PlusFIVE

Josh Gottry

General Info

Year : 2018
Publisher: C. Alan Publications
Difficulty: Intermediate
Duration: 00:11:00
Cost: $40.00

Overview

Josh Gottry’s set of seven original solos for developing 4-mallet marimba technique entitled forFOUR, was created to address a demand for quality, introductory 4-mallet keyboard literature. Similarly, this new collection of percussion ensemble accompaniments was composed on commission to meet a request from several directors and percussion instructors who had the desire to provide an ensemble context for the study and performance of these developmental 4-mallet solos. Each percussion ensemble setting in this collection is scored for five players, includes both pitched and non-pitched percussion, and is orchestrated to fit precisely with the forFOUR solos as originally published.

Instrumentation

Soloist

Marimba

Percussion Ensemble

Player 1: Glockenspiel & Xylophone
Player 2: Vibraphone
Player 3: Timpani & Triangle & Cajon & Tambourine
Player 4: Triangle & Tambourine & Congas & 4 Concert Tom-toms
Player 5: Djembe & Congas & Shaker & Drum Set & Snare Drum & Splash Cymbal & Suspended Cymbal

Song List

1. Double Dip
2. Triple Vision
3. A Little Mixer
4. Feeling One
5. Chorale without Time
6. Groove
7. Bac-a-tu Ba

Program Notes

My set of seven original solos for developing 4-mallet marimba technique entitled forFOUR, was created to address a demand for quality, introductory 4-mallet keyboard literature. Similarly, this new collection of percussion ensemble accompaniments, titled plusFIVE, was composed on commission to meet a request from several directors and percussion instructors who had the desire to provide an ensemble context for the study and performance of these developmental 4-mallet solos. Each percussion ensemble setting in this collection is scored for five players, includes both pitched and non-pitched percussion, and is orchestrated to fit precisely with the forFOUR solos as originally published.

Recent Performance

Double Dip

<embedvideo service="youtube"> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3CKki4lGIw </embedvideo>

Triple Vision

<embedvideo service="youtube"> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0C2p11WqC8 </embedvideo>

Books for Percussion by this Author

Timpani

Pauken Pairings

Mallets

Two Steps Forward
forFOUR

Cajon

Take a Seat

Percussion Ensemble

plusFIVE

Classroom Percussion

Digging Deeper
Instrument Introductions

Co Author Books

The Art of Vibraphone Playing. - with Paul Buyer