Four-Mallet Marimba Playing

This book contains a lot of music, from musical etudes designed for beginning and intermediate players, to recital material appropriate for intermediate and advanced marimbists. It includes: examples taken from contemporary solo and chamber works, with commentary and performance tips * 50 studies to develop four-mallet technique in a musical way * 18 classic and contemporary solos for recitals, auditions or juries, written by Beethoven * Handel * Chopin * Debussy * Leonard Bernstein * Duke Ellington * and others; and helpful guidelines for mallet selection, grip, strokes, tone production, rolls, stickings, phrasing and other important topics.