Stout-Etudes for Marimba Bk. 2-M

Exclusively for four mallet marimba. These pieces are more lengthy and difficult than those of Book 1. In composing these etudes, I was more concerned with developing formal structures that a specific technique for each etude. The sixth etude is in a choral style. The seventh etude explores the use of glissandi. The eighth etudes is dedicated to Keiko Abe, and is in a variations form, and is probably one of the most difficult pieces I have composed. The ninth etude is one of my most favorite pieces to perform, and is influenced by jazz rhythms and figures. The tenth etude is a twelve-tone composition.
-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.