by S Z Solomon | May 26, 2021 | Keyboard Solos, Percussion Database
Skipping Stones (2021) Keeghan Fountain (born 1998) Marimba To tell musical stories, composer Keeghan Fountain likes the variety of textures and sounds of percussion instruments. For Skipping Stones, he wrote music featuring the marimba. He said the music...
by S Z Solomon | May 26, 2021 | Keyboard Solos, Percussion Database
Kazak Lullaby (2002) Keiko Abe (b.1937) Marimba Kazak is from Keiko Abe’s Three Monologues for Solo Marimba. The work includes a trio of short (about 6 minutes) marimba solos that heavily favor a more Western style of composition, unlike the Western/Japanese mix she...
by S Z Solomon | May 26, 2021 | Keyboard Solos, Repertoire Lists
Ripple (1999) Akira Miyoshi (1933-2013) Marimba Ripple is one of Miyoshi’s last composed marimba solos. It was written as an obligatory piece of the 2nd World Marimba Competition in Okaya, Japan. The title refers to the magma running under the crust of Japan and...
by S Z Solomon | May 25, 2021 | Keyboard Solos, Percussion Database
Argoru VII (1994) Alvin Singleton (1940) Solo Vibraphone “Argoru VII is an exercise in Alvin Singleton’s methods of extreme contrasts. Fast, ascending grace note scales are followed by soft, memory evocative long tones. The contrasts of the quick and the long passages...
by S Z Solomon | May 24, 2021 | Keyboard Solos, Percussion Database
Lauro, transcribed by Uzcategui – Suite Venezolana Category: Keyboard solo Title: Suite Venezolana (1951 – 1952) Composer: Antonio Lauro (1917 – 1986) Transcriber: Jose Uzcategui (b. 1997) Instrumentation: Marimba Program Note: Suite...
by S Z Solomon | May 24, 2021 | Keyboard Solos, Percussion Database
Carno – Suite “For A Marimba With A Mind of Its Own” Title: Suite “For A Marimba With A Mind of Its Own” (1981) Composer: Zita Carno (1935) Instrumentation: 4.3 Marimba Description: For a Marimba with a Mind of its Own by Zito Carno is a suite for solo...
