Prime Set

Complete Work Title: 

Prime Set


Performance Medium: 

solo multi-percussion set-up of 12 instruments: sleighbells, cowbell, brake drum, small gong, castañet, wood block, temple block, pod rattle, tambourine, 2 bongo drums, low tom-tom.


Duration: 

c.4:00


Dedication: 

to David Yoken


Date Composed: 

February - March 1985


Additional Information: 

• The work is a twelve-voice timbral canon based on the prime number series.
• The score utilizes a modified tablature-like notation that indicates specific timbres and mallets.


Performance History: 

Bruce Hamilton, percussion:
• 30 March 2001; Presidio Chapel (San Francisco, CA)
• 27 March 2001; Old Church (Portland, OR)
• 25 March 2001; Holy Trinity Church (Vancouver, BC, Canada)
• 23 March 2001; DAR House (Seattle, WA)

Kay Stonefelt, percussion:
• 18 May 1992; Carlton College (Northfield, MN)

Bruce Hamilton, percussion:
• 7 November 1989; Indiana University (Bloomington, IN)
• 29 April 1989; Indiana University (Bloomington, IN)

David Yoken, percussion:
• 26 April 1987; University of Jyväskylä, Finland
• 22 October 1985; University of California, San Diego [premiere]