The Hammer & Anvil by Jake Garratt Sheet Music for Percussion Ensemble at Sheet Music Direct

Product Details

Artist Jake Garratt

Score Type

PDF, Included with PASS

Composer Jake Garratt

Format Digital Sheet Music

Pages 1

Arrangement Percussion Ensemble

Publisher J Garratt Composer

Level 3

Product ID 1125262

Genre Folk World Contemporary Standards

Performance Group Percussion Ensemble

Product Description

'The Hammer & Anvil' is the piece that adorns the balustrade of the band stand in Parade Gardens, Bath, UK. The band stand was forged by the National Heritage Ironwork Group as a gift to the city during their 2018 'BathIron' festival. The piece is written for 2 treble clef parts and a bass clef part and can be performed by any group of instruments. For the original performance it was performed on 2 Bb Clarinets and a Bass Clarinet.

About the piece:
'The Hammer & Anvil' is derived from the melody of an English folk song about a blacksmith (ironworker) which has been adapted and augmented to be used as a melodic foundation throughout the piece, similar to an isorhythm in medieval compositions. The piece is in two sections: the A section where the folk melody is confined to the bass and the B section where the melody is split between all three parts. A repeated rhythmic motif, representative of an ironworker using his hammer and anvil, is used to accompany and/or decorate this melody.

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