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General Info

Year: 2000
Duration: c. 6:45
Difficulty: (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Christopher Deane, distributed by Smith
Cost: Score and Parts - $17.00 | Score Only - $0.00

'Note'From the collection "Marimba Concert", Sylvia Smith, editor - Level VI

Instrumentation

Marimba

Program Notes

Reviews

Errata

Awards

Commercial Discography

Online Recordings

Recent Performances

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Works for Percussion by this Composer

Mallet Percussion Solo Works

Dis Qui Etude – Vibraphone
Etude for a Quiet Hall – Marimba
In the Sea of Clouds – Marimba
Mourning Dove Sonnet – Vibraphone
Sea of Clouds – Marimba
The Apocryphal Still Life – Vibraphone
The Process of Invention – Marimba
Three Shells – Marimba

Timpani Solo Works

Prelude I – Timpani
Prelude II – Timpani
Prelude III – Timpani

Solo with Ensemble Works

The Titanic Days - Snare Drum; Percussion Septet

Ensemble Works

Almost Perpetual Torque - Mallet Trio
Arcanical Plains - 12 Players
Marimba Quartet No. 2 - Sensing the Coriolis - Percussion Quartet - Marimba Quartet
Scavenger Music – 3 Players
The Manes Scroll – 10 Players
Vespertine Formations – Percussion Quartet - Marimba Quartet

Additional Resources

References

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 == Program Notes ==
-Three Shells creates an abstract narrative between the basic motivic materials. An echo like motive based on a tone row gives a sustaining quality to the marimba while the second element emerges as a traditional melody accompainment figure. The third element is an interruptive motive based on the original row. Mark Ford performed the premier of Three Shells in 1993 and the work is dedictated to my sister Leslie, who's pen and ink drawing provided me with the title. The four mallets to be used when performing this work should be chosen with as rich a tone quality as is possible yet still having the capability to speak clearly in all registers and within a wide dynamic range.<ref>http://www.innovativepercussion.com/products/three_shells</ref>
 === Reviews ===
-"Three Shells is a work for solo marimba (a 4 1/3 octave instrument will suffice) that is probably already familiar to many serious marimbists. It has been available since 1992, the year it won second prize in the PAS composition competition, and can now be heard on Mark Ford's CD, Polaris. Three Shells is an excellent example of a composition that exploits a particular idiomatic technique used in the performance of an instrument--in this case, the execution of double lateral strokes, played simultaneously by both hands, and also alternated, hand-to-hand fashion. Of course, in the hands of a good composer, applications of a particular technical approach would be used only as a means to a musical end. This is the case with Deane's piece, which can certainly stand on its own musical merits. His use of the rapid, dependent rotary strokes sets up an interesting, kaleidoscopic effect, as right and left hands interact in various combinations. The repetitious motor rhythms set up by these interactions are broken up by contrasting slower, lyrical sections that utilize a rich harmonic palette. Any serious college marimbist, who has mastered the requisite techniques and spends the necessary time to learn this solo, should be amply rewarded for the effort." - John R. Raush Percussive Notes, April 1997<ref>http://www.innovativepercussion.com/products/three_shells</ref>
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 == Awards ==
-nd prize in the 1992 PAS Composition Competition
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