Handwritten fonts???In the case of Richard Rodney Bennett, those are manuscript copies, in the composer's own hand, and, as you can see from the errat...
Ha,Ha.With all the notes in that piece, they still have a pretty good average. Go figure.WM
MEASURE ERRATA CORRECTIONm. 4, upper stave 2nd beat, 1st 8th Ab, not Am. 7, upper stave 3rd beat, 2nd note G natural, ...
P.S. The range shrank because of the Great Depression and the end of Vaudeville. There just wasn't a market for those instruments. Probably also the i...
The Creston Concertino was written in 1939/40, and Vida Chenowith did not give her debut recital until 1956.5-octave literature began when Yamaha desi...
The version of Hideaki Suzuki: Mokurei that I have was written "1983.5.4", contains seven manuscript pages, and was published by the Japan Federation ...
The initial interest in the marimba in the U.S. was largely due to appearances by various incarnations of the Hurtado Marimba Band (1901, 1908, 1915),...
Yes, Janis Potter, www.janmarimba.comWM
Rebecca Kite, www.RebeccaKite.comWM
I have to agree with Nat's points regarding the perception of the marimba in Japan. Many of the women studying marimba have no intention of being prof...
J.C. Deagan made the first extended range marimbas back in the early 1900's, e.g. #4732 Marimba-Xylo (6-octaves, E2-E8, 1910) and Nabimba (5-octave, C...
RR Bennett's solo part for the Marimba Concerto is perfectly well laid out. Unfortunately, Novello got the pagination reversed in the copies they prin...
For heavier mallets, try the Malletech Concerto series, my line with Innovative Percussion, or the Yamaha Virtuoso or Keiko Abe Signature series.Steve...
I commissioned Eric Ewazen's Northern Lights; it is about 14-15 minutes in duration, requires a 4.5 marimba, and is based mainly on triadic harmony.WM
P.S. The usual version of the section you mention is to alternate 16th's between the sustained voice and the moving voice.WM