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Repertoire Lists

WILLIAM MOERSCH

MARIMBA SYLLABUS 

& REPERTOIRE LIST

I. Technique

  1. Bart Quartier: Image

  2. Leigh Stevens: Method of Movement

  3. Gordon Stout: Ideo-Kinetics Workbook

  4. Jack Van Geem: Four-Mallet Democracy


II. Early Marimba Repertoire 

  1. Alfred Fissinger: Suite

  2. Akira Miyoshi: Conversation

  3. Clair O. Musser: Etudes Op. 6, #8-10

  4. Paul Sifler: Marimba Suite


III. Transcriptions

  1. J.S. Bach: Six Suites for Violoncello

  2. J.S. Bach: Sonatas and Parititas for Violin

  3. J.S. Bach: Two-Part Inventions

  4. J.S. Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier


IV. Early Concerti 

  1. James Basta: Concerto for Marimba

  2. Paul Creston: Concertino for Marimba

  3. Robert Kurka: Concerto for Marimba

  4. Darius Milhaud: Concerto for Marimba and Vibraphone

  5. Jorge Sarmientos: Concerto for Marimba


V. Modern Etudes & Companion Pieces

  1. Michael Burritt: Marimbetudes #1-6, Four Movements

  2. Raymond Helble: Preludes #1-9, Grand Fantasy

  3. Paul Smadbeck: Etudes #1-3, Rhythm Song

  4. Gordon Stout: Etudes #1-14, Two Mexican Dances


VI. Abe Improvisations 

  1. Keiko Abe: Dream of the Cherry Blossoms

  2. Keiko Abe: Michi

  3. Keiko Abe: Works for Marimba, Works for Solo Marimba 


VII. Abe Commissions

  1. Yoshio Hachimura: Ahania (ms)

  2. Minoru Miki: Time

  3. Akira Miyoshi: Torse III

  4. Tokuhide Niimi: For Marimba I & II

  5. Yasuo Sueyoshi: Mirage

  6. Toshimitsu Tanaka: Two Movements


VIII. Stevens Commissions 

  1. Raymond Helble: Toccata Fantasy

  2. David Maslanka: Variations on Lost Love

  3. John Serry: Night Rhapsody

  4. John Serry: West Side Suite (ms)

  5. Christopher Stowens: Atamasco (+ tape)


IX. Moersch Commissions 

  1. Irwin Bazelon: Suite for Marimba*

  2. Richard R. Bennett: After Syrinx II*

  3. Eric Ewazen: Northern Lights

  4. Harold Farberman: The "A" Train (ms)

  5. Andrew Thomas: Merlin*


X. WM & LHS/GS/RVS/NZ NEA/MTC Commissions

  1. Jacob Druckman: Reflections on the Nature of Water*

  2. Steven Mackey: See Ya Thursday

  3. Eugene O'Brien: Rhyme and Reason (ms)

  4. Roger Reynolds: Islands from Archipelago II: Autumn Island

  5. Gunther Schuller: Marimbology

  6. Joseph Schwantner: Velocities


XI. Miscellaneous Solo Repertoire

  1. Daniel Asia: Marimba Music
  2. 
Markus Halt: Marimbasonic
  3. Matthew Harris: Potpourri

  4. Evan Hause: Fields (ms)
  5. 
Peter Klatzow: Dances of Earth and Fire

  6. Gary Kulesha: Angels (+ tape)

  7. Daniel McCarthy: Rimbasly (+ tape)
  8. 
Andy Pape: Marrrrimba

  9. Marta Ptaszynska: Graffito

  10. Suzanne Sheppard: Suite
  11. 
Gary Smart: The Seasons (ms)

  12. Martin Wesley-Smith: For Marimba and Tape* (+ tape)

  13. Takayoshi Yoshioka: Suites No. 1-3


XII. Chamber Music with Winds or Brass

  1. Eric Ewazen: Mosaics
  2. 
Peter Klatzow: Figures in a Landscape

  3. William Thomas McKinley: SingleTree (ms)

  4. Gordon Stout: Duo (Dance-Song)
  5. 
Toru Takemitsu: Toward the Sea
  6. Tsuneya Tanabe: Recollections of the Inland Sea

  7. Alec Wilder: Suite

  8. Akira Yuyama: Divertimento


XIII. Chamber Music with Strings

  1. Steve Adams: Owed T'Don (ms)

  2. Simon Bainbridge: Marimolin Inventions

  3. William Kraft: Encounters X (ms)

  4. Paul Lansky: Hop
  5. 
Thomas Oboe Lee: Marimolin
  6. Robert Nieske: Marimba Quartet (ms)

  7. Gunther Schuller: Phantasmata