by Samuel Z Solomon bts | Jan 7, 2016 | Keyboard Solos, Percussion Database, Repertoire Lists
This marimba solo is a very challenging one, both technically and musically. As can be inferred from the title, the piece is composed on the subject of love and its many incarnations. Containing the love song “Plaisir d’Amour” by Jean Paul Martini, the piece shows...
by Samuel Z Solomon bts | Jan 7, 2016 | Percussion Database, Repertoire Lists, Snare Drum Method Books
Compiled by former Philadelphia Orchestra Percussionst Alan Abel, the 20th Century Orchestra Studies contain many of the more recently composed orchestral parts for percussion. The book covers a wide variety of composers and pieces as well as containing orchestral...
by Samuel Z Solomon bts | Jan 7, 2016 | Keyboard Solos, Percussion Database, Repertoire Lists
This piece is one of the rare marimba solos requiring the performer to hold three mallets in each hand. Though otherwise simple, this novel technique adds a new degree of difficulty to the piece. Some of the challenges the player will encounter are playing a melodic...
by Samuel Z Solomon bts | Jan 7, 2016 | Keyboard Solos, Percussion Database, Repertoire Lists
This marimba solo is easily Keiko Abe’s most humorous work. Marked constantly moving thirds, the music seems to always be dancing or hopping, just as the frogs in its title. Though by no means easy or simple, it is one of Abe’s most accessible pieces. “Frogs” is...
by Samuel Z Solomon bts | Jan 7, 2016 | Keyboard Solos, Percussion Database, Repertoire Lists
This piece, for solo marimba, is one of Keiko Abe’s most famous compositions. Central to the piece is the traditional Japanese song “Sakura.” This song is played and varied in endless ways throughout. Also integral to the piece is a sixteenth note...