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Deep Beneath the Ice (Solo 4-Mallet Marimba)
Genre: Marimba (4-mallet)
# of Players: 1
Level: Medium Difficult | Duration: 5:30
Publisher: C. Alan Publications | Copyright: 2020
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Item #:
27520
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Notes & Instrumentation
Deep Beneath the Ice is a tuneful piece for solo marimba that offers the performer many opportunities for musical expression. A calm, song-like beginning builds to a climax of cascading arpeggios, shifting the harmony and texture to a place in which melodies emerge from freely flowing lines.
Genre: Marimba (4-mallet) | # of Players: 1
Level: Medium Difficult | Duration: 5:30
Instrumentation
Marimba (5-octave)
Program Notes
Deep Beneath the Ice is a simple and tuneful piece, composed in January 2015 when I was a student at Interlochen Arts Academy. In the warmer months of the year, I would sit by Duck Lake on campus and enjoy being so close to nature. But in winter, the lake would freeze over, sealing all life beneath a layer of ice. Similarly, the far-below freezing temperatures would keep all of the students inside. While trapped inside a practice room, I composed this piece as a reminder that even in isolation, life exists as active as ever. - S.K. -
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"Deep Beneath the Ice" for marimba
From the program notes: “Deep Beneath the Ice” was written in January 2015 at Interlochen Arts Academy. In the warmer months of the year, I would sit by Green Lake on campus and enjoy being so close to nature. In winter, the lake would freeze over, sealing all life beneath a layer of ice. Similarly, the far-below freezing temperatures would keep all of the students inside. While trapped inside a practice room, I composed this piece as a reminder that even in isolation, life exists as active as ever. Distributed by Strikeclef Publishing, LLC https://www.strikeclef.com/music https://www.facebook.com/Stephen-Karu... https://soundcloud.com/stephenkarukas stephen.karukas@gmail.com
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Product Reviews
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Percussive Notes New Literature Review
What a fantastic solo! I have to start this way because those are the words that come to mind as I look and listen through each section of this 5½-minute piece. Stephen Karukas has captured many different elements of marimba playing and melded them together into a tuneful, lullaby-esque package that is soothing to listen to and fun to perform.
From a character perspective, Karukas has written syncopated hand-to-hand motions (the beginning is built upon a 2:3 combination) that resemble works by Stout and Koshinski, yet, in this setting, they seem entirely fresh. From a chordal/ harmonic viewpoint, many of Karukas’ choices harken to those used by Sammut, but sound unique and modern — almost like a second-generation of a French-Impressionistic treatment of extended chords on a marimba.
Technically, this solo requires marimba players who are comfortable playing melodic material in right-hand octaves, and equally comfortable shaping phrases across music performed with multi-lateral strokes (3-4-3-2-1-2) and other permutations. If players perform the music strictly, with no additional shaping and flexing of the time, results will be lackluster. Full potential of this piece will be achieved in the hands of performers who are sensitive to phrases, expressive in their interpretation, and willing to convey emotion from within the rhythmic structure of the phrases.
Joshua D. Smith
PERCUSSIVE NOTES
VOL. 59, NO. 3, JUNE 2021 Joshua D. Smith on Jun 29th 2022
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