Gordon Stout

Gordon Stout (b.1952) is currently Professor of Percussion at the School of Music, Ithaca College, Ithaca, N.Y., where he has taught percussion since 1980. A composer as well as percussionist who specializes on marimba, he has studied composition with Joseph Schwantner, Samuel Adler and Warren Benson and percussion with James Salmon and John Beck. As a composer-recitalist he has premiered a number of his original compositions and works by other contemporary composers. Many of his compositions have already become standard repertoire for marimbists world-wide. His recordings are devoted not only to his own music, but also that of the general standard repertoire by important American composers. A frequent lecture-recitalist for the Percussive Arts Society, he has appeared at 12 International PAS Conventions to date, as featured marimbist, as well as at Days of Percussion in almost every state in the country. He has performed and taught throughout the United States and Canada, Europe, Japan, Taiwan, Thailand, Singapore, Spain, England, Puerto Rico, Hungary and Mexico . Gordon was inducted in to the PAS Hall of Fame in November of 2012 at PASIC-Austin. Gordon was on the Jury of the 1st and 2nd Leigh Howard Stevens International Marimba Competitions during the summers of 1995 and 1998. In the summer of 1998 he was a featured marimbist at the World Marimba Festival in Osaka, Japan and he was a member of the jury for the 2nd and 3rd World Marimba Competitions in Okaya, Japan and Stuttgart, Germany respectively. In the summer of 2006 he was a member of the jury at the International Marimba Competition in Linz, Austria. On new years day in 2006 he conducted a 100 person marimba orchestra in the National Concert Hall in Taipei, Taiwan as part of the Taiwan International Percussion Convention. His composition New York Triptych for marimba orchestra was commissioned by PAS and performed at the 50th Anniversary celebration of PASIC in 2011. Gordon's compositions are published by Keyboard Percussion Publications and Studio 4 Music, divisions of Marimba Productions, Inc.
Website: gordonstout.net

From Gordon Stout

Nocturne 1-10 Set

$40.00

A collection of 10 terrific pieces for four-mallet marimba ranging in difficulty from intermediate to advanced. They are between 2 and 6 minutes each and are based on very specific musical ideas, not specific techniques.

A collection of 10 terrific pieces for four-mallet marimba ranging in difficulty from intermediate to advanced. They are between 2 and 6 minutes each and are based on very specific musical ideas, not specific techniques.

Outgoing

$74.00

Outgoing (original version 2011) is scored for piano, marimba (5.0), timpani and two percussionists, and is approximately 9’30” in length. In instrumentation only, I had in mind the Sonata for Two Pianists and Two Percussionists by Bartok. The marimba part is the second piano part. There is a highly chromatic timpani part as in the Sonata. The percussion parts are really in effect a drum set part split into two parts, one playing the drums and one playing cymbals, thus completing the similarity in instrumentation to the Bartok Sonata. This is a broad and expansive work, encompassing a number of different styles of music and expressive capabilities of the exciting chamber group.

Outgoing (original version 2011) is scored for piano, marimba (5.0), timpani and two percussionists, and is approximately 9’30” in length. In instrumentation only, I had in mind the Sonata for Two Pianists and Two Percussionists by Bartok. The marimba part is the second piano part. There is a highly chromatic timpani part as in the Sonata. The percussion parts are really in effect a drum set part split into two parts, one playing the drums and one playing cymbals, thus completing the similarity in instrumentation to the Bartok Sonata. This is a broad and expansive work, encompassing a number of different styles of music and expressive capabilities of the exciting chamber group.

Outgoing 2

$95.00

Outgoing 2 for large percussion ensemble, is an orchestration of the original version of Outgoing. A very exciting composition, with lots of groove, intensity, and fun sections. Highly recommended for the advanced college percussion ensemble.

Outgoing 2 for large percussion ensemble, is an orchestration of the original version of Outgoing. A very exciting composition, with lots of groove, intensity, and fun sections. Highly recommended for the advanced college percussion ensemble.

Quondam Reflections

$11.00$13.00

The title, which essentially means “reflections on things from the past” doesn’t have much to do with the composition itself, Stout has said. Quondam Reflections is a tonal, multi-textural, polyphonic and multi-sectional work.

The title, which essentially means “reflections on things from the past” doesn’t have much to do with the composition itself, Stout has said. Quondam Reflections is a tonal, multi-textural, polyphonic and multi-sectional work.

Rivers of Wood

$19.00$22.00

The Rivers Music School in Boston commissioned this piece for the 22nd Annual Seminar on Contemporary Music for the Young. It was composed with an advanced young player in mind, but is musically sophisticated enough to be performed by college level players also.

The Rivers Music School in Boston commissioned this piece for the 22nd Annual Seminar on Contemporary Music for the Young. It was composed with an advanced young player in mind, but is musically sophisticated enough to be performed by college level players also.

Rumble Strips

$17.00$20.00

As the title suggests, it is a musical depiction of the warning bumps or grooves often found on roadways. With its two-movement format of slow-fast, it could serve as an alternative program selection to Merlin.

As the title suggests, it is a musical depiction of the warning bumps or grooves often found on roadways. With its two-movement format of slow-fast, it could serve as an alternative program selection to Merlin.

Skylark Orange Circles

$33.00$39.00

Duet for two marimbasSkylark Orange Circles is dedicated to the wonderful Japanese marimba virtuoso, Momoko Kamiya. The music is very dance-like in quality, going over and over through mostly the same sequence of harmonies while melodic variations are developed. The melodic ideas become more and more like a bird (or flute) singing as the work progresses.

Duet for two marimbasSkylark Orange Circles is dedicated to the wonderful Japanese marimba virtuoso, Momoko Kamiya. The music is very dance-like in quality, going over and over through mostly the same sequence of harmonies while melodic variations are developed. The melodic ideas become more and more like a bird (or flute) singing as the work progresses.

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