Stout-Etudes for Marimba Bk. 1-M

Gordon Stout's Etudes for Marimba, Book 1 are short, technically challenging pieces for marimba. Each etude is based on a specific technical problem. The first etude will help you to develop interval changing technique with the inside mallets of each hand. The second etude is for two mallets, and is based on my Ideo-Kinetic Exercises for Marimba. The third etude was primarily written to develop the playing of octaves, and combines atonal harmonies with diminished scale passages. The fourth etude is a contemporary two-part invention, and was written as an assignment for a counterpoint class. The fifth etudes further explores octave technique, and has a middle section in which the player must quickly go from one style to another.
-Gordon Stout

Number of Players:
Difficulty: Grade 4
Instrumentation:
Player I: Marimba



GORDON STOUT (b.1952) is currently Professor of Percussion at the School of Music, Ithaca College, Ithaca, N.Y. A composer as well as percussionist who specializes on marimba, he has studied composition with Joseph Schwantner, Samuel Adler and Warren Benson, and percussion with James Salmon and John Beck.As a composer-recitalist he has premiered a number of his original compositions and works by other contemporary composers. Many of his compositions for marimba are published, and have already become standard repertoire for marimbists world-wide. His recordings are devoted not only to his own music, but also that of the general standard repertoire by important American composers.