Commande du Choeur Britten / Nicole Corti.Création le 15 avril 2014, à l'Auditorium du Grand Chalon (Chalon-sur-Saône), par Jean Geoffroy. / Percussions

27 original works for marimba ranging in very easy through intermediate levels. The pieces utilize a variety of keys meters styles and also include some 3 and 4 mallet solos. Includes: Gypsy Dance • Love Song •Perpetual Motion • Sharpie • Tres Blues (3 mallets) • Twist-A-Wrist (4 mallets) • Winter Walk • and more.

This book contains a lot of music from musical etudes designed for beginning and intermediate players to recital material appropriate for intermediate and advanced players. This book includes:Examples takne from contemporary solo and chamber works for Marimba with Nancy's commentary and performance tips.50 studies that will develop essential four-mallet technique in a musical way.18 sols that appropriate for recitals auditions or juries including works by Beethoven Handel Debussy Leonard Bernstein and Duke Ellington.Guidelines for mallet selection four-mallet grip strokes tone production rolls stickings phrasing buildinga personal repertoire and other topics that are crucial for today's successful marimbist.

Self-taught American composer Paul Creston devoted his energies to composition only from 1932 and recgogition was slow to come but when the accolades and honors did arrive they were many and impressive. Creston's music is distinctly tonal in the modern American idiom and possessed of a strong rhythmic sense. This 'Concertino' is approximately 15 minutes long. Reduction for marimba and piano. Orchestral parts are available on rental from G. Schirmer.

Bring mallets to 16 masterpieces by the Fab Four including: And I Love Her Blackbird Eleanor Rigby Hey Jude Let It Be Maxwell's Silver Hammer Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown) When I'm Sixty-Four Yesterday and more.

Instrumental Play-Along-Solo arrangements of 14 well-known melodies are featured in this collection for beginning instrumentalists. It features online access to audio demonstration tracks for download or streaming to help you hear how the song should sound and so you can sound great while playing along with the backing tracks! Songs include: All of Me ? Evermore ? Hallelujah ? Happy ? I Gotta Feeling ? I'm Yours ? Lava ? Rolling in the Deep ? Viva la Vida ? You Raise Me Up and more. The audio is accessed online using the unique code inside each book and can be streamed or downloaded. The audio files include PLAYBACK amulti-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch set loop points change keys and pan left or right.

The purpose of this volume is to provide the intermediate mallet player with musical materials which will:Develop ensemble skills through duet performance.Develop fundamental 3 and 4 mallet skills.Develop technique. Develop an awareness of musical styles.Develop sensitivity to musical detail.