Skoog-Water and Fire for Marimba-M

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Greatest piece of all mankind! Very difficult but beautiful. Also the composer is very nice.

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Greatest piece of all mankind! Very difficult but beautiful. Also the composer is very nice.

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Have recently finished learning and about to perform "Fire". The piece, when played, sounds beautiful. Full of intensity, and lots of room is left for artistic interpretation, however, the score is unreliable at times and is sometimes hard to translate what the artist thinks the author wanted the song to sound like. Overall, a fantastic piece. Few people have heard about it in my percussion department, let alone performed it, so it's much less likely to be a bore for the audience.

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Pretty challenging piece for the intermediate student. The first movement, Water, has a lot of legato rolling and also a lot of brisk independent mallet work that flows together, mimicking the movement and nature of water. The second movement, Fire, has a rubato rolled section at the beginning, with chords changing to more and more alarmed-sounding. Ripping forth from the intro is a fast exciting section that is very impressive to hear and to watch, the audience responds well to this piece. A cadenza stops time and speeds it up again, with a flourished section in the middle, and speeds up to a 7/8 variation on the original theme. Very very good piece.

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