Penn-Sonoran Suite (SP)-4M/P

Sonoran Suite was composed while William Penn was on the music faculty at The University of Arizona in Tucson in the early 1990s. The piece represents his reflections of the Sonoran Desert of the Southwest.

Number of players: 4
Difficulty: Advanced

Instrumentation

Player 1: Marimba 1 (4 octave), bongos, tambourine
Player 2: Marimba 2 (4 octave), boobam, egg shaker
Player 3: Marimba 3 (4 octave), 3 cowbells, castanets, suspended cymbal, egg shaker, rain stick
Player 4: Marimba 4 (4.3 octave), boobam, police whistle, cowbell, woodblock