Repertoire Lists
WILLIAM MOERSCH
MARIMBA SYLLABUS
& REPERTOIRE LIST
I. Technique
- Bart Quartier: Image
- Leigh Stevens: Method of Movement
- Gordon Stout: Ideo-Kinetics Workbook
- Jack Van Geem: Four-Mallet Democracy
II. Early Marimba Repertoire
- Alfred Fissinger: Suite
- Akira Miyoshi: Conversation
- Clair O. Musser: Etudes Op. 6, #8-10
- Paul Sifler: Marimba Suite
III. Transcriptions
- J.S. Bach: Six Suites for Violoncello
- J.S. Bach: Sonatas and Parititas for Violin
- J.S. Bach: Two-Part Inventions
- J.S. Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier
IV. Early Concerti
- James Basta: Concerto for Marimba
- Paul Creston: Concertino for Marimba
- Robert Kurka: Concerto for Marimba
- Darius Milhaud: Concerto for Marimba and Vibraphone
- Jorge Sarmientos: Concerto for Marimba
V. Modern Etudes & Companion Pieces
- Michael Burritt: Marimbetudes #1-6, Four Movements
- Raymond Helble: Preludes #1-9, Grand Fantasy
- Paul Smadbeck: Etudes #1-3, Rhythm Song
- Gordon Stout: Etudes #1-14, Two Mexican Dances
VI. Abe Improvisations
- Keiko Abe: Dream of the Cherry Blossoms
- Keiko Abe: Michi
- Keiko Abe: Works for Marimba, Works for Solo Marimba
VII. Abe Commissions
- Yoshio Hachimura: Ahania (ms)
- Minoru Miki: Time
- Akira Miyoshi: Torse III
- Tokuhide Niimi: For Marimba I & II
- Yasuo Sueyoshi: Mirage
- Toshimitsu Tanaka: Two Movements
VIII. Stevens Commissions
- Raymond Helble: Toccata Fantasy
- David Maslanka: Variations on Lost Love
- John Serry: Night Rhapsody
- John Serry: West Side Suite (ms)
- Christopher Stowens: Atamasco (+ tape)
IX. Moersch Commissions
- Irwin Bazelon: Suite for Marimba*
- Richard R. Bennett: After Syrinx II*
- Eric Ewazen: Northern Lights
- Harold Farberman: The "A" Train (ms)
- Andrew Thomas: Merlin*
X. WM & LHS/GS/RVS/NZ NEA/MTC Commissions
- Jacob Druckman: Reflections on the Nature of Water*
- Steven Mackey: See Ya Thursday
- Eugene O'Brien: Rhyme and Reason (ms)
- Roger Reynolds: Islands from Archipelago II: Autumn Island
- Gunther Schuller: Marimbology
- Joseph Schwantner: Velocities
XI. Miscellaneous Solo Repertoire
- Daniel Asia: Marimba Music
- Markus Halt: Marimbasonic
- Matthew Harris: Potpourri
- Evan Hause: Fields (ms)
- Peter Klatzow: Dances of Earth and Fire
- Gary Kulesha: Angels (+ tape)
- Daniel McCarthy: Rimbasly (+ tape)
- Andy Pape: Marrrrimba
- Marta Ptaszynska: Graffito
- Suzanne Sheppard: Suite
- Gary Smart: The Seasons (ms)
- Martin Wesley-Smith: For Marimba and Tape* (+ tape)
- Takayoshi Yoshioka: Suites No. 1-3
XII. Chamber Music with Winds or Brass
- Eric Ewazen: Mosaics
- Peter Klatzow: Figures in a Landscape
- William Thomas McKinley: SingleTree (ms)
- Gordon Stout: Duo (Dance-Song)
- Toru Takemitsu: Toward the Sea
- Tsuneya Tanabe: Recollections of the Inland Sea
- Alec Wilder: Suite
- Akira Yuyama: Divertimento
XIII. Chamber Music with Strings
- Steve Adams: Owed T'Don (ms)
- Simon Bainbridge: Marimolin Inventions
- William Kraft: Encounters X (ms)
- Paul Lansky: Hop
- Thomas Oboe Lee: Marimolin
- Robert Nieske: Marimba Quartet (ms)
- Gunther Schuller: Phantasmata