OX AND LAMB SOLO COLLECTION

FOR SOLO MULTIPLE PERCUSSION

By KEITH ALEO
 for solo percussion by Keith Aleo
keithaleo.com

Setup and Performance Notes Movement 1 - Woodblocks

This movement is scored for three wood blocks or temple
blocks. The sounds should be low in pitch and not too piercing in
their sounds. Yarn mallets should be used, and should be hard
enough to produce clarity, but not too harsh. A handle castanet
is used directly on the low woodblock as if it were a mallet and
the sound of the woodblock/castanet together should produce
a distinctly different sound.

Movement 2 - Triangles
The two triangles should be mounted on a Black Swamp
RecPlate to eliminate any external sounds, insuring the purity of
only the triangle sound. Larger triangles, 8” and 10”, would be
preferable for their long sustain and warm sound.

Movement 3 - Tambourines
The three tambourines should be laid flat on a table covered
with foam to allow the instruments to sound when the
performer strikes them with their hands, fingers, and fists.
Techniques for playing are guided by indications in the score,
but different techniques and interpretations are encouraged.
The three tambourines should be clearly pitched low, medium,
high, from left to right.

Program Notes

I’ve always been fascinated by polyrhythms; teaching them, playing them, and seeing them in music. I find myself
tapping them out on my legs as I’m walking somewhere; 2 against 3, then 3 against 2, the same rhythm with a different
feel. There’s nothing like a polyrhythm that grooves! In 2016, when the Black Swamp Percussion Company approached
me about writing a piece for their instruments, I conceived a piece based on polyrhythms. Each of the three movements
is inspired by a different polyrhythm and is scored for a different set of Black Swamp instruments; movement 1 for three
woodblocks or temple blocks, movement 2 for two triangles, and movement 3 for three tambourines.

The name Tupelo comes from a type of tree that grows in swamps in my native home of Florida.

Tupelo by Keith Aleo

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Three low wood blocks or temple blocks
Hard yarn mallets Keith Aleo
I.
Wood Blocks

Vivace q=152
4 3 4
4 8 4
fp f fp
5
5 4 7
8 4 8
f fp
9
7 4 9
8 4 8
f fp
12
9 4
8 4
f p
15
3
4
p fp fp
19
2 1 1
4 4 4
f
26
1 4
4 4
ff p
31 LH - Hand castanet struck

4 3
on low woodblock

4 4
pp
sub. mf
36 mf RH - Hard rubber mallet

3 4 3 4 3 4
4 4 4 4 4 4
mp
LH - (Castanet on woodblock)
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Mvt I, page 2 of 2

41
4 3 4 3 4 3
4 4 4 4 4 4

46
3
4

51

56 dim. RH only...
niente
4
4
cresc LH only...

62 RH to hard pp cresc RH only... f RH - Hard yarn mallet

e.=q
4
yarn mallets

4
LH - Hard yarn mallet
f dim. LH only... niente

68
Tempo I
RH stay f Both hands - Hard yarn
4
4
pp cresc LH only... ff fp
cresc both hands...

73
3 4 5 4
8 4 8 4
f fp f

78
4 7 4
4 8 4
fp f
High triangle
81 L.V.
4 9
4 8
a acca movement II
fp f ff
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Two mounted triangles
Hard yarn mallets
Triangle beaters Keith Aleo
II.
Enter niente while high triangle is s ll Triangles
ringing from 1st movement
10" Freely
10"
5
4
pp mf

3 Adagio q=80 pp RH - ra an cresc RH only

RH - flip to ra an

mp LH - yarn dim LH only...

q=60
7 q_x=q
mp

LH - to metal
niente

11 dim RH only... niente

pp LH - metal cresc LH only

q=45 pp RH - metal cresc RH only

15
q_x=q RH - to metal

mp dim LH only...
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19 q_x=q
mp

niente

23
10"
Both hands begin dim. immediately

f
Freely
25 10"
As notes slow down........change to ra an........then to yarn... L.V.

ppp niente
a acca movement III
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Three graduated tambourines

^
(laid flat on foam)
Play with fingers/hands/fists
= play with fist Keith Aleo
III.
Tambourines
Allegro molto q=110+
fingers (simile)

6
8
f p
cresc bo om voice...

f
11

molto cresc both voices f dim both voices...

cresc top voice...
17

f
22

molto cresc both voices f dim both voices...

27

p cresc bo om voice...

33

molto cresc both voices f both voices

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38

p f

43

p f p

48

f p cresc...
with fingers
muffled
53

pp
molto ff

59

p mp p

65

4
mp p

70

4
mp p pp cresc...
pick up tambourine
76 shake roll

4
molto f f
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with fingers
82 muffled

4
p f pp p f

shake roll with fingers

88 muffled

6 f p f pp 4 p

shake roll with fingers

94 muffled
4

3
f 4 f p f pp

101

4
p f 6 p

106

molto cresc e rit

Tempo I
shake roll slam tamb.
110 on table 4

ff pp ff
August 2016
Interlochen, MI
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