2025 | 16:40
Level: Grade 6
Scoring:
Station 1: Glockenspiel,Shaker, Chimes, Tambourine, Crotales, Zil-bel, Xylophone
Station 2: Crotales, Zil-Bel, Suspended Crotales in dipped in water, Mark Tree,
Xylophone, Maracas, Shaker, Chimes
Station 3: Vibraphone 1, Suspended Cymbal, Shaker
Station 4: Vibraphone 2, Suspended Cymbal, China Cymbal
Station 5: Vibraphone 3, Suspended Cymbal, Splash Cymbal, China Cymbal
Station 6: Vibraphone 4, Suspended Cymbal, Splash Cymbal
Station 7: Marimba 1, Suspended Cymbal
Station 8: Marimba 2, Suspended Cymbal
Station 9: Marimba 3, Suspended Cymbal
Station 10: Marimba 4, Suspended Cymbal
Station 11: Timpani, Upsidedown Cymbal, Individual Crotales
Station 12: Roto-Toms, Mark Tree
Station 13: Concert Toms, Tuned Gongs, Small Triangle, Medium Triangle, Large
Triangle, Djembe
Station 14: 2 Impact Drums, Waterphone, Multiple Bird Calls, Suspended Cymbal,
Taiko,
Station 15: Bass Drum, Tam-Tam, Ocean Drum, Suspended Cymbal, Impact Drums
(Mvmt. 2 & 3 Only) Station 16: Rain Stick, Crash Cymbal, Tam-Tam, Tuned Gongs,
Concert Bass, Flexatone
Station 16 (Mvmt. 2 Only): Concert Bass, Tam-Tam
Station 17: Drum Set
Program Note:
Through the Realm of Glass explores the fragile boundary between resonance and silence, between
reflection and distortion. Written for percussion ensemble, the work imagines sound as light moving
through a crystalline world, splintered, refracted, and recombined into new spectrums of color and
rhythm. Each movement captures a different stage of transformation, from chaos to clarity to energy.
I. Shattered
The opening movement begins with an explosion of fragments, sharp attacks, metallic resonances, and
abrupt silences. Its sound world evokes a pane of glass breaking in slow motion, as shards scatter and
spin. Within this shattered landscape, rhythmic fragments attempt to reassemble themselves, creating
tension between disorder and structure. The music’s edges are jagged, but the spaces between them
reveal moments of fragile stillness.
II. Prismatic Dreams
In contrast, the second movement offers warmth and lyricism. Here, light filters through the debris,
unfolding into a slow, dreamlike texture. Layered mallet patterns shimmer like refracted beams, and
melodic gestures emerge and dissolve as though drifting through a haze. This is the heart of the work, the
moment where reflection becomes introspection, and glass becomes a vessel for light rather than a
barrier against it.
III. Vitrion
The finale transforms the ethereal into the kinetic. Vitrion, derived from vitrum, Latin for glass, suggests
both the material and the energy it contains. Rhythmic motives fracture and recombine, propelling the
ensemble forward with urgency and brilliance. What was once static now vibrates with life, culminating
in a final convergence of sound and motion: the moment when the realm of glass no longer confines
light, but radiates it outward.
2025 | 16:40
Level: Grade 6
Scoring:
Station 1: Glockenspiel,Shaker, Chimes, Tambourine, Crotales, Zil-bel, Xylophone
Station 2: Crotales, Zil-Bel, Suspended Crotales in dipped in water, Mark Tree,
Xylophone, Maracas, Shaker, Chimes
Station 3: Vibraphone 1, Suspended Cymbal, Shaker
Station 4: Vibraphone 2, Suspended Cymbal, China Cymbal
Station 5: Vibraphone 3, Suspended Cymbal, Splash Cymbal, China Cymbal
Station 6: Vibraphone 4, Suspended Cymbal, Splash Cymbal
Station 7: Marimba 1, Suspended Cymbal
Station 8: Marimba 2, Suspended Cymbal
Station 9: Marimba 3, Suspended Cymbal
Station 10: Marimba 4, Suspended Cymbal
Station 11: Timpani, Upsidedown Cymbal, Individual Crotales
Station 12: Roto-Toms, Mark Tree
Station 13: Concert Toms, Tuned Gongs, Small Triangle, Medium Triangle, Large
Triangle, Djembe
Station 14: 2 Impact Drums, Waterphone, Multiple Bird Calls, Suspended Cymbal,
Taiko,
Station 15: Bass Drum, Tam-Tam, Ocean Drum, Suspended Cymbal, Impact Drums
(Mvmt. 2 & 3 Only) Station 16: Rain Stick, Crash Cymbal, Tam-Tam, Tuned Gongs,
Concert Bass, Flexatone
Station 16 (Mvmt. 2 Only): Concert Bass, Tam-Tam
Station 17: Drum Set
Program Note:
Through the Realm of Glass explores the fragile boundary between resonance and silence, between
reflection and distortion. Written for percussion ensemble, the work imagines sound as light moving
through a crystalline world, splintered, refracted, and recombined into new spectrums of color and
rhythm. Each movement captures a different stage of transformation, from chaos to clarity to energy.
I. Shattered
The opening movement begins with an explosion of fragments, sharp attacks, metallic resonances, and
abrupt silences. Its sound world evokes a pane of glass breaking in slow motion, as shards scatter and
spin. Within this shattered landscape, rhythmic fragments attempt to reassemble themselves, creating
tension between disorder and structure. The music’s edges are jagged, but the spaces between them
reveal moments of fragile stillness.
II. Prismatic Dreams
In contrast, the second movement offers warmth and lyricism. Here, light filters through the debris,
unfolding into a slow, dreamlike texture. Layered mallet patterns shimmer like refracted beams, and
melodic gestures emerge and dissolve as though drifting through a haze. This is the heart of the work, the
moment where reflection becomes introspection, and glass becomes a vessel for light rather than a
barrier against it.
III. Vitrion
The finale transforms the ethereal into the kinetic. Vitrion, derived from vitrum, Latin for glass, suggests
both the material and the energy it contains. Rhythmic motives fracture and recombine, propelling the
ensemble forward with urgency and brilliance. What was once static now vibrates with life, culminating
in a final convergence of sound and motion: the moment when the realm of glass no longer confines
light, but radiates it outward.
