Caterpillar Holiday introduces students to a style of playing that is aurally appealing and familiar, yet technically different from the standard string...
Fairly Fugal is loosely based around a fugue and has a distinctly Baroque character. This is a wonderful work for developing cohesiveness and awareness for...
The Grasshopper Chomp encourages students at this level to produce a full tone through the confident use of fast bow strokes.Program NotesThe Grasshopper Chomp...
Gulpy the Goldfish is designed for training beginner string ensembles to develop rhythmic cohesiveness.Program NotesGulpy the Goldfish is designed for training...
Imagine a singer/songwriter that doesn’t use a guitar or piano to accompany themselves, but a marimba! That’s what these three songs explore, but with some...
Written for percussionist Marco Schirripa, Mind Blow is a challenging 3-movement concert work for solo 5-octave marimba. As compositionally sophisticated as it...
Over the Rolling Downs evokes the images of gliding high above the landscape, following the contour of the lands that fall away below. Listening to the lilting...
This ensemble work has a balanced emphasis on pitched and non-pitched instruments. The rhythmic structure is based off of driving sixteenth not passages with...
Challnged by famed marimbist Gordon Stout to compose a work for flute & marimba, Josh Oxford impressively cranked out Salopettes in a matter of days. It is...