Twelve Original Works for Marimba Ensemble - Beginning to Intermediate
These pieces are drawn from the contemporary Zimbabwean-style marimba ensemble and encourage the performance of this beautiful and powerful music. The Wooden Voices series aims to provide quality pedagogical marimba works to complement and contrast traditional African marimba repertoire, offering student ensembles experience with different moods, modes, meters and forms.
The E-Book is in interactive PDF and EPUB formats. All links are active, music tracks are linked to each full score for listening as you read the score. The Table of Contents is linked back and forth to each title.
Also included are supplemental materials including PDF files of full scores and individual parts suitable for printing or for presentation stations and high quality Audio tracks in mp3 format recorded by Eric's community-based ensemble, Maryville Marimba.
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Eric Schopmeyer and Adrienne Leverette are the founders and directors of Marysville Marimba, called “the city’s most successful kid-music project” (Willamette Week). From 2000-2011, the popular program offered an after-school marimba curriculum to fourth- through eighth-graders. They have presented several workshops on marimba music for children at conferences and schools.
In addition to being an Orff-certified music teacher, Eric is a composer and performing musician, authoring many film scores and producing three albums of original music. Adrienne has degrees in clarinet performance and architecture and has also worked as a filmmaker and graphic artist. She currently works as a designer.
