Stout-Etudes for Marimba Bk. 3-M

Exclusively for two mallet marimba, Gordon Stout's Etudes for Marimba, Book 3 is full of moderately difficult to difficult pieces, including the popular Basically Broke Blues.

"These etudes came as a result of my rediscovering two mallet playing. I had been so consumed with writing for four mallet marimba that I almost forgot about playing with two mallets. So these pieces provided me with a way to return to my roots as a player."
-Gordon Stout

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.