Sheet Music for Mallets

Featuring multiple mallet changes, most of this solo for marimba and piano is played with two mallets, though sections incorporating four-mallet technique are also featured.

This beautiul piece for four-mallets is in ABA form. It is a wonderful contest or recital piece for those looking to balance more technical works with something more lyrical with rolling chord pattern...

Contents: I. Mountain Song and II. Rosewood Forest

This three movement (fast-slow-fast), four mallet composition is an ideal contest or recital piece for intermediate players.

A solo marimba setting of an Applachian folk song, dedicated by the composer to his wife Betsy.

A single movement contest solo for marimba written in the style of a minuet.

This intermediate to advanced mallet solo features shifting accents over a 'perpetual motion' sixteenth note pulse in the opening and closing sections. A more lyrical Adagio middle section employs rol...

A single movement gigue for mallet instrument and piano, with a middle section in Bb major with D minor at the begginning and end. Todd A. Ukena is a composer and arranger of percussion literature and...

This two-mallet solo is a great contest or recital selection for the intermediate percussionist. Players will find both technically challenging sections and slower, lyrical parts.

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 four-mallet solo for the advanced maribma player offers syncopated rhythms and multiple meters. It is a wonderful selection for contest or recital.

Originally written by Handel for violin and continuo (HWV 370), this edition has been arranged by Linda Maxey for marimba solo with piano accompaniment.

This beginning to intermediate arrangement is ideal for young players developing phrasing and legato technique on marimba.

An original two movement duo for marimbas by Boston Symphony Orchestra percussioinist Thomas Gauger.