Pinwheel Galaxy (Solo 2-Mallet Marimba)

22 million light years away from the Earth the spiral-shaped Pinwheel Galaxy has a diameter of 190,000 light years and contains approximately one trillion stars. The Pinwheel Galaxy is about twice as large as our Milky Way. This showy 2-mallet marimba solo depicts this stunning sight with a great abundance of notes amd quasi spiral-shaped melodies.

Genre: Marimba (2-mallet) | # of Players: 1
Level: Intermediate | Duration: 5:15

Instrumentation
Marimba (4.3-octave)
2 mallets

Program Notes
22 million light years away from the Earth the spiral-shaped Pinwheel Galaxy has a diameter of 190,000 light years and contains approximately one trillion stars. The Pinwheel Galaxy is about twice as large as our Milky Way.

I musically depicted this stunning appearance by using a great abundance of notes—still less than 1 trillion—topped by quasi spiral-shaped melodies. Furthermore, another short fantastic melody reminds us of the gigantic distances out there in the almost never-ending space of the universe.

–L.K.