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I wrote Nuevo-Nueve
for an ensemble of nine new first-time percussion students. "Nuevo" meaning new or different, and "Nueve"
meaning "nine", seemed to be a good title for the piece. Going along with the concept of nine, the
song is written in nine bar phrases and has a total of 99 measures as well. It uses simple and repetitive patterns to
introduce students to the instruments that are utilized in the piece. Out of the nine students that I originally
wrote it for, six were wind players and the other three had never read
music. They had great success with it
(and a lot of fun, too!).
The first four
parts are all listed as generic mallet parts, and all work pretty well with
whatever mallet instruments that you have available. Part 3 and 4 double each other, but part 4 is
in bass clef. They are written on the
same sheet. If you have the equipment
for it, I recommend the following instrumentation:
Part 1: bells or
marimba
Part 2: vibraphone
Part 3: marimba
Part 4: (optional, bass clef, doubles part 3): bass guitar, keyboard, or mallet controller
Part 5: hi-hat
cymbal, suspended cymbal, mounted tambourine
Part 6: guiro,
castanets, maracas, two pitched toms
Part 7: drum set
Part 8: suspended
cymbal, china cymbal, splash cymbal, triangle
Part 9: concert bass
drum, cabasa
Be sure to check out my other small ensemble arrangements here on Sheet Music Plus, and thanks for taking a look!
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