This document provides band directors, orchestra directors, percussion. Rain dance marimba solo pdf rain dance by alice gomez has become a popular choice for beginning marimba players. Print and download in pdf or midi yellow after the rain. Alice gomez rain dance entertainment general scribd.
Yellow after the rain is basically the beginning marimba solo. The universal marimba competition, located in the heart of europe and acclaimed as one of the most prestigious in the world, gathers the marimba around the globe and foster cross cultural understanding. Yellow after the rain wip sheet music for percussion. Creative commons license six quite difficult studies to improve fourmallet. Get a special offer and listen to over 60 million songs, anywhere with amazon music unlimited. Rain dance by alice gomez and marilyn rife marimba solo. Set in a modified rondo form, two separate ostinatos help unify the music while themes from the opening chorale and allegro sections are developed. Feeling better marimba solo two mallets ivan trevino. A collection from the finest musical literature to meet the needs of the. Im jake betts, a sophomore at boswell high school in fort worth, texas. Dust off your favorite clown suit and have fun with this ragtimey, twobeat xylophone solo with optional piano accompaniment. Zivkovic ultimatum 1 for solo marimba 4 edition musica europea zivkovic concerto per marimba e orchestra no. Rosewood for marimba solo marimba intermediate 1 pdf 1 mp3 2. A dark, yet nice, simple piece for a single player using four.
This is rain dance, a marimba solo by alice gomez and marilyn rife. Shop for percussion instruments, percussion accessories, and percussion sheet music, cds, and videos at steve weiss music. Relentless and lyrical, this solo version of shee wus blue identity is a virtuosic showpiece for advanced. Designed for the solo marimba performer, the virtuoso series features a rubber core wrapped with a wool blend yarn for an especially warm and fullbodied. Marimba solo mallet instrument steve weiss music page 6. Learn how to line dance, belly dance, ice dance and more modern school for xylophone, marimba, vibraphone morris goldenberg classics masterpieces for marimba. Rain dance, by alice gomez marimba literature library duration. Beginnig 4 mallet marimba players will enjoy the syncopated rhythms and independent left hand. Marimba structure the figures below show the basic structures of a marimba. Not my best performance, but something i am proud of nonetheless. I hope people will find these videos of marimba solos as a good starting point when picking new music.
Its groovy, repetetive minor tonality makes it popular and easily accessible to younger students. Ensemble kithara ii surrogate kithara cloudchamber bowls harmonic canon ii high bass marimba diamond marimba low bass marimba 2 players a dance for the twin rhythms of gemini 2nd version, 1968. A collection of marimba solos by cliff hulling is an assortment of 6 four mallet solos scored for 4. Tired of western music arrangements, miki wrote a piece that was distinctly different than anything else out there at the time. Percussion repertoire university of tennessee at martin. Can be performed as an unaccompanied solo or with any number of doublings in unison or at the octaves. Figure s 1g and 1h focus on the base of the marimba, while figures 1i and 1j focus on the top area, where the bars are located. Rose marimba solo sheet music for percussion download.
Cost is greatly reduced when you build your own marimba. Alice gomez has gained international recognition for her latino and native american influenced compositions. Rain dance for solo marimba has a continuous rhythmic groove as the main. Rose marimba solo sheet music for percussion download free in pdf or midi now for sale. Feeling better 2015 is a two mallet solo scored for 4. Education rain dance by alice gomez and marilyn rife.
Although all of the pieces in this collection were originally composed for a 5 octave instrument. A mediumlevel marimba solo written and dedicated to the composers nephew, andrew. To solve this problem, we spent some serious time figuring out how large of a marimba you need for every marimba solo in our library. A bit overplayed to the point of almost being cliche perhaps, but a good piece nonetheless. Mexican murals delancey, charles rosewood blues gomez, alice marimba flamenca gottry, josh irrelevant houliff, murray two pieces pimental, l. Dance and more modern school for xylophone, marimba, vibraphone morris goldenberg classics masterpieces for marimba.
Sea refractions, by mitchell peters marimba literature. Paul smadbecks rhythm song is one of the most popular solo marimba works of all time and has been reengraved in a clearer, easier to read and understand, composerapproved edition. Marimba rain dance by ralf illenberger on amazon music. Nancy zeltsmans recommended solo marimba literature as. She grew up in san antonio, texas, a city rich in cultural diversity, playing the drums. Ive made a page that lists several marimba pieces ranging in difficulty.
Simple melodic statements make this work a catchy favorite. Northern lights, by eric ewazen performed by jisu jung more with jisu here. Elements of african, latin, gamelan and jazz fusion. Rain dance by alice gomez has become a popular choice for beginning marimba players. Fordpolarism product information polaris by mark ford is a one movement solo based on a rhythmic theme in 78 meter. Performance repertoire selected mallet repertoire level i.
Rain dance by alice gomez and marilyn rife, performed by nathan hewitt. Both figures show the structure of a basic outdoor marimba. Rain dance 4 4 4 3 gomez, alice gitano for marimba 4 gotto, yo a rainy perspective v 5 modern method for timpani t mb sunbell glentworth, mark v 5 etude in d minor marimba flamenca xy modern school for snare drum csd mb m goldenberg, morris modern school for marimba, xylophone, and vibraphone m mb goodman, saul ballade for the dancer t 4. Marimba 3 sheet music download free in pdf or midi. By alice gomez and marilyn rife played on an adams rosewood marimba.
Gomez rain dance 4 southern green xylophone solos book 2 sam fox gwinn a true lovers farewell 4 southern. Marimba sheet music book by alice gomez and marilyn rife. Percussion instrument and music specialists since 1961. Funny mallets, book 1 intermediate bergamo, john five short pieces for marimba cotto, orlando marimba for an angel. This 4 minute work is composed around a fragmentation of the main theme of. Rain dance, by alice gomez marimba literature library youtube. Time for marimba by minoru miki marimba solo norsk. Bach for marimba by sheet music for marimba solo buy. Top 10 four mallet marimba solos for first performance. Time for marimba by minoru miki was first performed on keiko abes first marimba recital, and has been performed on countless recitals since then.
Each marimba piece is listed alphabetically by composer and includes a video to be used as a reference. Audio recorded and processed by tyler thompson, sophomore at texas. Works for marimba is a collection of solo marimba works by keiko abe. It has been dedicated with success to promote the popularization and development of the marimba art and culture, sparing no efforts in supporting leading artists.