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Overview
- Highlights Warm, Mellow Marimba Character
- Standard Minimalist Repertoire
- No Score Included
- Six 4.3-Octave Marimbas Needed
- Difficulty: Advanced
- Duration: 12:00 - 24:00
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Item Details
Six Marimbas by Steve Reich is a variation on his minimalist piece Six Pianos that highlights the warm, mellow, resonating character of the marimba. The audience will experience a combination of different rhythms and pitches that form a wall of sound, changing in tiny ways until it becomes something totally different.
Each individual part is included with this music, but the score is sold separately.
Performers have a challenge ahead of them: memorizing the patterns and knowing where you are in the music requires a very high level of concentration and musical maturity, and at all times it needs to sound like one person playing everything. Any dirtiness in the rhythm breaks the effect.
Six Marimbas, as written, takes 24 minutes to complete. If you can't or don't want to set aside that much of your program for one piece, you can whittle down the number of variations for each pattern to your liking.
Instrumentation: Six 4.3-Octave Marimbas
Difficulty: Advanced
Duration: 24:00 (can be shortened by adjusting amount of repetition)
From the composer: The piece begins with three marimbas playing the same eight beat rhythmic pattern, but with different notes for each marimba. One of the other marimbas begins to gradually build up the exact pattern of one of the marimbas already playing by putting the notes of the fifth beat on the seventh beat, then putting the notes of the first beat on the third beat, and so on, reconstructing the same pattern with the same notes, but two beats out of phase. When this canonic relationship has been fully constructed, the two other marimbas double some of the many melodic patterns resulting from this four marimba relationship. By gradually increasing their volume they bring these resulting patterns up to the surface of the music; then, by lowering the volume they slowly return them to the overall contrapuntal web, in which the listener can hear them continuing along with many others in the ongoing four marimba relationship.
This process of rhythmic construction followed by doubling the resulting patterns is then continued in the three sections of the piece that are marked off by changes of mode and gradually higher position on the marimba, the first in D-flat major, the second in E-flat dorian, and the third in B-flat natural minor. - Steve Reich
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Specifications
Name Six Marimbas by Steve Reich (Parts Only) Brand Boosey & Hawkes Model # 48001558 UPC Code Sold By each Number of Orchestra Bells Number of Crotales Number of Vibes Number of Chimes Number of Pans Number of Xylophones Number of Marimbas Number of Timpani Sets Includes Rhythm Section Duration Item Weight Response Frequency Range Impedance Sensitivity Amount of Phantom Power Required Connector Type Microphone Type Polar Pattern Number of Voices Number of Drum Set Samples Polyphony Sequencer Details Display Type & Size Number & Type of Connections Type of Power Supply Octave Range Length of Warranty Hoop Type Sub Type What's Included Height Width Series Material Color Surface Type Diameter Depth Included Equipment Drum Head Type Difficulty Advanced Number of Mallets 6 Number of Performers 6 Drive Type Footboard Length Transportation Method Number of Drums Hardness Part Type Practice Pad Options Length Bead Seat Type Author/Composer Reich, Steve Size Artist Minimum Tube Size Bore Size Bell Size Includes Tuning Slide Trigger Marching Tuba Type Number of Valves Exterior Material Interior Material Includes Head Is Mountable Bowl Material Bowl Type Includes Gauges Thickness Number of Plies Collar Type Shaft Material Carrier Connection Type Mount Type Compatible Brands Playing Position Is Tiltable Leg Type Maximum Instrument Size Minimum Instrument Size Shape Number of Feet Base Type Is Height Adjustable Thread Size Cymbal Finish Maximum Height Synth Stand Type State List !None! Jingle Rows Compatible With -
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