PlusFIVE
General Info
Year of Published : 2018
Publisher: C. Alan Publications
Difficulty: Intermediate
Duration: 00:11:00
Cost: $40.00
Overview
Josh Gottry’s set of seven original solos for developing 4-mallet marimba technique entitled forFOUR, was created to address a demand for quality, introductory 4-mallet keyboard literature. Similarly, this new collection of percussion ensemble accompaniments was composed on commission to meet a request from several directors and percussion instructors who had the desire to provide an ensemble context for the study and performance of these developmental 4-mallet solos. Each percussion ensemble setting in this collection is scored for five players, includes both pitched and non-pitched percussion, and is orchestrated to fit precisely with the forFOUR solos as originally published.
Instrumentation
Soloist
Percussion Ensemble
Player 1: Glockenspiel & Xylophone
Player 2: Vibraphone
Player 3: Timpani & Triangle & Cajon & Tambourine
Player 4: Triangle & Tambourine & Congas & 4 Concert Tom-toms
Player 5: Djembe & Congas & Shaker & Drum Set & Snare Drum & Splash Cymbal & Suspended Cymbal
Song List
1. Double Dip
2. Triple Vision
3. A Little Mixer
4. Feeling One
5. Chorale without Time
6. Groove
7. Bac-a-tu Ba
Program Notes
My set of seven original solos for developing 4-mallet marimba technique entitled forFOUR, was created to address a demand for quality, introductory 4-mallet keyboard literature. Similarly, this new collection of percussion ensemble accompaniments, titled plusFIVE, was composed on commission to meet a request from several directors and percussion instructors who had the desire to provide an ensemble context for the study and performance of these developmental 4-mallet solos. Each percussion ensemble setting in this collection is scored for five players, includes both pitched and non-pitched percussion, and is orchestrated to fit precisely with the forFOUR solos as originally published.
Recent Performance
Double Dip
Triple Vision
Books for Percussion by this Author
Timpani
Mallets
Cajon
Percussion Ensemble
Classroom Percussion
Digging Deeper
Instrument Introductions
Co Author Books
Buyer, Paul; Gottry, Josh. The Art of Vibraphone Playing. Meredith Music Publications, 2017.