TOYAMA

for Multiples of Two Percussionists

Michael W. Udow

www.MichaelUdow.com

EQUILIBRIUM
 TOYAMA Michael W. Udow

composed for Keiko Abe

and the Toho Gakuen College of Music and
University of Michigan Percussion Ensembles.

NUMBER OF PERFORMERS: 2 - Unlimited provided the integrity of rhythmic alighment and timbre
interest is viable.

INSTRUMENTATION: Hand-Clapping or any number of unspecified instruments - performers choice.

Should you choose multiple instruments and/or multiple timbres, you may set exactly when to change
instruments or randomly improvise shifting from instruments.

DYNAMICS: Hand-Clapping: Sempre f Instruments: change dynamics to create interesting

combinations of tones and/or timbres.

TEMPO: indication is merely a guide; whoose the tempo that best works for your realizaion. e=196

The performers begin in unison playing the first sounded beat, an 1/8 note for a
total of four times, then add the next sounded beat, a 1/16 note to the first 1/8 = a 3/16 measure and play
it for a total of four times. To that, add the nexted sounded beat a 1/16 tied to a 1/16 which equals the
length of an 1/8 note and add that to the previous two sounded notes = 5/16 measure and play that four
times, etc. until you build thepattern up to the full 4/4 measure which is played for a total of tour times
and then ending with a unison downbeat.

As the entire work is based on this one measure (below), it is intended that Toyama would always be
memorized for performance.

4 œ.
ã 4 œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ
Motivic Structure

4
&4 ∑

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Copyright: Michael W. Udow ; March 1, 1993
 1 3 .. œ 5 .. œ
e=196

ã 8 .. œJ .. 16 œ .. 16 œ œ ..
4 x total 4 x total 4 x total
1
Player I J

1 .. œj 3 .. œ
.. 16 5 .. œ
.. 16 j ..
4 x total 4 x total 4 x total

&8 œ œ œ
1
Player II

7 2 œ .. 85 .. œ œ œ œ œ œ œ ..
ã 16 .. œ œ œ œ .. 4 .. œ œ œ œ œ
4 4 x total 4 x total 4 x total

4 x total

7 2 œ .. 85 .. œ œ œ œ œ œ œ ..
4 x total 4 x total

& 16 .. œ œ œ œ .. 4 .. œ
4

œ œ œ œ

3 .. 13
ã 4 .. œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ 16 .. œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ ..
7 4 x total 4 x total

4 x total

3 .. 13
4 x total

& 4 .. œ 16 .. œ œ ..
7

œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ

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 Contine to play this measure through

4
ã 4 .. œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ . .. œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ.
9 Play 3 times total the remainder of the composition.

Contine to play this four measure sequence phasing at the 1/16th note through
the entire cycle, reaching the unison rhythm again indicated at Measure 11.
Play 3 times total

4 15
& 4 .. œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ . .. 16 œ œ œ œ œ
9

œ œ œ œ œ

.. œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ . .. Uœ Œ Ó
11 4x

ã
f
4x
U
4
& 4 .. œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ . .. œ Œ Ó
11

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