Stout-Diptych #3(2S)-2M

This is again a two movement composition, the first being largely fast and the second slow. Both movements are based entirely on a single series of chords and the interval of a descending third. I had the distinct pleasure of recording this work with Michael Burritt on his first CD "Perpetual".

-Gordon Stout

Number of Players: 2
Difficulty: Grade 5
Instrumentation:
Player I: Marimba
Player II: Maarimba

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.