SCV 2000 - Bartok Percussion Score

These are some sample pages from the percussion score to the 2000 Santa Clara Vanguard Bartok production "Age of Reverence."

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Santa
• Clara
• Vanguard
• drumline
• percussion
• Bartok
• Jim
• Casella

[neoclassicaljazz]

I love your writing man. Did you go to school for composition or anything like that? and are you proficient with playing melodic percussion instruments? I've written for some high school drumlines but I'm not in college yet. I was just wondering if you have any advice or tips on writing and arranging percussion parts. Thanks a lot!

[jimcasella]

@neoclassicaljazz Thanks. I was a performance major, so I studied all percussion instruments. It definitely helped to have played piano as a kid before I started playing drums. But the best advice I could offer for writing music is to write a lot, and listen to anything and everything. The more you listen to different types of music, the more you learn how to communicate via music.

[ABruce]

Thanks for posting, Jim! This was the first score of yours that I ever heard. I'm glad to have had the chance to play your music when I aged-out!

[jimcasella]

@ABruce Thanks Adam! Likewise!

[neoclassicaljazz]

Thanks for the advice! It is very much appreciated! :)

[spursfan4life]

this was GENIUS!! 

[sibelius791]

Jim Casella is the best DCI percussion writer ever. 

[sliqjonz]

awesome doesn't even begin to describe this! this was the show that cemented me wanting to march SCV, and made me wish i had tried out for 2K

[theprodegy12]

this is awesome!!