{"id":338,"date":"2016-01-14T13:07:17","date_gmt":"2016-01-14T18:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/percdb.szsolomon.com\/?p=338"},"modified":"2016-01-15T09:40:45","modified_gmt":"2016-01-15T14:40:45","slug":"muhly-ta-and-clap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/percdb.szsolomon.com\/muhly-ta-and-clap\/","title":{"rendered":"Muhly &#8211; Ta and Clap"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"content\">\n<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>Ta and Clap (2005) \u2013 Nico Muhly<\/p>\n<p>Instrumentation:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>2 marimbas<\/li>\n<li>Player 1: 3 congas, large tom, opera gong, bass drum, suspended cymbal, china cymbal, hi-hat, 5 cans, 2 cowbells<\/li>\n<li>Player 2: 3 toms, 5 cans, shaker, log drum, clave<\/li>\n<li>Player 3: 3 snare drums, 5 temple blocks, 5 cans<\/li>\n<li>Player 4: bass drum, 3 roto-toms, 5 cans<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Composer\u2019s note:<\/p>\n<p>Ta-ing and Clapping is a method of teaching rhythms wherein all beats are accounted for, resulting in a fully-rendered moto perpetuo that only implies empty spaces naturally found in a rhythmic pattern. In <em>Ta &amp; Clap<\/em>, scored for percussion quartet, I wrote dense marimba music and then subjected this music to several processes of subtraction, resulting in a rhythmic cycle that is sometimes presented in its entirety, sometimes filled with holes, and sometimes completely rendered out such that there are no holes at all. Although there is a lot of math at work, Ta &amp; Clap is meant to be fun to play and challenging to learn. It is scored for 2 marimbas and any number of assorted percussion instruments at the discretion of the performers.\u00a0<em>Ta &amp; Clap<\/em>\u00a0is dedicated to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linec3.com\/\">Line C-3<\/a>(comprising Chris Thompson, Haruka Fujii, John Ostrowski, and Sam Solomon), with gratitude for the patience and good rhythmic sportsmanship.<\/p>\n<p>-Nico Muhly<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Annotated by John Stapleton<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ta and Clap (2005) \u2013 Nico Muhly Instrumentation: 2 marimbas Player 1: 3 congas, large tom, opera gong, bass drum, suspended cymbal, china cymbal, hi-hat, 5 cans, 2 cowbells Player 2: 3 toms, 5 cans, shaker, log drum, clave Player 3: 3 snare drums, 5 temple blocks, 5 cans Player 4: bass drum, 3 roto-toms, [&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\/338"}],"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=338"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/percdb.szsolomon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":339,"href":"http:\/\/percdb.szsolomon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338\/revisions\/339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/percdb.szsolomon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/percdb.szsolomon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/percdb.szsolomon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}