SKU: TA.TSPB-44
In Mainstream Mallets, Jason Hammond-Wood has compiled over 20 short, 2-mallet solos with optional piano accompaniment to challenge more experienced middle school students while offering high school percussionists more performance opportunities. All selections are familiar tunes, including classical favorites such as The Nutcracker, Sleeping Beauty, Anitra's Dance (from Peer Gynt), and The Barber of Seville. Also included are nonclassical melodies like The Stars and Stripes Forever, The Entertainer, and On Wisconsin (the university's fight song). All pieces are playable on xylophone, vibraphone, or marimba, and two of the solos are adapted to be performed as duets! The optional piano accompaniment may be performed with a pianist, or by using the provided audio accompaniment tracks. Mainstream Mallets includes these 24 pieces: On Wisconsin | J.S. Hubbard and Charles D. Rosa | (Med-Easy, :35) The Happy Farmer | Robert Schumann | (Med-Easy, :51) Bourree | Johann Sebastian Bach | (Med-Easy, 1:51) Infernal Galop | Jacques Offenbach | (Med-Easy, 1:06) Sonatina | Muzio Clementi | (Medium, 1:07) Hungarian Dance No. 5 | Johannes Brahms | (Medium, 1:47) Pizzicati | Leo Delibes | (Med-Easy, 2:07) Sleeping Beauty | Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky | (Medium, 1:33) The Barber of Seville | Gioachino Rossini | (Medium, 1:22) The Royal Fireworks | George Frideric Handel | (Medium, 1:19) Anitra's Dance | Edvard Grieg | (Medium, 1:40) The Entertainer | Scott Joplin | (Medium, 2:10) Spring Season | Antonio Vivaldi | (Medium, 1:47) The Stars and Stripes Forever | John Phillip Sousa | (Medium, 2:12) Badinerie | Johann Sebastian Bach | (Med-Advanced, :57) The Chromatic Galop | Franz Liszt | (Medium, 1:19) The Sorcerer's Apprentice | Paul Dukas | (Med-Advanced, 1:43) Trepak [Russian Dance] | Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky | (Med-Advanced, 1:10) Turkish March | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | (Med-Advanced, 1:52) Csardas | Vittorio Monti | (Med-Advanced, 1:44) Back Home Again | James F. Hanley | (Medium, 1:18) Raindrop | Frederic Chopin | (Medium, 1:45) Bourree [Duet Version] | Johann Sebastian Bach | (Med-Easy, 1:53) Sleeping Beauty [Duet Version] | Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky | (Medium, 1:35) Mainstream Mallets ships as a fully-bound book with a sleek cover design by Bob Beck of Montreal's Design Society. Also included are reference recordings of each solo, PDF parts for duets, PDF parts for the piano accompaniment, and audio tracks with piano only, so that players can perform with just the piano accompaniment.
SKU: GI.G-012689
UPC: 641151126890. Latin, english or Spanish Bilingual, english, Spanish.
This amazing group of kids will take you by surprise! The Holy Cross Marimba Ensemble has delighted audiences nationwide with its unique sound and inspiring story. The group is made up of talented Mexican-American youth from Holy Cross Parish in Chicago. They play the marimba — an instrument similar to the xylophone — exclusively by rote, and have developed an impressive performance repertoire and an equally-impressive reputation. From popular Latin-American tunes to polkas and even J. S. Bach, Marimbas Fantasticas will take you on an exquisite musical journey! Proceeds from this recording will be used to benefit the Holy Cross Youth and Scholarship program.
SKU: HL.44005498
ISBN 9789043122214. UPC: 073999370744. 9.0x12.0x0.221 inches. English-German-French-Dutch.
This book contains a selection of famous classical pieces that have been carefully adapted for the marimba. Composers such as Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Vivaldi, Rimsky Korsakov and Clementi are all included. The book enables marimba players with reasonable playing experience to perform these splendid masterpieces. The pieces are ordered by difficulty and, with the exception of a few pieces at the end of the book which require four mallets, are all playable with two mallets. Musical style and good technique are essential for a good performance. In addition to making wonderful concert pieces the exciting arrangements in this book will also make a most useful teaching tool.Dit boek bevat een aantal meesterwerken uit de klassieke muziek die zorgvuldig zijn bewerkt voor marimba. Componisten als Bach, Mozart, Beethoven maar ook Vivaldi, Rimsky-Korsakov en Clementi komen aan bod. Enigszins geoefende marimbaspelerszullen prima met deze juweeltjes uit de voeten kunnen. Daarbij zijn stijl en een goede uitvoering belangrijk. De meeste werken zijn speelbaar met twee mallets, maar achter in het boek zijn ook enkele stukken bewerkt voorvier mallets. De werken zijn gerangschikt naar moeilijkheidsgraad. Een must voor de ambitieuze muzikant en een ideaal hulpmiddel voor de les- en uitvoeringspraktijk.Masters on Marimba enthalt eine Auswahl an beruhmten klassischen Stucken, die sorgfaltig fur das Marimbaphon bearbeitet wurden. Komponisten wie Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Vivaldi, Rimski-Korsakow und Clementi sind hier vertreten. Mit diesem Buch bekommen Spieler mit etwas Erfahrung die Gelegenheit, diese Meisterwerke zu spielen. Die Stucke sind nach Schwierigkeitsgrad geordnet und konnen - bis auf einige Stucke am Ende des Buches, die vier Schlagel erfordern - mit zwei Schlageln gespielt werden. Stilistisch und technisch gutes Spiel ist entscheidend fur einen guten Vortrag.Masters on Marimba une selection de celebres œuvres classiques de compositeurs tels que Marais, Senaille, Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Vivaldi, Rimski-Korsakov et Clementi. La plupart des compositions se jouent avec deux baguettes, a l'exception de quelques oeuvres qui ont ete arrangees pour quatre baguettes. Masters on Marimba e una selezione di celebri opere classiche di compositori quali Marais, Senaille, Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Vivaldi, Rimski-Korsakov e Clementi. La maggior parte delle composizioni e da suonare con due bacchette, ad eccezione di brani arrangiati per quattro bacchette. Con Masters of Marimba affronterete uno specifico repertorio che vi permettera di affinare la vostra musicalita, il vostro tocco e la precisione ritmica. Potrete poi esibirvi in pubblico dimostrando come anche la marimba possa suonare da solista al pari di altri strumenti, per intensita di suono e morbidezza d'espressione.