>Phillippe Manoury<\/p>\n<p>Duo for Marimbas (from <em>Le Livre des Claviers<\/em>) (1987)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>two 4.3 octave marimbas<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>5 minutes<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Le Livre des Claviers<\/em> (\u201cthe Book of Keyboards\u201d) is a set of 6 pieces for pitched percussion instruments written for the French sextet Les Percussions de Strasbourg.\u00a0 The two most commonly performed pieces are the marimba duo on tonight\u2019s program and a vibraphone solo.\u00a0 The marimba duo consists of approximately 40 short musical fragments, with pauses in between each.\u00a0 These fragments range from a single gesture or chord to a solid minute of running notes.\u00a0 Within this structure exist moments of solidly grounded rhythm as well as passages filled with disorienting, arhythmic gestures.\u00a0 Manoury\u2019s real genius in this work is in the way he creates a coherent narrative by relating these two extremes, transforming one into the other, juxtaposing them, and finding middle ground between them.<\/p>\n<p>-Robert Dillon<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phillippe Manoury Duo for Marimbas (from Le Livre des Claviers) (1987) &nbsp; two 4.3 octave marimbas &nbsp; 5 minutes &nbsp; Le Livre des Claviers (\u201cthe Book of Keyboards\u201d) is a set of 6 pieces for pitched percussion instruments written for the French sextet Les Percussions de Strasbourg.\u00a0 The two most commonly performed pieces are the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/percdb.szsolomon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/percdb.szsolomon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/percdb.szsolomon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/percdb.szsolomon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/percdb.szsolomon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/percdb.szsolomon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":303,"href":"http:\/\/percdb.szsolomon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302\/revisions\/303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/percdb.szsolomon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/percdb.szsolomon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/percdb.szsolomon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}