Crawford-Chroma 1 (SP-4/requires 2 marimbas)

Chroma 1 for marimba quartet by Stephen Crawford is scored for four players on two instruments, requiring at least one 5 octave marimba. No player uses more than two mallets. Chroma 1 makes use of harmonic and metric modulations as well as cross-rhythms - very neo-classical in an absolute way. It is composed in an ABA form, and modeled after the string quartet concept.