Written for Michael Rosen, Arctic opens with a brief, slightly dissonant rolled section followed by many changes in mood (from desolation to hope to doubt to regret). The piece works as both a recital piece and an etude to work on the 123234 sticking pattern…
Style:
Solo Works
Composer:
Steve Fitch
Publisher:
C. Alan Publications
A simple chorale opens this set of variations written to commemorate the life of Mother Teresa. The ensuing variations span several different moods and techniques, with such indications as Con Rubato, Playfully, Joyfully, and Ethereally.
Grade Level: 3…
Style:
Solo Works
Composer:
Steve Fitch
Publisher:
C. Alan Publications
Miles to Go Before I Sleep is a delightful solo marimba work for the intermediate percussionist. It travels through several different moods, but remains optimistic as it ends just as happily as it begins.
Grade Level: 3 Copyright: 2004 Number of Players: 1…
Style:
Solo Works
Composer:
Steve Fitch
Publisher:
C. Alan Publications
Naked and On Fire is an exotic sextet bringing together instruments from many corners of the world, with intricate writing for riq, triangles, gongs, tuned pipes, vibraphone and more. Using the same pitches of pipes called for in Paul Lansky’s “Threads,” this…
Style:
Percussion
Composer:
Adam Silverman
Publisher:
C. Alan Publications
Quick Blood is a rhythmically vigorous quartet centered around mallet instruments, with carefully layered combinations and hockets and a pounding bass drum feature. Silverman’s first work for percussion ensemble, this music was composed in 2001 for…
Style:
Percussion
Composer:
Adam Silverman
Publisher:
C. Alan Publications
For an eight-player percussion ensemble, this colorful work features melodicas, drumming on guitar strings, a full complement of mallet instruments, and a forest of frog guiros. Its title, coined by a two-year-old, evoked a magical environment of bright,…
Style:
Percussion
Composer:
Adam Silverman
Publisher:
C. Alan Publications
Spiderweb Lead is a percussion quartet that brings together steel drum, marimba, vibraphone and a percussion accompaniment that can be played on drums of the performer’s choice such as tablas, bongos and congas, cajon, or any hand drum. In this composition,…
Style:
Percussion
Composer:
Adam Silverman
Publisher:
C. Alan Publications
Beautiful and relaxing piece based completely on the pentatonic scale. It could also be called a “black key etude” as well, as nearly all the notes are on accidental bars. Many different sticking permutations and stroke types are used throughout the…
Style:
Solo Works
Composer:
Steve Fitch
Publisher:
C. Alan Publications
After a brief rolled introduction, the piece builds momentum into a section marked “Feroce.” Fitch provides two possible endings for the piece - the first, very short, repeated pattern that fades out; the second, a more daring, powerhouse ending not for the…
Style:
Solo Works
Composer:
Steve Fitch
Publisher:
C. Alan Publications
Winds of Saturn is a rhapsodic, programmatic work that divides into six sections - Equatorial Winds, Cassini in Orbit, Storm on the Surface, Dance of 100,000 Rings, Titan, and The Winds Return. Each section has its own character that explores many moods,…
Style:
Solo Works
Composer:
Steve Fitch
Publisher:
C. Alan Publications