Conversation

Bobby Lopez

2 Players

Medium/Advanced Duet for Two Tambourines

Instrumentation: 

• 2 tambourines (with heads)

Conversation for Two Tambourines by Bobby Lopez is a fun duet for headed tambourines that showcases techniques (both commonplace and otherwise) often found in orchestral tambourine playing. The piece is a running dialog between the two players as they execute articulated grace notes, pianissimo rolls, thumb rolls, and a variety of articulations. Conversation brings to the forefront the complexity, control, and variety of techniques that are required to play this instrument well.

This piece comes as a professionally printed and bound score and includes individual parts in PDF format for printing or for tablet viewing.