Mountain Climbing

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Mountain Climbing is one of three short pieces originally composed for Rhythm! Scene, a publication of the Percussive Arts Society. It is posted here as a free digital download that includes the music, a link to a video performance by the composer, and program and performance notes directed toward for pre-collegiate students preparing this solo on their own.

Mountain Climbing is a depiction of the rise and fall of mountain peaks in its use of ascending and descending scale fragments and arpeggios that span over two octaves of the marimba's range. Set in E-flat major and shifting briefly to C minor (the relative minor key), this solo explores rolls, accents, melodic minor accidentals, double stops, the chromatic scale, and a compound meter time signature. Mountain Climbing may be performed on xylophone if a marimba is not readily available.