There is an Aristotelian notion that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. This is a concept known as emergence. In his quintet Amidst, John Ling has taken this concept to heart,

In Black Racer, Brian Blume has crafted an effective piece for intermediate percussion quartets to hone their chamber ensemble skills while communicating intensity and musical sensitivity. Each

Brush Hour is Alex Stopa's homage to the great brush masters from the early twentieth century. In it, Stopa introduces some of the most common brush patterns and techniques used in a jazz setting.

Crystals was composed for young percussionists who have been living in a world of battery percussion and are now taking their first steps into mallet playing. Each performer is given a limited

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Eine kleine Nachtmusik is a quintessential piece from the Classical period. It combines very stable harmonies with very clear resolutions, a strong sense of melody and

This work is great for developing percussionists to work on ensemble performance while being accessible to many levels. The piece is built around catchy pop riffs and grooves that give subtle hints at

Watch out, The Floor Is Lava! This flexible percussion ensemble work is a nod to the childhood game of the same name. With a running path of sixteenth notes scored entirely for accessory percussion

Here is a fantastic arrangement of Married Life, the Oscar-winning main theme from Pixar's "Up." Composer Michael Giacchino perfectly captures the sentiment and poignancy of the film's opening

A beautiful and captivating piece that uses only simple elements. When each mallet part is isolated, it is constructed of very simple musical material. However, when, all of the parts are combined, they

This arrangement of Edward Elgar’s Nimrod affords young mallet players the opportunity to experience and perform one of the standard orchestral repertoire's most beautiful and iconic pieces.

Perpetuo, as the title suggests, is largely made up of driving 16th-note figures that cohere from player to player, creating the feeling of constant motion. The piece was written for young

This pointilistic percussion quartet, Sand, is written in a minimalist style relying on the players to maintain a good internal pulse and place their sparse notes exactly in time. In the piece,

Upbeat Suite is an arrangement for percussion quartet of three orchestral excerpts that share common rhythmic elements of upbeat, or 2-beat, feels: Dance of the Little Swans by

Yurikago is a Japanese folk song by composer Shinsaku Kusakawa. In her description of the piece, arranger Rika Fujii states that it is a song her mother used to sing to her as a