Five Pieces

Five Pieces for solo marimba is a set of five miniatures dedicated to five good friends of mine who are also marimbists: Nancy Zeltsman, Yuko Yoshikawa, Eriko Daimo, Fumito Nunoya, and Jonathan Singer. Each piece is a short glimpse of how these great marimbists has appealed to me as a performer.

These pieces were my first attempt at twelve tone music. The tone row for these pieces is comprised on three sequences of four note motifs/cells, which can also be found in many of my other works. Though these pieces are 'twelve tone', I don't consider them as 'atonal', since my treatment of the twelve tone row is quite tonal.

ca. 5 mins.

Sound Clips
I.   Theme (play sound clip)
II.   Dancei (play sound clip)
III.  Aria (play sound clip)
IV. Interlude (play sound clip)
V.  Lament (play sound clip)

Music Sheets
Printed or Download .pdf version (order music sheets)

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