The Three Banditos
for trio on one marimba
Price range: $14.00 through $35.00
Designed to expose young players to the concept of odd meters and Mexican folk music, Brian Slawson‘s The Three Banditos places three players onto one marimba. The result is a fun and educational piece that is both light and rhythmic.
This piece comes as a professionally printed and bound score and includes individual parts in PDF format for printing or for tablet viewing.
- Marimba—low A
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Jim Lambert –
Composer Brian Slawson has designed and composed a marimba trio for one 4.3-octave marimba, which recreates the character of the beautiful folk music of the Mexican marimba with the added challenge of multi-meter shifts from 5/8 to 3/8 and 3/4. The overall design of this two-minute ensemble is three-part structure (ABA) with the two fast sections sandwiching a lyrical middle section only 12 measures in length. Two-mallet technique is utilized throughout this ever-so-brief composition tonally set in F major. The three parts are in harmony, not unison, throughout this work.
This keyboard ensemble would be quite appropriate for the pre-college set of keyboard percussionists who have developed solid intermediate-level technique and rhythmic independence with shifting meters. Although memorization is not indicated to be a performance necessity, it would certainly enhance the performance of this unique trio on one marimba.