{"id":542,"date":"2016-01-14T14:00:42","date_gmt":"2016-01-14T19:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/szsolomon.com\/percdb\/?p=542"},"modified":"2016-01-15T09:40:37","modified_gmt":"2016-01-15T14:40:37","slug":"williams-variations-for-solo-kettledrums","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/percdb.szsolomon.com\/williams-variations-for-solo-kettledrums\/","title":{"rendered":"Williams &#8211; Variations for Solo Kettledrums"},"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>Title: Variations for Solo Kettledrums<\/p>\n<p>Author: Jan Williams<\/p>\n<p>Description: Variations for Solo Kettledrums is a intermediate-advanced piece for solo timpani. The composer started with a row of twelve notes, on which the theme and each of the five variations is based upon in some form (inversion, transposition, retrograde or retrograde-inversion). Thus, the theme and the variations often have very little rhythmically connecting them, only this pitch series binds them. The theme is straightforward with the exception of the time signature 6\/6, which just indicates a metric modulation where quarter note triplets become the quarter note beat.<\/p>\n<p>Variation 1 is a perpetual motion movement that is continually interupted by fermatas. This gives the impression of someone talking and continually being interrupted. Variation 2 is a slow dirge requiring four mallets. Variation 3 is a short, quickly paced movement in 6\/8 somewhat in the style of a Beethoven scherzo. This variation is to be played with the back end of rattan mallets. Variation 4 is marked &#8220;Tense \u2013 Agitated&#8221; and contains great dynamic swings as well as many short loud jagged passages. Variation 5 functions as a coda of the previous variations bringing back some elements of the theme and first variation especially.<\/p>\n<p>Categories:<\/p>\n<p>Annotated by Greg Simonds<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Title: Variations for Solo Kettledrums Author: Jan Williams Description: Variations for Solo Kettledrums is a intermediate-advanced piece for solo timpani. The composer started with a row of twelve notes, on which the theme and each of the five variations is based upon in some form (inversion, transposition, retrograde or retrograde-inversion). Thus, the theme and 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\/542"}],"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=542"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/percdb.szsolomon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":543,"href":"http:\/\/percdb.szsolomon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542\/revisions\/543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/percdb.szsolomon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/percdb.szsolomon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/percdb.szsolomon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}