{"id":694,"date":"2016-01-16T13:35:20","date_gmt":"2016-01-16T18:35:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/percdb.szsolomon.com\/?p=694"},"modified":"2016-01-16T13:35:20","modified_gmt":"2016-01-16T18:35:20","slug":"smith-noble-snare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/percdb.szsolomon.com\/smith-noble-snare\/","title":{"rendered":"Smith &#8211; Noble Snare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Default\"><strong>Stuart Saunders Smith &#8211; Noble Snare<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"Default\">\n<p class=\"Default\">Whenever I listened to a snare drum roll, I was struck by the complexity of the sound itself. Far from a non-pitched instrument, the snare drum sounded like an ocean of sound &#8211; virtually every pitch represented &#8211; with subtle waves and currents. The snare drum has always seemed to me to be full of possibilities as a solo instrument.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Default\">\u00a0In 1987 my initial idea was to publish one volume of snare drum solos &#8211; to &#8220;elevate&#8221; the snare drum to the level of a solo concert instrument. I asked many leading composers if they would be interested in writing for snare drum, hoping there would be enough positive responses to make a book.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Default\">The response was so enthusiastic and so immediate! It was as if the idea were there in the air waiting for someone to initiate it and coordinate it. And so there are 4 volumes of snare drum solos, each piece distinct and expressive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Default\">These 4 volumes should be thought of as an anthology of snare drum music. They are ungraded as to difficulty and not grouped in any kind of style. Each piece is presented in a different penmanship to enhance the sense of different statements &#8211; distinct musical worlds with the snare drum.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Default\">-Sylvia Smith<\/p>\n<p class=\"Default\">\n<p class=\"Default\">Volume 1 includes compositions from the following composers:<\/p>\n<p class=\"Default\">Stuart Saunders Smith<\/p>\n<p class=\"Default\">Ben Johnston<\/p>\n<p class=\"Default\">Michael LaRosa<\/p>\n<p class=\"Default\">Alexander Lepak<\/p>\n<p class=\"Default\">Milton Babbitt<\/p>\n<p class=\"Default\">Charles Boone<\/p>\n<p class=\"Default\">David Macbride<\/p>\n<p>Udo Kasements<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Volume 2 includes compositions from the following composers:<\/p>\n<p>Herbert Brun<br \/>\nSiegfried Fink<br \/>\nWilliam Brooks<br \/>\nMichael Udow<br \/>\nBarney Childs<br \/>\nJohn Welsh<br \/>\nJohn Cage<br \/>\nAllen Otte<br \/>\nThomas DeLio<br \/>\nDan Senn<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Volume 3 includes compositions from the following composers:<\/p>\n<p>Sydney Hodkinson<br \/>\nAlvin Lucier<br \/>\nChristian Wolff<br \/>\nKyle Gann<br \/>\nJohn Bergamo<br \/>\nAnnea Lockwood<br \/>\nJohn Jeffrey Gibbens<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Volume 4 includes compositions from the following composers:<\/p>\n<p>Eugene Novotney<br \/>\nRalph Shapey<br \/>\nTom Pierson<br \/>\nSalvatore Martirano<br \/>\nLarry Austin<br \/>\nRobert Ashley<br \/>\nWilliam Ortiz<br \/>\nPauline Oliveros<\/p>\n<p>Annotated by WanNing Chen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stuart Saunders Smith &#8211; Noble Snare Whenever I listened to a snare drum roll, I was struck by the complexity of the sound itself. Far from a non-pitched instrument, the snare drum sounded like an ocean of sound &#8211; virtually every pitch represented &#8211; with subtle waves and currents. The snare drum has always seemed [&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\/694"}],"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=694"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/percdb.szsolomon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":695,"href":"http:\/\/percdb.szsolomon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694\/revisions\/695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/percdb.szsolomon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/percdb.szsolomon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/percdb.szsolomon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}