Anyone Can Play: Thirteen Pieces for Open Ensemble

open variable instrumentation

These thirteen pieces for open ensemble, written across a period of fifty years, explore flexible areas of music - in ensemble type and size, in structure and form, and in graphic notation. This anthology was created to give new music ensembles at schools a flexible, easy way to explore new types of music.

ANYONE CAN PLAY is thus divided into three sections: Text-Based Scores, Stave-Based Scores, and Graphic Scores.

This anthology was curated by Jody Rockmaker.

Contents:

Text-Based   - Philip Carlsen: Tu(r)ning (2013), for any number of improvisers   - Richard Cameron-Wolfe: En Garde/Detente (2022), for any two musicians

Stave-Based  - Robert Carl: Changing My Spots (2005), for group improvisation  - Marilyn Shrude: Trope (2007), for variable ensemble  - Scott L. Miller: Admiration (2017), for instrument(s) and fixed-media electronics  - Jody Rockmaker: Gestures (2018), for any four melodic instruments  - Randall Snyder: Meditation for a Dark Age (2020), for any four instruments  - Jody Rockmaker: Anyone Can Play! (2022), for any four melodic instruments

Graphic  - Richard Moryl: Strobe (1972), for variable orchestra  - Paul Martin Zonn: Yodeling in the Gully (1984), for at least three instruments  - Matthew Welch: Symphony of Drones No. 2 (2002), for variable instrumentation  - Peter Tod Lewis: ALCAZAR III (1972), for at least four instruments