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Pandemonium Rules!
Orff Instrument Arrangements of Steel Band Music
Deborah Fischer Teason
and Gage Averill,
with Pandemonium Steel Band
ISBN 0-937203-62-9 Book/audio
cassette SET $14.95
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up your Orff ensemble with this hot introduction to the steel band
tradition of Trinidad, via Pandemonium, a Wesleyan University-based
steel band and one of the best in the US!
Pandemonium Rules! features authentic steel band pieces scored
for Orff instruments. The authors join forces with Pandemonium Steel
Band to bring you the sound, the sense and the excitement of pan
for your Orff-based music classroom.
With additional contributions to the cultural and historical context
by Mackie Burnette, director of the Brown University Trinidadian
Steel Band Ensemble and a well-known Trinidadian pan man, you'll
have all you need to fill your students in on the development of
steel bands in the Caribbean, and the thriving pan scene around
the world today.
Give them the context, then let them loose on the music with their
Orff instruments! The sound is irresistible...your class will fly
to their xylophones, ready to swing!
The 8 1/2 x 11 book includes:
- Cultural and historical background
- Map
- Photos of instruments of the steel band and of Pandemonium in
action
- Charts for arranging your Orff ensemble
- Instructions on how to set up an "engine room" (the
un-pitched percussion section that drives the band)
- Copy-OK transcriptions for "Miss Mary," "Linstead
Market" and "Rivers of Babylon" suitable for grades
3 and up (These sound amazingly like "the real thing.")
- Suggestions for performance for each piece
The companion Audio Cassette includes:
- Performances by Pandemonium Steel Band
- Synthesizer demos of each piece as arranged for Orff Instrument
- Students may copy the tape to play at home
About the Authors
Deborah Fischer Teason is a composer, performer in Pandemonium,
and innovative music teacher at the Cold Spring School in New Haven
CT.
Gage Averill grew up spending much time in the Caribbean, accompanying
his father, who worked in the oil business, on trips. From his first
contact with a pan ensemble, at the age of seven, Gage fell in love
with the sound and energy. He is a Caribbeanist ethnomusicologist
who is on the faculty at Wesleyan University (CT) and director of
Pandemonium Steel Band.
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