Stout-Andante and Allegro-M/PN

For marimba and piano, and written as a freshman at the Eastman School of Music, while studying composition with Joseph Schwantner. Though not a frequently played composition, it does provide both chordal and linear passages for the young four mallet marimbist, and is in an atonal style harmonically. The piano part is not terribly difficult. This work would be an excellent choice for the advanced high school marimbist, or the younger college percussion major looking to challenge their intermediate four mallet technique.


Number of Players:1
Difficulty: Grade 4
Instrumentation:
Player I: Marimba

GORDON STOUT (b.1952) is currently Professor of Percussion at the School of Music, Ithaca College, Ithaca, N.Y. A composer as well as percussionist who specializes on marimba, he has studied composition with Joseph Schwantner, Samuel Adler and Warren Benson, and percussion with James Salmon and John Beck.As a composer-recitalist he has premiered a number of his original compositions and works by other contemporary composers. Many of his compositions for marimba are published, and have already become standard repertoire for marimbists world-wide. His recordings are devoted not only to his own music, but also that of the general standard repertoire by important American composers.