Schulze-Dark Sky (SP)-2M

Dark Sky by Dustin Schulze for marimba duet. This piece is a dark, intimate journey through a foreboding landscape. Its themes are driven by subtly difficult rhythmic challenges between each player's hands, and between the two marimbas on the whole. Although the main musical energy of the piece could be described as haunting or lyrical, there is a deep, subdued rhythmic drive that slowly but incessantly ferries the listener from one landscape to the next like a slow-moving river boat on a moonlit night.

Scored for two 4.5-octave (low F) marimbas.