Stout-Incoming (M,DS)

Incoming was premiered at PASIC-2002 in Columbus, Ohio during a clinic/performance by Gordon Stout. His popular solo composition Wood That Sings was also premiered at that session. Incoming is a virtuostic composition for the two players, using the drumkit as a multiple percussion instrument. The drummer has the opportunity to improvise in different sections of the work, and requires the ability to solo in different and changing meters. It requires a five octave marimba and is about 8 minutes in length.


Number of Players: 2
Difficulty: Grade 4
Instrumentation:
Player I: Marimba
Player I: Drumset


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.