Goblins

Item details

Description +
- Duration approx. 4 min.
Instrumentation +
- Percussion Quartet
  
  Player 1
  Tom (high)
  2 Bongos
  Cow Bell (low)
  Timbale (high)
  Susp. Cymbal (low)
  
  Player 2
  Tom (medium)
  2 Bongos
  Cow Bell (high)
  Timbale (low)
  Susp. Cymbal (low)
  Tambourine (on a stand)
  
  Player 3
  4 Timpani (F-Bb-C-F)
  
  Player 4
  Concert Bass Drum
  2 Toms (medium-low)
  2 Crash Susp. Cymbals (medium-high)
  3 Temple Blocks
  Triangle
  Metal Chimes
About the composer +
- Søren Monrad was classically trained at the Royal Danish Conservatory of Music. In 1978 he became a percussionist with the Royal Danish Orchestra and in 1982 he won the chair as solo timpanist in the same orchestra. At the same time, he also held down jobs with the Collegium Musicum, Royal Danish Brass and others. Add to that a comprehensive international career as a solo percussionist, playing with among others the Royal Danish Orchestra and the Odense Symphony Orchestra.
  
  He has also performed on several CD’s with the above mentioned ensembles on which composers such as Bartok, Crumb, Varese, Koppel and others are represented. Since 1985 he has been a lecturer at the Carl Nielsen Academy of Music in Odense, Denmark.
Credits +
- Front Cover graphics and layout: Nicola Lee
  Engraving: Tom Kohnen
  Printed in Copenhagen, Denmark
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  With support from Koda’s Cultural Funds