When you want to find marimba sheet music, you may need to consider between many choices. Finding the best marimba sheet music is not an easy task. In this post, we create a very short list about top 14 the best marimba sheet music for you. You can check detail product features, product specifications and also our voting for each product. Let’s start with following top 14 marimba sheet music:
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1. Percussion Keyboard Technic: Marimba, Xylophone, Vibraphone, Bells
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Percussion Keyboard Technic BookThis method provides material for beginning students to progress according to their abilities and continues to motivate and sustain interest with the highest quality music
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This method provides material for beginning students to progress according to their abilities and continues to motivate and sustain interest with the highest quality music.2. Harry Breuer's Ragtime Solos: Five Solos for Xylophone, Marimba or Vibes
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Harry Breuer's Ragtime Solos Book/CDFive original solos with piano accompaniment by a multi-faceted composer/performer and historically significant mallet soloist
This set includes program notes and composer biography
These five pieces, Mallets Ala Zurke, Rag Doll Rag, Temptation Revamp, Waltz in Ragtime and Joplin on Wood, are fun to play, fun to listen to and will surely add to any concert or recital program as well as repertoire for solo performances of any nature
Includes a CD recording of Harry Breuer playing each piece with piano accompaniment
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(Meredith Music Percussion). Five original solos with piano accompaniment by a multi-faceted composer/performer and historically significant mallet soloist. This set includes program notes and a composer biography. These five pieces Mallets Ala Zurke * Rag Doll Rag * Temptation Revamp * Waltz in Ragtime * and Joplin on Wood are fun to play, fun to listen to, and will surely add to any concert or recital program, as well as repertoire for solo performances of any nature. Includes a CD recording of Harry Breuer playing each piece with piano accompaniment.3. Pure Imagination
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As Gene Wilder sings in the film, "Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory," "Come with me, and you'll be, in a world of pure imagination." Alex Stopa does exactly that in his clever, jazzy marimba arrangement of this timeless classic. This arrangement requires a high level of sensitivity and technical skill as it blends the whimsy of the original melody with a hint of nostalgia, surprising the listener with unexpected harmonic turns.4. Anthology of Lute & Guitar Music for Marimba: Book & CD
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Category: Percussion - Mallet Instrument Collection Format: Book Instrument: Marimba Level: Beginner to AdvancedRebecca Kite's Anthology of Lute & Guitar Music for Marimba is a fantastic collection of music from the Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, and Romantic Eras
Rapidly becoming a "go-to" resource for beginning four-mallet marimba study, this collection is being used by teachers, students, and professional marimbists all over the world
The 31 works range from beginning to advanced levels and include the popular pieces "Leyenda" and "Recuerdos
" These pieces are appropriate for sight reading, recitals, juries, technical practice, and style studies
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Rebecca Kite's Anthology of Lute & Guitar Music for Marimba is a fantastic collection of music from the Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, and Romantic Eras. Rapidly becoming a "go-to" resource for beginning four-mallet marimba study, this collection is being used by teachers, students, and professional marimbists all over the world.The 31 works range from beginning to advanced levels and include the popular pieces "Leyenda" and "Recuerdos."
These pieces are appropriate for sight reading, recitals, juries, technical practice, and style studies. Difficulty level from beginning to advanced---levels 3--5. For 4 mallets, 4.3 octave marimba (low A).
5. Modern School for Xylophone, Marimba, Vibraphone (Morris Goldenberg Classics)
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Contributors: Morris Goldenberg / musical interpretations and editing by Anthony J. CironeSeries: Morris Goldenberg Classics
Instrument: Mallet Instrument
Page count: 132
ISBN: 075790890X
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The "Goldenberg book" has been used by generations of orchestral mallet players to develop their skills. As well as studies and etudes, this book includes excerpts of major orchestral repertoire for keyboard percussion instruments. This edition, edited by Tony Cirone, includes phrasings that were inherent in the music but not specifically written out. Stickings are also addressed: the original stickings are in uppercase letters, and the added stickings are in lowercase. This book is the primary source for keyboard percussion players to learn technique and orchestral repertoire.6. The Beatles for Marimba
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The Beatles For MarimbaBring mallets to 16 masterpieces by the Fab Four, including: And I Love Her Blackbird Eleanor Rigby Hey Jude Let It Be Maxwell's Silver Hammer Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown) When I'm Sixty-Four Yesterday and more
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(Percussion). Bring mallets to 16 masterpieces by the Fab Four, including: And I Love Her * Blackbird * Eleanor Rigby * Hey Jude * Let It Be * Maxwell's Silver Hammer * Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown) * When I'm Sixty-Four * Yesterday * and more.7. Masterpieces for Marimba: A Collection from the Finest Musical Literature to Meet the Needs of the Percussion Keyboard
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Works of Bach, Handel, Telemann, Mozart, and CorelliDescription
A collection of pieces from the Baroque music period arranged for marimba solo.8. Four-Mallet Independence for Marimba: Progressive Studies for Two Mallets in Each Hand
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Softcover48 pages
Size: 12" x 9"
Author: Samuel A. Floyd, Jr.
ISBN: 1423413466
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(Percussion). In this book, Johnny Lee Lane and Samuel A. Floyd, Jr. take you through a concentrated study of progressively arranged exercises. Through careful study and practice of the book's valuable musical examples, you will build a solid foundation in the independent manipulation of two mallets in each hand.9. Command Performances for Percussion: Competition Solos for Snare Drum, Marimba and Timpani (Percussion Solo Series)
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This collection is the perfect sourcebook for material that meets or exceeds recital and performance requirements. Written by Tony Cirone, the leading educational percussion writer and editor in the field today. These are exciting and challenging contemporary percussion solos for today's student.10. Works : for solo marimba
11. LOOSE CANNONS, A Collection for Solo Marimba
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Challenging, yet accessible audience friendly collection of six titles for solo marimba. Two titles are scored for two mallets while the other four require intermediate/advanced four-mallet technique. This collection would work well as a "concert suite" or titles could be played separately for recitals, contests, etc. Requires 4 1/3-octave marimba. adv. high school/college.12. Clair De Lune, For Solo Marimba (4 Octaves)
13. 18090 - Suite Pepper - 9 Spicy Sequential Solos for Developing 4 Mallet Marimba Chops
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Suite Pepper is a collection of solos for the four-mallet marimbist. Each piece addresses a particular stroke type in isolation. The solos can be learned in a sequential manner from the first to the last as intended, or in any order that the marimba player may desire. A marimbist may choose to only work on selected movements to enhance specific techniques. Suite Pepper is an excellent collection for anyone learning four-mallet technique.Genre: Marimba (4-mallet) | # of Players: 1
Level: Medium Easy to Medium | Duration: 20:00
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Marimba (4.3-octave)
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Suite Pepper is a collection of solos for the four-mallet marimbist. Each piece addresses a particular stroke type in isolation. The solos can be learned in a sequential manner from the first to the last as intended, or in any order that the marimba player may desire. A marimbist may choose to only work on selected movements to enhance specific techniques. Suite Pepper is an excellent collection for anyone learning four-mallet technique.
The solos, played in order, address the following stroke types respectively:
1. Double Vertical Stroke (parallel placement, mostly consistent interval)
2. Double Vertical Stroke (parallel placement, changing intervals)
3. Double Vertical Stroke (variable placement)
4. Double Vertical Stroke (chorale style)
5. Single Independent Stroke
6. Single Alternating Stroke
7. Double Lateral Stroke
8. Triple Lateral Stroke
9. One-Handed Roll
Suite Pepper is dedicated to Lisa Rogers and my dear friend, Mike Perez. Over a decade ago, Perez suggested I write a series of marimba solos for students that would be accessible to the ear and enjoyable to play. Inspired by that charge and by my study of marimba pedagogy with Lisa Rogers, I decided to compose this collection. It is meant to serve as a musical companion to an article that I wrote on four-mallet marimba pedagogy for School Band and Orchestra magazine (November 2007). Although a number of good student works for four-mallet marimba have been written in recent years, these pieces are unique in that they address only one motion, or stroke type at a time. As a percussion educator, I felt the need for a collection of this nature to enhance my students technical advancement in an enjoyable and musical way. The range required for the performance of these pieces is only that of a 4-octave marimba, which allows most every student percussionist with access to a marimba the opportunity to play them.
About the Peppers...
While composing the pieces for this book, I read an article in the Smithsonian about various peppers from around the world. Since a couple of the solos I had already written for this collection were south of the border in style, I thought it might be fun to name each piece after a particular type of pepper. Thus, the idea for Suite Pepper was planted. Many peppers grow well in Latin America, so some of these pieces are infused with a Latin American flavor. Scotch Bonnet is a somber chorale that invokes a European tradition, although the actual pepper grows in the Caribbean. The naga jolokia pepper is from India, thus, Solo 5 utilizes a drone and odd time signatures. The final solo is based on a ground bass motif so I couldn t resist Ground Pepper.
14. Hal Leonard Christmas Carols for Band Or Brass Choir Drums, Bells, Marimba
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20 pagesSize: 5-1/4" x 6-3/4"
Arranger: G.E. Holmes
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95 for conductor) - or if you need replacement copies for the well-worn set in your library