This melodically driven piece for six percussionists takes on a quirky, toy-like quality with bright keyboard timbres and woody sounds in the battery. It is in three distinct movements titled March for
A set of three short tunes by jazz great Chick Corea fantastically arranged for advanced mallet quartet! Appears on several state and festival lists.
Dragoon opens with bombastic statements in the low drums, leading into call and response with the wooden sounds and the tambourines. The marimbas finally overtake the wooden sounds and form their
Appearing on several state and festival lists, El Muchacho Cicno is a complex, high-energy piece for unpitched percussion and timpani. It blends Latin and orchestral percussion timbres to
This advanced quartet features three keyboards and a djembe, although each player plays several other percussion instruments, often simultaneously with their primary part. The piece is influenced by
Leave your audience thoroughly entertained with this sometimes intense, sometimes serene, sometimes comic advanced-level piece for percussion septet.
Written for mallet sextet, this arrangement is a chorale work which should be performed accordingly. Scored for bells, chimes, vibes, two four octave marimbas and one low five octave marimba, this medium
Adapted straight from the orchestrated masterpiece, this composition demands virtuosity out of the mallet players. Very fast parts at soft dynamic levels and sensitivity to phrasing are part of handling
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.
Remeniscent of the stylings of artists such as Chic Corea and Dave Grusin, this fusion-style piece by Paul Jebe will set your audience a-groovin'! The inclusion of the piano helps to make On the
From Beethoven's Piano Sonata #8 in C Minor, Op. 74, this very creative and challenging composition provides a strong musical experience for the advanced ensemble.