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Joseph Schwantner - Velocities, Marimba Solo

From Jonathan Palmquist's Master of Music Percussion Recital at California State University, Northridge. April 18th, 2015. Velocities (Moto Perpetuo) Joseph Schwantner Composed: 1990 Length: c. 9 minutes Marimba Solo Velocities is a virtuosic four-mallet marimba solo with a continuous sixteenth note rhythm throughout, as the subtitle “moto perpetuo” indicates. It has established a spot among the most popular advanced marimba solos. The constant rhythm forces all the other musical elements such as dynamics, expression, and extended techniques, to be exercised to their full extent. It was commissioned by the Percussive Arts Society with a National Endowment for the Arts Consortium Commissioning Grant, and written for marimbist Leigh Howard Stevens. He premiered the piece in October 1990. Notes from the composer: “The music, as the title suggests, is characterized by continuously changing textures of rapidly articulated pitches within a framework of continually shifting meters. The linear, harmonic and gestural elements of the work are derived from four, five, six and seven-note pitch sets. The first major division (“relentlessly, with energy and intensity”) opens with a series of aggressive articulations of a repeating harmonic idea followed by wave-like ostinato figures presented in 7/8 meter. The second principal section continues with persistent sixteenth-notes, and rhythmic ideas and gestures framed in triple meter. The last major section re-engages the primary musical elements presented and developed earlier, and leads to a forceful and spirited conclusion.” Notes by Jonathan Palmquist