Composition Date: 2015
Duration: 00:08:12
Genre: Percussion, Solo / Ensemble, No Keyboard

Instrumentation:

Instrumentation Set Number 1:

• 1 x Vibraphone
• 1 x Percussion
• 1 x Percussion
• 1 x Percussion

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Programme Note:
Chain maille (otherwise known as mail) is a type of armour consisting of small metal rings linked together in a pattern to form a protective mesh. With an exclusively metal timbral palette, this percussion quartet explores the concept of chain maille from several entry points – using the mesh pattern as fodder for musical material, examining associations of its medieval history, and most directly, using a chain maille hood as a percussion instrument. chain maille also investigates the idea of armour – the heavy armour we carry to protect against harm, both physical and emotional. chain maille is the first in a set of a multiple-work piece based on the history and associations of various textiles/patterns. In each of these works, the textile or pattern is used both as inspiration (history, tone, physical characteristics) and as a physically present element, either visually or sonically.

Premiere Information:
29 October 2015, Sam Houston University, Huntsville, USA
Sam Houston Percussion Ensemble, directed by John Lane

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CATALOGUE INFO:

• Call Number:
• MI 7110 P357cha
• Genre:
• Percussion, Solo / Ensemble, No Keyboard
• Date of Acquisition:
• April 12, 2017
• Type:
• Print-music, Published by CMC
• Physical Description:
• Score
  24 Pages
  Height: 30 cm
  Width: 23 cm
  Parts page count: 27
  4 Parts
  27 Pages
  Height: 30 cm
  Width: 23 cm
  
• Additional Information:
• Percussion List:
  Three metal bowls: small, medium, large
  Crotales
  Almglocken
  Suspended Cymbal
  Glockenspiels
  Thunder tube
  Tam-Tam (medium)
  Prepared vibraphone
  Miscellaneous: copper bits, washers, screws, chain maille garment, tambourine zill,
  binder clips, clamps.
  
  Commissioned by: Sam Houston Percussion Ensemble
  

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