{"product_id":"briggs-marimba-quartet-sp-4m","title":"Briggs-Marimba Quartet (SP)-4M","description":"Matthew Briggs' Marimba Quartet was 3rd place winner in the 2000 PAS Composition Contest. This quartet is a virtuosic, 17 minute piece written in the four-movement structure of a classical string quartet. The first movement is highly neo-classical, in sonata-allegro form. The second utilizes a cyclic, self-transposing, jazzy harmonic progression in one voice as a foundation for floating melodic ideas in the other three parts. The third, \"Scherzo Rhythmicus,\" is a tour de force in 20 eighth-note time, leading to a surprising 3\/8 conclusion. The final movement is an all-out chromatic race (a la Dimitri Shostakovich) to the climatic final triad! \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNumber of players: 4\u003cbr\u003eDifficulty: Advanced\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eInstrumentation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePlayer 1: Marimba (4.3 octave)\u003cbr\u003ePlayer 2: Marimba (4 octave)\u003cbr\u003ePlayer 3: Marimba (4.6 octave)\u003cbr\u003ePlayer 4: Marimba (5 octave)\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Steve Weiss Music","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43800870289462,"sku":"623","price":59.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.steveweissmusic.com\/products\/briggs-marimba-quartet-sp-4m","provider":"Steve Weiss Music","version":"1.0","type":"link"}