From the Ground Up
General Info
Year: 2011 / 2013
Duration: c. 10:30
Difficulty: (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Keyboard Percussion Publications
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $68.00
Instrumentation
Full Score
Solo Drumset
Percussion I–VII (7 players), including:
- Bass Drum
- Bell Plates (2: graduated)
- Bongos (2)
- Cabasa
- Congas (2)
- Crash Cymbal (medium; suspended)
- Crotales
- Glockenspiel
- Low Pipes (3: graduated)
- Marimba I-II
- Metal Pipes (3: graduated)
- Ride Cymbal (dark; dry)
- Sizzle Cymbal
- Snare Drum (piccolo)
- Suspended Cymbal (medium)
- Tam-tam (medium)
- Temple Blocks (5; wood)
- Tom-toms (2: medium and low)
- Triangle (dark)
- Vibraphone I-II
- Wood Block (medium)
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
Although the drumset player is the soloist, all parts are equally challenging and work together to build a complex tapestry of interlocking musical lines. There is a slow section sandwiched between two groove-oriented movements but they all flow seamlessly into one another. The work showcases a different character that shines throughout each movement and ends with a culmination of many themes followed by a glorious, yet unrelenting growing mass of sound.
From the Ground Up was named the second place winner from the 2012 Percussive Arts Society competition contest.
- Program Note from publisher
Awards
- Percussive Arts Society Composition Contest, 2012, 2nd Prize
Media
None discovered thus far.
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
Works for Winds by This Composer
- Dissolve (2014)
- From the Ground Up (2011/2013)
- Music for 5 Marimbas (2008/2013)
Resources
- Anthony Di Bartolo website. Accessed 1 January 2021
- Di Bartolo, A. [2013]. From the ground up [score]. Keyboard Percussion Publications: Asbury Park, N.J.