Alice Gomez

Jambo was commissioned in 2003 by the Texas Lutheran University Department of Music. It is intended to be a friendly piece of music, as Jambo is the Swahili word for Hello. It is a call for more kindn...

Rain Dance by Alice Gomez has become a popular choice for beginning marimba players. Simple melodic statements make this work a catchy favorite. Beginning 4 mallet marimba players will enjoy the synco...

Written as a tribute to the Army Paratrooper team, this tuneful, mid-tempo march contains interesting parts for each section, with a short drum break before the trio that makes the piece a good choice...

Grade 3.5, Dur.: 04:00

This enjoyable and challenging contest piece for marimba evokes the African Mbira, or 'thumb piano' with its driving rhythmic ostinatos and pentatonic melodies.

This piece for two marimba players challengers the musicians, not with the individual parts, but with the musicianship required to combine the two parts together. Full of hemiola patterns, syncopated...

This mambo is written in 5/4. Instrumentation: Maracas, Claves, Bongos, Congas, and 2 Marimba players (both marimba parts can be played on one instrument.)

This collection of music consists of four duets for small percussion instruments. It has been written with the intention of not only exposing students to various techniques of playing small percussion...

This lively, up-tempo title for mixed percussion octet is a wonderful piece for advanced percussion groups wishing to work on complex and mixed meters. Instrumentation: 1. Xylophone, 2. 1st Marimba, 3...

Movement titles: 1. Quartz, 2. Diamond. The performance of this piece requires two snare drums and multi-rods in addition to standard drum sticks.

A three movement work for vibraphone, xylophone, and two marimbas, this programmatic piece depicts stages of the great biblical flood. Movements are: I. Raindrops, II. The Flood, III. Rainbows

Movements: I. Mayans, II. Navaho, III. Crow

Five songs evoking Latin American traditional styles such as the Son, Ranchera and Choro where emphasis is on flute with guitar and other plucked string instruments. Movement titles: 1. El Vaquero (Th...

This collection contains four original works in different Latin American styles. Two Hears is written in the slow and sultry fashion of the Afro-Peruvian lando. Brazilian Rondo is a Brazilian samba wi...

Written as a tribute to the Army Paratrooper team, this tuneful, mid-tempo march contains interesting parts for each section, with a short drum break before the trio that makes the piece a good choice...