Blue Memories
Composer: Daniel Berg
Instrument: Marimba
Level: Intermediate
Published: 2010
Price: €16.00
Item details
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Description +
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Duration: 3 min.
Some memories are easy to tell - others are more like a feeling, difficult to put into words. This piece is an attempt to describe this feeling in music.
The harmonic tension between G major and F sharp minor, creates a melancholy mood - a kind of nostalgia - Blue Memories.
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Instrumentation +
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Marimba
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Blue Memories by Daniel Berg
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About the composer +
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Daniel Berg is a Swedish composer, musician, and professor in classical percussion at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm and at the Academy of music and drama in Gothenburg.
In his passion to promote the marimba as a solo- and chamber music instrument, Daniel has worked intimately with a number of composers who have written original music for the instrument. This includes more than 300 world premier for solo and chamber works. Daniel Berg is a marimba artist of Bergerault and Elite Mallets.
As a composer Daniel has written a lot for solo marimba like Mistral (for Michael Burritt), Phoenix (for Robert van Sice) and Yán Jiâng (for the Taiwan World Percussion Competition). His music for percussion ensemble have been appreciated and often performed like Kroumata (for sextet) and Arctic Nights (for quintet) - all published by Edition Svitzer.
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Reviews +
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Review (Percussive Notes, May 2012)
Creating his own unique voice for marimba, Daniel Berg demonstrates compositional strategies similar to “December” in this work. Displaying elements of simplicity, this mellow composition is only 47 measures in duration. Highly idiomatic, the composer uses three sticking permutations to structure the thematic material. While there are double vertical and single independent strokes, a majority of the piece revolves around lateral strokes. Also maintaining a consistency in intervals, the left hand has a strong presence of fourths and fifths while the right hand incorporates a lot of octaves.
Suitable for the developing marimbist, this short work would be a quick study for a young collegiate or advanced high school percussionist. In order to elicit the nostalgic character intended by the composer, any student will be challenged to obtain the desired mood through the endless stream of sixteenth notes. This is an excellent option for those who enjoy the sound of Berg’s works but would like a less virtuosic option than “Over the Moon.”
—Darin Olson
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Credits +
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Front Cover graphics and layout: Ronni Kot Wenzell
Enamel painting: Bengt Berglund
Engraving: Johan Svitzer
Printed in Copenhagen, Denmark
Copyright © Edition SVITZER
www.editionsvitzer.com
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