By Instrumentation

Melisande's Death is the final movement of Sibelius' beautiful eight-movement tone poem Pelleas et Melisande, op. 46. This passionate and sorrowful music is scored for marimba choir (including bass marimba), and vibraphone...

Melting Point begins in a rather cool mood (especially after the four opening bars), and seems to heat up more and more, with the culminating point in bars 139/140. It ends as icily as it started.Genre: Percussion Ensemble |...

Memories of an Unforgettable Love is a composition for marimba and percussion ensemble. In essence, this piece is a set of theme and variations on the famous Latin ballad Besame Mucho. However, other original melodic...

Memories of Santa Fe features a balanced ensemble of keyboard and battery percussion with memorable melodies and toe-tapping, syncopated rhythmic exchanges.Genre: Percussion Ensemble | # of Players: 8 Level: Medium Easy |...

The Mental Manacles of the Rhythmically Divine is a play on the rhythmically difficult devices that run the course of this 5-minute work from its unsettling beginning to its maniacal ending.Genre: Percussion Ensemble | # of...

New quartet version of Daughtrey's popular percussion ensemble. Featuring a balanced ensemble of keyboard and battery percussion, Mercury Rising is, in essence, a double fugue that gives all players the opportunity to shine...

Featuring a balanced ensemble of keyboard and battery percussion, Mercury Rising is, in essence, a double fugue that gives all players the opportunity to shine.Genre: Percussion Ensemble | # of Players: 7 Level: Medium Easy...

Merge began as an exercise in percussive hocket, where each player is given a part of the whole. This is done so in both the rhythms played in the drums and melody in the tuned pipes. The ascending and deciding lines...

In true “fantasy” fashion, this setting of In the Bleak Midwinter starts with a simple statement of the melody in the metallic keyboards against flowing triplets in the marimbas. The melody then travels through...

These classic two and four-mallet solos by Harry Breuer are arranged for solo xylophone plus 3-4 marimbas accompanying. All accompaniments are easy enough for the youngest of keyboard players.Genre: Solo Xylophone with...

The delightful Minus Nine uses the unique combination of a keyboard percussion quartet and a string quartet to musically represent the beautiful & exotic world revealed during low tide on Puget Sound.Genre: Percussion...

Scored for tenor steel pan and battery percussion, this thrilling quintet grabs you from the opening yells, propels you into dizzying textures, and doesn't let go until the final fade-out.Genre: Percussion Ensemble | # of...

Free introduction with improvisational, expansive motives passed around the ensemble. The tempo gradually picks up and moves into the constantly evolving multi-meter section in which the motives from the beginning are...

Mixtures uses three main categories of sound sources: metal, membrane, and wood. After each is heard separately, the sources are mixed (some by performer choice) in a partially aleatoric section which is followed by an...

Fantastic interplay between the mallets and the battery make this an exciting and rhythmically challenging piece for percussion ensemble. An inner section of melodious mallet work makes for a pleasing contrast.Genre:...

In three contrasting movements, Mueller creates innumerable intriguing combinations of timbres. The first two movements are rather free and improvisational in nature while the third movement is quick and syncopated with...