Dave Flynn
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Hyper-Reel (2010) 3'
for
Solo Percussion
(Marimba & Woodblock)

_Commissioned and premiered by Cameron Kennedy. November 2010, Queensland Conservatory of Music, Brisbane, Australia.

Demo Recording made by Cameron Kennedy in February 2012 is below.

Programme Note

_This is a piece containing a newly composed tune in the style of a reel. The reel is the most commonly played tune form
in traditional Irish dance music. In tune collections reels are usually notated in 4/4 as streams of constant quavers without
any ornamentation, articulation or rhythmic deviation.

In practice, traditional musicians add a lot more detail to this skeleton notation.

A good traditional musician will constantly vary the tune melodically and rhythmically, some musicians even
add extra beats which take the music out of a regular 4/4 beat. Musicians will also regularly change phrasing so
that different rhythmic divisions like a 3+3+2 (8/8) rhythm might occur. I use this 8/8 rhythm a lot in this piece.

The tune goes through variation techniques derived from traditional Irish music, including ornamentations known as cuts
and trebles and the note flexibility which means some notes can be natural the first time the tune is played but sharp or
flat the next time.

The performer is expected to spontaneously vary the rhythmic articulations and phrasing in a manner in keeping
with traditional Irish music.
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      • Mná Brian Boru
      • The Clare Concerto
      • Aontacht
      • Music for the Departed (version for fiddle, violin, guitar & strings 2010)
      • The Man from Maghera Rambles Through Africa
      • Mesh
      • Echoes of Bamako
      • An Irish Farrago
      • ‘The Mountain Lark/Tom Doherty’s Reel’
    • Solo Guitar Works >
      • An Irish Raga
      • The Mahatma of the Glen
      • Four Études for Five Fingers
      • Three Gymn O’Paddy’s
      • 5to9
      • Two Minimalist Etudes
      • Passacaglia
      • Rainstorm
      • Homage Sonatina
      • Rollercoaster
    • Guitar Quartets >
      • Sebene
      • Against Feldman
      • Cran Óg
      • Kora
      • Chimurenga
    • String Quartets >
      • Quartet No.3 - The Keening
      • Quartet No.2 - The Cranning
      • Quartet No.1 - Fairground Attractions
    • Ensemble Works >
      • Joy
      • Le Chéile is in Aonar
      • Stories from the Old World
      • Manipulations
      • Polymetric Cycles
    • Irish Tunes >
      • Aontacht Tunes
      • Clare Concerto Tunes
      • Draíocht Tunes
      • Errigal Suite Tunes
      • An Inishbofin Wedding
      • Music for the Departed Tunes
      • Ómos Do Frankie Kennedy Tunes
      • Miscellaneous Tunes >
        • The Tempest in Mali
        • Byrne's Daughters - Highland
        • The Barndance Between
        • The Bright Reel
        • Hearts of Gold
        • The Martin-Lina Rumba Reel
        • The MAWFE
        • Sibelius' Reel
        • Tourish's Tour Around the Box
        • A Tune for Charlie
        • Simple and Strange
    • Chamber Works >
      • Quirks >
        • Quirk No.7
        • Quirk No.6
        • Quirk No.5
        • Quirk No.4
        • Quirk No.3
        • Quirk No.2
        • Quirk No.1
      • Errigal Suite
      • Music for the Departed (Trio version)
      • Ómos do Frankie Kennedy
      • Tar Eís an Cran
      • 7/11
    • Miscellaneous Solo Works >
      • The Longest Reel (Solo Fiddle)
      • Tar Éis an Caoineadh (Solo violin/fiddle)
      • Five Études for Uilleann Pipes
      • 7/11 (piano)
      • 12 Tone Bach (piano)
      • Hyper-Reel (Percussion)
    • Vocal/Choral Works >
      • Protest Song; Chanson de Protestation; Amhrán Agóid; Protesta Cancion
      • Liadain agus Cuirithir
      • Taibhreamh Ó Ríada
      • Full Circle
      • Two Nonsense Songs
      • I Have Always Known
      • Relax
    • Electro-Acoustic Works >
      • The Forest of Ornaments
      • The Valley of the Lunatics
      • Electric Guichair
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  • mORE....
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