{"id":530,"date":"2016-01-14T13:58:07","date_gmt":"2016-01-14T18:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/szsolomon.com\/percdb\/?p=530"},"modified":"2016-01-15T09:40:37","modified_gmt":"2016-01-15T14:40:37","slug":"westlake-fabian-theory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/percdb.szsolomon.com\/westlake-fabian-theory\/","title":{"rendered":"Westlake &#8211; Fabian Theory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Composer: <\/strong>Nigel Westlake<\/p>\n<p><strong>Title: <\/strong>Fabian Theory<\/p>\n<p><strong>Category: <\/strong>Percussion Solo<\/p>\n<p><strong>Instrumentation: <\/strong>Marimba (4.3 octave), 3 tom-toms, digital delay, and looping pedal<\/p>\n<p><strong>Difficulty: <\/strong>Intermediate<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publisher: <\/strong>Rimshot Music<\/p>\n<p><strong>Description: <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>An electronic delay system is employed throughout the piece, serving to reproduce the \u2018live\u2019 signal 566 milliseconds (about\u00a0 half a second ) after it has been played, thereby building a multi-marimba illusion &amp; creating rhythmic counterpoint against the live performance.<\/p>\n<p>The player is requested to play in tight synchronisation with the delayed signal &amp; by moving through a number of tempo changes, different rhythmic effects are achieved.<\/p>\n<p>The use of the delay gives rise to the title, which is a reference to the great Roman dictator, Fabius Maximus who was victorious due to the use of delay tactics in battle.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Fabian Theory was commissioned by Synergy Percussion with\u00a0 financial assistance from the music board\u00a0 of the Australia council.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Annotated by Dan Pessalano<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Composer: Nigel Westlake Title: Fabian Theory Category: Percussion Solo Instrumentation: Marimba (4.3 octave), 3 tom-toms, digital delay, and looping pedal Difficulty: Intermediate Publisher: Rimshot Music Description: An electronic delay system is employed throughout the piece, serving to reproduce the \u2018live\u2019 signal 566 milliseconds (about\u00a0 half a second ) after it has been played, thereby building [&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\/530"}],"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=530"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/percdb.szsolomon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":531,"href":"http:\/\/percdb.szsolomon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530\/revisions\/531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/percdb.szsolomon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/percdb.szsolomon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/percdb.szsolomon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}