{"id":342,"date":"2016-01-14T13:08:03","date_gmt":"2016-01-14T18:08:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/percdb.szsolomon.com\/?p=342"},"modified":"2016-01-15T09:40:44","modified_gmt":"2016-01-15T14:40:44","slug":"myers-skin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/percdb.szsolomon.com\/myers-skin\/","title":{"rendered":"Myers &#8211; Skin"},"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>Composer&#8217;s Name: Aaron Jay Myers<\/p>\n<p>Title of Piece: Skin<\/p>\n<p>Number of Percussion Players: 1<\/p>\n<p>Total Number of Players: 2<\/p>\n<p>Instrumentation: tenor saxophone and marimba<\/p>\n<p>Approximate length: 9 min.<\/p>\n<p>Program Note:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe score is a combination of metered, proportional, and graphic notation. \u00a0This creates a rhythmic and harmonic consistency while creating the organic feeling of free improvisation and maintaining an overall structural congruency. \u00a0The pitched material is derived from a 16-tone row (with repetitions of some pitches) created by attaching two transpositions of the Purvi Indian scale, as well as the very free use of a 12-tone row.<\/p>\n<p>Skin. People have based entire doctrines of belief upon it and used it as an excuse for hatred and violence. \u00a0It is strong and protects the rest of our more vulnerable body parts and organs, yet it is also extremely vulnerable itself. \u00a0From more benign things such as skin color, freckles, pimples, moles, and wrinkles, the annoying and sometimes dangerous things such as bug bites, acne, and warts, to more treacherous and sometimes fatal oddities such as various types of cancer or serious infections; Skin is our largest, and arguably strangest, organ.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Aaron Jay Myers<\/p>\n<p>Categories: Mixed Ensemble<\/p>\n<p>Annotated by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mattsharrock.com\/\">Matt Sharrock<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Composer&#8217;s Name: Aaron Jay Myers Title of Piece: Skin Number of Percussion Players: 1 Total Number of Players: 2 Instrumentation: tenor saxophone and marimba Approximate length: 9 min. Program Note: \u201cThe score is a combination of metered, proportional, and graphic notation. \u00a0This creates a rhythmic and harmonic consistency while creating the organic feeling of free [&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\/342"}],"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=342"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/percdb.szsolomon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":343,"href":"http:\/\/percdb.szsolomon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342\/revisions\/343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/percdb.szsolomon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/percdb.szsolomon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/percdb.szsolomon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}