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solo repertoire!

This list represents the solo and chamber percussion and piano repertoire that I have learned, studied, and or/perfomed since I began high school! Performance of many (but not all) of the solo works listed here, and some of the chamber works, can be found in the "videos" section.
 

  Marimba Solo:  

  • Abe - Frogs

  • Arlen arr. Oetomo - Over the Rainbow

  • Bach - Cello Suite no. 1 in G Major — I-VI

  • Bach - Cello Suite no. 2 in D Minor — I-VI

  • Bach - Cello Suite no. 3 in C Major — I-VI

  • Bach - Cello Suite no. 4 in Eb Major --- VI. Gigue

  • Bissell - The Alabados Song

  • Bobo - Petite Rhapsody

  • Creston - Concertino for Marimba — III. Q. = 120

  • Druckman - Reflections on the Nature of Water --- I-VI

  • Gomez/Rife - Rain Dance

  • Marjan - Lemuria

  • Muniz - Eruption of Sakurajima

  • Rosauro - Concerto for Marimba No. 1 — I-IV

  • Rosauro - Suite Popular Brasiliera — I-IV

  • Sammut - Four Rotations for Marimba — I. Rotation I

  • Sammut - Libertango

  • Sanchez-Gutierrez - Winik/Te'

  • Smadbeck - Rhythm Song

  • Stout - Four Episodes for Solo Marimba — I. Episode I

  • Stout - Rumble Strips — I, II

  • Stout - Two Mexican Dances for Marimba — I, II

  • Tanaka - Two Movements for Marimba — I. Q = 132

  • Trevino - Strive to be Happy

  • Vinao - Khan Variations

  • Waters - Barney and Pa's Theme

  • Waters - Drifting Earth

  • Waters - Juvenoia

  • Waters - Nineteen to the Dozen

  • Waters - Portraits of the Lost — I-IV

  • Waters - She Who Nurses Butterflies

  • Waters - Spinal Tap

 

  Other Keyboard Solo:  

  • Ali - Perseverance --- I-III (Combined Marimba/Vibraphone)

  • Bonitatibus - Day Spent in a Field (Vibraphone)

  • Green - Chromatic Fox Trot (Xylophone)

  • Green - Triplets (Xylophone)

  • Köksal - Etudes for Xylophone --- I-IV (Xylophone)

  • Newman arr. Waters - I Think It's Going to Rain Today (Vibraphone)

  • Saunders Smith - Thaw (Glockenspiel)

  • Warshaw - Playing with Skeletons (Xylophone)

  • Waters - Edison (Vibraphone)

  • Waters - Holding On (Vibraphone)

  • Waters - Junebugs --- I-VI (Xylophone)

 

  Snare Drum Solo:  

  • Atkatz - Tributes for Snare Drum — 21. For Abel

  • Beck - Excerpt Etude for Snare Drum

  • Blume - Kids These Days…

  • Delecluse - Twelve Etudes for Snare Drum — No.s 1, 6, 9, 10

  • Kennedy - Trouble in Aberdeen

  • Pickering - [A]tudes for Snare Drum — [G]tude, [I]tude, [L]tude, [R]tude, [W]tude

  • Waters - Dielectric Breakdown

  • Waters - Manhattan

  • Wharton - Kingdoms

  • Wharton - Phylogenesis

 

  Timpani Solo:  

  • Beck - Sonata for Timpani — I-III

  • Carter - Eight Pieces for Four Timpani — VII. Canaries

  • Curtis - Saturday in January — I, II of 3

  • Deane - Prelude no. 5: The Bones of Chuang Tzu

  • Firth - The Solo Timpanist — no. 3

  • Tate - Talowa' Hiloha (Thunder Song)

 

  Other Percussion Solo:  

  • Akiho - carTogRAPH (Multi-Percussion)

  • Carson - Chthosis (Multi-Percussion)

  • Dekaney - Three Movements for Solo Drumset — I-III

  • Fung - The Ice is Talking (Ice Blocks)

  • Keown - Constructive Interference — II (Multi-Percussion)

  • Nemtsov - Tür (“Pseudo-Drumset”)

  • Saariaho - Six Japanese Gardens --- I-VI (Multi-Percussion)

  • Waters - Werewolf Etude (Bongos)

  Piano Solo:  

  • Adams - China Gates

  • Alford - Colonel Bogey March

  • Bach - Invention no. 3 in D Major

  • Bach - Invention no. 8 in F Major

  • Brahms - Romanze in F Major, op. 118 no. 5

  • Clementi - Sonatina in C Major, op. 36 no. 1 — I-III

  • Dvorak - Humoresque no. 7

  • Gershwin - Three Preludes — I, II of 3

  • Grainger arr. Waters - Australian Up-Country Tune

  • Grieg - Anitra’s Dance

  • Haydn - Piano Sonata in D Major, Hob. XVI: 24 — I-III

  • Ives - Piano Sonata no. 2 — III. The Alcotts

  • Joplin - Maple Leaf Rag

  • MacDowell - Woodland Sketches — I-X

  • McLaughlin - Synaesthesia

  • Mendelssohn - Volkslied, op. 53 no. 5

  • Mussorgsky - Pictures at an Exhibition — I, II of 10

  • Prokofiev - Montagues and Capulets

  • Rimsky-Korsakov - Scheherazade — III. The Young Prince and the Young Princess

  • Schumann - Piano Sonata in G Minor — III. Scherzo

  • Sibelius - Finlandia

  • Spittal arr. Waters - Pacem

  • Still — A Deserted Plantation — III. Dance

  • Waters - Rainbow Suite — I-VI

  • Waters - Solstice||ecitsloS

  • Whitacre - The Seal Lullaby

  • Whitacre arr. Kim - Sleep

  • Zeitler - An Exaltation of Larks

 

  Chamber Ensemble:  

  • Akiho - Pillar VI

  • Argenziano - Stinkin’ Garbage

  • Blaha - The Night Watch — II. The Conflicted Youth

  • Brooks - Streets of Ankara

  • Broughton - Percolating

  • Burtner - Threnody (Sikuigvik)

  • Cangelosi - Ghoul Theater — III. Dance

  • Casella - Compound Autonomy

  • Chávez - Toccata

  • Clarke - Maya

  • Deane - The Titanic Days

  • Deane - Vespertine Formations

  • Fisher-Lochhead - stutter-step the concept

  • Ford - Cabasa!

  • Forq arr. Waters - Taizo

  • Garland - Apple Blossom

  • Gauger - Portico

  • Gordon - Timber

  • Green arr. Becker - Ragtime Robin

  • Hagan - Lineament

  • Hall - Escape Velocity

  • Hall - Liminality

  • Haydn - String Quartet no. 52 in Eb Major — IV. Finale (adapted for percussion)

  • Hearnes - Drums. Loud. Good.

  • Honstein - Patter

  • Iyer - Torque — II. A slow strut

  • Khachaturian arr. Peters - Sabre Dance

  • Kotcheff - Part and Parcel

  • Maricle - Table Top Rock

  • McLaughlin arr. Waters - Full of Love

  • Mettens - Figment

  • Munson/Leonard/Brooks arr. Singer - Ida/Some of These Days

  • Myers - Duo Chromatic

  • Of Monsters and Men arr. Waters - Crystals

  • Oliveros - Rock Piece

  • Peacocke - Death Wish

  • Psathas - Kyoto

  • Psathas arr. Carmenates - Djinn — III. Outdreaming the Genie

  • Ptaszyńska - Mobile --- A, B, E, H, M, N, S, W, Z

  • Reich - Drumming --- I-IV

  • Reid - Push/Pull (Orlando Sleep Requiem)

  • Roldan - Ritmicas --- no. 5, 6

  • Rollins arr. Mattson - Bartok Builds a Snowman

  • Shafran - Game of the Century

  • Shaw - Let the Soil Play Its Simple Part

  • Shostakovich - The Nose --- Entr'acte

  • Simmons - Music for Sitting 03b

  • Simon - Gloria

  • Sriji - Iyyar

  • Sriji - Sweet 17

  • Tcherepnin - Symphony no. 1 --- II.

  • Ten Holt arr. Hall/Wallace - Canto Ostinato

  • Traditional arr. Rennick - Paso Doble

  • Trevino - 2300 Degrees

  • Trevino - Empathy

  • Varèse - Ionisation

  • Viñao - Patterns & Form --- I. The Fabric of Pulse

  • Viñao - Water --- I-III

  • Walker - Time’s Up

  • Waters - 44th Street Funk

  • Waters - Afterburners Required

  • Waters - Ballad of the Silver-Tongued Pantomime

  • Waters - Forward, Beyond Perception

  • Waters - Immortal

  • Waters - Nineteen to the Dozen (Percussion Ensemble)

  • Waters - Refracted Across Infinity

  • Waters - Scandinavian Dances – I-V

  • Waters - Star Map

  • Webber arr. Waters - Memory

 

  Method/Etude Books Studied:  

  • Carroll (comp.) - Orchestral Repertoire for the Snare Drum

  • Cirone - Portraits in Rhythm

  • Ford - Marimba: Technique Through Music

  • Ford/Rennick - Musical Connections: Sight Reading Duets for Snare Drum and Marimba

  • Friedman - Vibraphone Technique: Dampening and Pedaling

  • Garibaldi - Future Sounds

  • Goldenberg - Modern School for Marimba/Vibraphone/Xylophone

  • Goldenberg - Modern School for Snare Drum

  • Helbing - Studies in Syncopation

  • Helbing - Big Band Sight Reading Etudes, Vol. 1

  • Hochrainer - Etudes for Timpani

  • Malabe - Afro-Cuban Rhythms for Drumset

  • Max (comp.) - Orchestral Excerpts for Timpani

  • Peters - Advanced Snare Drum Studies

  • Peters - Fundamental Method for Timpani

  • Pratt - 14 Modern Contest Solos for Snare Drum

  • Riley - Survival Guide for the Modern Drummer

  • Soph - Big Band Primer

  • Soph - Musical Time

  • Stone - Accents and Rebounds

  • Stone - Stick Control

  • Uribe - The Essence of Afro-Cuban Percussion and Drumset

  • Wilcoxon - Modern Rudimental Swing Solos for the Advanced Drummer

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