Etude Classique for Snare Drum - 5 min.; orchestral style mixed with samba, waltz, march and Scottish traditionals; advanced

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Etude Classique was composed 1978 and has been played widely in Scandinavia at concerts and auditions. The piece is linked to traditional orchestra playing through its use of small excerpts from the orchestra repertoire. But these excerpts are involved in a broader context demonstrating many different styles of playing the snare drum including a quick samba, a waltz and different marches, everything ending up with traditional Scottish marching music. The small excerpts are from Rimsky-Korsakov’s Sheherazade, Alexander Borodin’s Polovtsian Dances and Sergei Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf.