Caritas
General Info
Year: 1992
Duration: c. 12:45
Difficulty: Grade 5+
Publisher: KPP
Cost: Score and Parts - $16.00 | Score Only - $0.00
Movements
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III.
Instrumentation
Program Notes
dedication: to the composer's daughters, Jennifer and Kelsey
Review
Caritas is a solo for a low-E marimba requiring traditional, independent and double lateral rolls. The three movements are "Mystic," "Solemn" and "Majestic." Each movement is "without meter indications in the hope that it will give the work a seamless visual concept." "Mystic" is marked at quarter note = 60 and for the most part is a series of thirty-second notes punctuated with ritards, accelerandos, crescendos and diminuendos. "Solemn" is a chorale with a strong sense of tempo at quarter note = 44. "Majestic" starts in a free improvised style and quickly progresses to a steady tempo of quarter note = 100. This tempo remains for the bulk of the movement but slows up towards the end. The ending, like the beginning, is in a free, improvised style. Caritas is an excellent solo for a mature marimbist with good four- mallet skills. Burritt always writes in an idiomatic style, and his knowledge of the marimba produces music that flatters the instrument. - John Beck, Dec. 1997[1]
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MVMNT 1
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MVMNT 3
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Works for Percussion by this Composer
Marimba Solo
Azure - Marimba
Caritas - Marimba
Etudes No. 4, 5, 6 - Marimba
Fermo - Marimba
Four Movements for Marimba - Marimba
I Gabbiani
Marimbetudes
Marimbetudes II
October Night
Out of the Blue - Marimba; Piano
Preludes 1-5
Scirocco
Shadow Chaser (Solo)
The Offering (Prelude 6)
Marimba Solo with Percussion Ensemble
Rounders - Marimba; Percussion Trio
Shadow Chaser (Ensemble) - Marimba; Percussion Sextet
Timeless (Percussion Ensemble Version) - Marimba; Percussion Trio
To the Nines - Marimba; Percussion Trio
Willow - Marimba; Percussion Quartet
Snare Drum Solo
Cooper - Snare Drum
Spero - Snare Drum; Percussion Trio; Piano
Multiple Percussion Solo
Sticks of Eloquence - Multiple Percussion
Percussion Concerto
Concerto for Marimba (Burritt) - Marimba; Chamber Orchestra
Duo Concertante - Concerto for Percussion and Clarinet - Multiple Percussion; Clarinet; Wind Ensemble
Percussion Ensemble
MAG7: Rhapsody No. 1 - Percussion Septet
Marimba Quartet (Burritt) - Marimba Quartet
The Doomsday Machine - Percussion Quartet
Traveling Music - Percussion Octet; Horn
Waking Dreams - Marimba; Percussion Quintet
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