MAG7: Rhapsody No. 1

Michael Burritt

General Info

Difficulty: Advanced
Cost: $85.00

Instrumentation

Player 1: Marimba (5 octave) shared w/Player 2, 2 small concert toms
Player 2: Marimba (5 octave) shared w/Player 1, 2 large concert toms, cajon
Player 3: Marimba (5 octave) shared w/Player 4, 2 medium concert toms
Player 4: Marimba (5 octave) shared w/Player 3, concert bass drum, 2 large concert toms, 2 caxixi, glockenspiel with pedal
Player 5: Vibraphone, crotales, bongos
Player 6: Vibraphone, crotales, congas
Player 7: Djembe, small bass drum, mounted tom tom, hi hat, ribbon crasher, glockenspiel with pedal, sizzle cymbal, China cymbal, tam tam

Description

MAG7: Rhapsody No. 1 was written in the summer of 2017 and dedicated to my seven graduate students (The Magnificent Seven) who so brilliantly brought my new opus to life. The piece opens with a solo “riff” on marimba that serves as the seed for entire work. The rhythmic and metric development play with the quintuplet, first introduced in the opening section, as a tool for polyrhythmic hemiola and metric modulation. This is fully realized in the center of the work as the entire ensemble is playing varying layers in multiples of 5 tethered to a 5/4 meter. Like most of my music, MAG7 is a melting pot of genres and artistic influences coalescing in a pseudo-rhapsodic form.

Works for Percussion by this Composer

Marimba Solo

Azure - Marimba
Caritas - Marimba
Etudes No. 4, 5, 6 - Marimba
Fermo - Marimba
Four Movements for Marimba - Marimba
I Gabbiani
Marimbetudes
Marimbetudes II
October Night
Out of the Blue - Marimba; Piano
Preludes 1-5
Scirocco
Shadow Chaser (Solo)
The Offering (Prelude 6)

Marimba Solo with Percussion Ensemble

Rounders - Marimba; Percussion Trio
Shadow Chaser (Ensemble) - Marimba; Percussion Sextet
Timeless (Percussion Ensemble Version) - Marimba; Percussion Trio
To the Nines - Marimba; Percussion Trio
Willow - Marimba; Percussion Quartet

Snare Drum Solo

Cooper - Snare Drum
Spero - Snare Drum; Percussion Trio; Piano

Multiple Percussion Solo

Sticks of Eloquence - Multiple Percussion

Percussion Concerto

Concerto for Marimba (Burritt) - Marimba; Chamber Orchestra
Duo Concertante - Concerto for Percussion and Clarinet - Multiple Percussion; Clarinet; Wind Ensemble

Percussion Ensemble

MAG7: Rhapsody No. 1 - Percussion Septet
Marimba Quartet (Burritt) - Marimba Quartet
The Doomsday Machine - Percussion Quartet
Traveling Music - Percussion Octet; Horn
Waking Dreams - Marimba; Percussion Quintet