Four Mallet Marimba Playing - A Musical Approach for All Levels. By Nancy Zeltsman. 192 pages. Published by Hal Leonard. This book contains a lot of music, from musical etudes designed for beginning and intermediate players, to recital material appropriate for intermediate and advanced marimbists.
It includes:
examples taken from contemporary solo and chamber works, with commentary and performance tips;
50 studies to develop four-mallet technique in a musical way;
18 classic and contemporary solos for recitals, auditions or juries, written by Beethoven, Handel, Chopin, Debussy, Leonard Bernstein, Duke Ellington and others;
and helpful guidelines for mallet selection, grip, strokes, tone production, rolls, stickings, phrasing and other important topics.
