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Invention for Tibetan Drum no. 2 - Rh 151

from Inventions for Tibetan Drum by Julian Broadhurst Drum Music

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Drum music 8, Dm 8 and my 28th Album - the first 'New' Album in the 'New Order' - after I organised all my prior works into 27 volumes. This is another set of 'inventions', after the models of my 'Inventions for Shamanic Drum' [Dm 1], and my 'First inventions for Djembe' [Dm 6]. I

t had been my ambition to create many such sets of inventions for various types of drum, the more difficult the project, the more attractive to my motivation. In this case, the 'Tibetan Drum' being the most seemingly limited in range, so the more interesting the project, in terms of invention. This long thin drum has a bass skin about 12 cm across and a top ‘High end' about 8 cm across. The high end, has a loud ping of a rim shot in sharp contrast to the middle, whereas the lower ends seems much more mellow and indistinct. A difficult instrument to create extended and exciting music for ? No, a joy - Subtlety being the word here. I came across this beautiful instrument in an Oriental Curiosities shop. They had two, one highly coloured, and little more than an ornament. The other a plain wood, but very obviously a versatile instrument. I used it in the first 4 Dm sonatas on my album ‘5 Sonatas, Dm 2.’

An early reorganization of my music research interests had defined my music into dedicated sets of Albums. This way things of a kin got heard together - as one type of album or another - by Genre - or Tranche as I styled them. In this Case Drum music, Dm - 'Percussion specifically on Drums' - of many kinds - as a speciality.

Albums number 28 to 58 form my second big publishing Project or Group - the 'New Horizon' - built on the foundational 'Blue Cherry' group [after a friend] - where I had introduced my 5 areas of research interest as Blocks of dedicated albums. Now in a new air I felt free to just reel them of as they came. Exploring like a man with a Time machine where these five genres, or Tranches, might lead me.

There are 5 Dm albums in the New Horizon Group, Dm 8 to 12. Dm 8 is the 'Inventions for Tibetan Drum', Dm 9 is the Concert piece 'Sonata for 3 Drums' and the other three - spread randomly across the group - are collections of Drum studies. In the previous Group - the foundational Blue Cherry group - they were volumes of Drum Studio Studies, for drum - after my first Studio. With a radical upgrade it became the Isabel Studio - so the new studies became the Isabel Drum studies - Dm 10, 11 and 12.

The DCM album numbers [topmost line on the covers] -''my umpteenth album' - are the volume numbers in a [for the most part] chronological edition.- The DCM Broadhurst Edition - completed for the British Library in 2018. The Volumes or Albums themselves were actually released as and when it was possible. The Edition though, was planed from the start to stand on the 'foundation Stone' of the Blue Cherry group.

The Rh catalogue, numbers my individual works in order of Completion

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from Inventions for Tibetan Drum, released July 16, 2013

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