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Windsong 2.0 - Jeff Calissi [DIGITAL]
Genre: Duet for 2 Marimbas
# of Players: 2
Level: Medium Difficult | Duration: 3:50
Publisher: C. Alan Publications | Copyright: 2020
Download mp3 | Click on images to left for score sample
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$24.00
Item #:
27050D
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Notes & Instrumentation
Adapted from the second movement of Calissi’s solo marimba work “Windsong,” Windsong 2.0 adds a second marimba part for a tour-de-force showpiece for two percussionists. The fast-paced piece features shifting complex meters, paying tribute to the composer’s beginnings in drum set playing and his love for prog rock.
Genre: Duet for 2 Marimbas | # of Players: 2
Level: Medium Difficult | Duration: 3:50
Instrumentation
Marimba 1 (5-octave)
Marimba 2 (5-octave)
Program Notes
Adapted from the second movement of Calissi’s solo marimba work “Windsong,” Windsong 2.0 adds a second marimba part for a tour-de-force showpiece for two percussionists. The fast-paced piece features shifting complex meters, paying tribute to the composer’s beginnings in drum set playing and his love for prog rock. The duo version is divided into two 5-octave marimbas giving both parts equal treatment of the melody with an enhanced accompaniment that is traded off between the performers. -
Video
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Windsong 2.0, Jeff Calissi
Eastern Connecticut State University Fine Arts Instructional Center Concert Hall, May 15, 2019. Jeff Calissi and Emily Miclon, marimba. Composition by Jeff Calissi.
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Product Reviews
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Percussive Notes New Literature Review
“Windsong 2.0” is a marimba duo based on a movement from Jeff Calassi’s solo piece, “Windsong.” This duet requires two 5-octave instruments and is a joyful contribution to marimba literature. This rhythmic and tonal piece features shifting meters in an interesting King Crimson-meets-the-marimba style. Repetitive rhythmic groves are featured liberally as are octave passages and rhythmic interlocking.
The high quality, easy-to-read score and two parts also contains program notes on the piece and composer. One suggestion I could offer is for performers to insert slight fermatas or breath marks at the end of each measure in bars 116–119. The runs there end with a thirty-second note at the close of each bar, but the online recording clearly has a pause in between each of those bars.
This duo is well crafted in the vein of Smadbeck’s old standard, “Rhythm Song,” but in a more enjoyable manner if one can imagine that. As the Smadbeck piece is a favorite of mine, “Windsong 2.0” is now at the top of my favorite list!
Sharing Calassi’s love for the musical adventures found in British progressive rock, I can only hope he’ll bring us closer to the edge on a new day with a “Windsong 3.0” for bass, drum set, mallet keyboards, and guitar!
N. Scott Robinson
Percussive Notes
Vol. 59, No. 2, April 2021 N. Scott Robinson on Jun 16th 2022
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