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A Heaven Full of Stars is a lyrical marimba solo meant to evoke feelings of wonder and peacefulness. The work was inspired by the composer’s personal relationships and his feelings of awe when observing the night sky...

Big Sur: Suite for Marimba and String Orchestra is generally about the natural beauty of Big Sur, California, but also pays homage to three of the main performers who made the area famous for folk music with their...

Claude Debussy’s timeless masterpiece Clair de Lune finds new life on the marimba in this beautiful yet challenging arrangement.Genre: Solo 4-Mallet Marimba | # of Players: 1 Series: N/A Level: Advanced | Duration:...

Creatures of the Wood is a collection of intermediate four-mallet etudes that focus on holding octaves across various techniques and applications on the marimba. There are six etudes in total, that encapsulate the spirit and...

Experience the enchanting melodies of Early Morning Nostalgia, a mesmerizing steel drum solo that captures the essence of simpler times. Transport yourself to a park bench on a Saturday morning, where the haunting notes...

Euphoria Variations is a work for marimba inspired by the rhythmic language of Argentine composer Alejandro Viñao, who composed two “variation” sets for marimba largely structured around rhythmic iteration...

Kevin Robles’s work House of Glass is scored for 5-octave marimba and is dedicated to the minimalist works of Philip Glass. The beautiful chords combined with the enticing 5:3 polyrhythm is sure to bring a sense of...

Landscape Portrait is about the limitations that we impose on nature by trying to understand it through a human lens. In the music, clamps on individual vibraphone bars mute notes, creating order out of what would otherwise...

The Light You Bring is an intermediate 4-mallet solo for low-A marimba based around a short poem of the same title by Kai Skye: when you step in to the thing you are, the world does not burn, but glows more brightly with the...

Inspired by autumn in Manhattan, Mallet 'N Sound is a colorful work for solo marimba in three descriptive movements: Autumn Wind, Come Unto Me, and To Somewhere.Genre: Marimba (4-mallet) | # of Players: 1 Series: N/A Level:...

Nocturne at Sea reflects on the nature of water in the more specific context of a mirror reflecting natural moonlight on the ocean. The piece asks its performer to play both structured and improvised musical sections in an...

Of Wind and Water is based on a verse from the Bhagavad Gita, “which suggests that the movement of our senses among the sense objects is similar to the wind carrying a ship across the waters.” The piece is very...

The Principle of Polarity is one of the seven Hermetic (occult or secret) principles. It embodies the idea that everything is dual, everything has two poles, and everything has its opposite. All manifested things have two...

The Principle of Polarity is one of the seven Hermetic (occult or secret) principles. It embodies the idea that everything is dual, everything has two poles, and everything has its opposite. All manifested things have two...

Recitation is a technically simple and musically complex chorale for marimba. This solo provides a lyrical style for recital programs while using some extended tonalities to communicate more elaborate emotional soundscape...

The Taíno were an Arawak people, indigenous to the Caribbean. Music played a significant role in their culture from recounting history, to celebrations, to spiritual guidance. It has been said that music played such a...