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Music for a Child’s Adventure is a larger-scale work for solo marimba that takes the audience on a journey through a seven-year-old’s epic make-believe adventure. The child leaves home, becomes scared and homesick, and rushes back in time for dinner!
1993 is meant to emulate the background music to the first level of a video game. Its cheerful quality and simple form and harmony reflect the simplicity of life as a child.
1993 is meant to emulate the background music to the first level of a video game. Its cheerful quality and simple form and harmony reflect the simplicity of life as a child.
Digital Dances is a difficult work for marimba quartet heavily inspired by electronic dance music. Its dance-like rhythms, unyielding intensity, and heavy bass keep the players and listeners moving throughout the five sections.
Digital Dances is a difficult work for marimba quartet heavily inspired by electronic dance music. Its dance-like rhythms, unyielding intensity, and heavy bass keep the players and listeners moving throughout the five sections.
Music for a Child’s Adventure is a larger-scale work for solo marimba that takes the audience on a journey through a seven-year-old’s epic make-believe adventure. The child leaves home, becomes scared and homesick, and rushes back in time for dinner!
““Music for a Child’s Adventure” beautifully evokes the innocence and wonder of childhood. Anyone looking for under-graduate recital material should give this a try.”
— John Willmarth, Percussive Notes — July 2014
| Difficulty | Advanced |
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| Delivery Method | Print Copy, PDF Download, Print & PDF Versions |
Duet for two marimbasSkylark Orange Circles is dedicated to the wonderful Japanese marimba virtuoso, Momoko Kamiya. The music is very dance-like in quality, going over and over through mostly the same sequence of harmonies while melodic variations are developed. The melodic ideas become more and more like a bird (or flute) singing as the work progresses.
Duet for two marimbasSkylark Orange Circles is dedicated to the wonderful Japanese marimba virtuoso, Momoko Kamiya. The music is very dance-like in quality, going over and over through mostly the same sequence of harmonies while melodic variations are developed. The melodic ideas become more and more like a bird (or flute) singing as the work progresses.
A companion to Four-Mallet Method for Marimba; 45 solos that focus on double vertical strokes, single alternating strokes, rolls, and single independent strokes.
A companion to Four-Mallet Method for Marimba; 45 solos that focus on double vertical strokes, single alternating strokes, rolls, and single independent strokes.
The arrangement Bob Becker made for NEXUS which has caught the attention of audiences and percussionists around the world and created a whole new fascination with the xylophone as a solo instrument. The accompaniments require four players performing on a minimum of two marimbas.
The arrangement Bob Becker made for NEXUS which has caught the attention of audiences and percussionists around the world and created a whole new fascination with the xylophone as a solo instrument. The accompaniments require four players performing on a minimum of two marimbas.
An excellent collection of keyboard, timpani, snare drum and multi-perc solos suitable for college auditions.
An excellent collection of keyboard, timpani, snare drum and multi-perc solos suitable for college auditions.
In Twilight, Brostrom focuses on basic ideas of chords and color transformation. An example of this occurs in the opening phrase as chords are passed off from duo to duo. “Twilight” is defined as “the light from the sky between full night and sunrise or between sunset and full night” or simply as “an intermediate state that is not clearly defined.” (Intermediate to Advanced)Duration 6:00.
In Twilight, Brostrom focuses on basic ideas of chords and color transformation. An example of this occurs in the opening phrase as chords are passed off from duo to duo. “Twilight” is defined as “the light from the sky between full night and sunrise or between sunset and full night” or simply as “an intermediate state that is not clearly defined.” (Intermediate to Advanced)Duration 6:00.
Arranged for marimba quartet
Arranged for marimba quartet
For marimba duet with piano accompaniment
For marimba duet with piano accompaniment
A 4.3 marimba solo inspired by the Grateful Dead.
A 4.3 marimba solo inspired by the Grateful Dead.
