Watch the Melting Glaciers

Gary Fieldman

2 Players

Medium Duet for Marimba and Piano

Instrumentation:

• Marimba—4-octave
• Piano

Watch the Melting Glaciers is an intermediate level composition for two-mallet marimba and piano. It utilizes the polyrhythm of four over three, which is also found in the speech cadence of the title itself.

Delineated in seven sections, Glaciers is a programmatic composition loosely constructed around the subject of global warming. Built on a major/minor tonality, it has a sound that is both accessible and contemporary. The element of improvisation is employed in one section, and improvisational suggestions are offered in the performance notes.

This piece comes as a professionally printed and bound score and includes individual parts in PDF format for printing or for tablet viewing.

Check out Gary Fieldman’s brand new CD (released 2016), Grasp the Swallow’s Tail, which features Watch the Melting Glaciers.