{"product_id":"stout-etudes-for-marimba-bk-2-m","title":"Stout-Etudes for Marimba Bk. 2-M","description":"Exclusively for four mallet marimba. These pieces are more lengthy and difficult than those of Book 1. In composing these etudes, I was more concerned with developing formal structures that a specific technique for each etude. The sixth etude is in a choral style. The seventh etude explores the use of glissandi. The eighth etudes is dedicated to Keiko Abe, and is in a variations form, and is probably one of the most difficult pieces I have composed. The ninth etude is one of my most favorite pieces to perform, and is influenced by jazz rhythms and figures. The tenth etude is a twelve-tone composition.\u003cbr\u003e-Gordon Stout\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNumber of Players: \u003cbr\u003eDifficulty: Grade 4\u003cbr\u003eInstrumentation: \u003cbr\u003e Player I: Marimba\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGORDON 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.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Steve Weiss Music","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43800536547382,"sku":"3-2815","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0563\/3055\/1350\/files\/stout-etudes-for-marimba-bk-2-m.jpg?v=1773373973","url":"https:\/\/www.steveweissmusic.com\/products\/stout-etudes-for-marimba-bk-2-m","provider":"Steve Weiss Music","version":"1.0","type":"link"}