Programme Note
Poul Ruders WIND-DRUMMING
WIND-DRUMMING was written in 1979 on a commission from The Danish Percussion Ensemble.
The piece is a clash of two kinds of sound-associations; the mystic, exotic impact of Latin-American drumming, and the more well dressed reputation of Western concert-instruments, in this case a wind-quintet (w. electric flute).
The two instrumental camps either melt into one soft humming ritual or are split wide apart, the winds tearing their way through the undergrowth of rainforest-drumming. There is more than one way of getting on to WIND-DRUMMING: obviously it is about the confrontation of two incongruent ways of living, a lament on the damage done to the tropical rainforests of the world by modern civilisation. One can hear it plainly as a direct rhythm-show, a downright number or a joyous homage to the most exiting kind of folkloristic music at all: the carnal spell of the Brazilian Samba.
Poul Ruders
| Arrangement | Orchestra, Percussion, Wind Ensemble |
| Genres | Post-1900 |
| Format | Score |
| Level | 5 |
| NumberOfPages | 56 |
| Media | Sheet Music |
| Publisher | Edition Wilhelm Hansen, Edition Wilhelm Hansen AS |
| Contributors | Ruders, Poul (Composer) |
| ISBN | 978-87-598-2748-2 |