THE MAGIC BOX, a set of 12+ pieces for vibraphone & marimba

From my collection of NEW MUSIC for MALLET INSTRUMENTS, THE MAGIC BOX http://cs-music.com/magicbox.html

STARGAZING I: Three voices modulating metrically through different textures and constellations of tones, like points of light threaded together in a clear night sky... .  .    . 

DUO #vibraphone #marimba From THE MAGIC BOX: 
Stargazing I webscore http://bit.ly/18qiUI4 
score pdf http://bit.ly/IuziKI 
performancemodel mp3 http://bit.ly/Infpps

Most the MAGIC BOX pieces are performed both by heart, and twice, w/ the two performers switching parts. You'll be amazed at the difference this makes. Your audience will love it!

For study help, contact me at cliff@picture-poems.com
Rehearsal time for serious performers via SKYPE w/
handle "cliffcrego"

ALLOW 2 or 3 week response time, as I'm also a wilderness
photographer, and frequently out of the picture-poems
Office doing fieldwork.

from THE MAGIC BOX: "Star Gazing I," for vibraphone & marimba

PASSAGGIO is part VI of my THE MAGIC BOX project, a set of duos for mallet instruments. SEE http://cs-music.com/magicbox.html

...A journey of 1000 steps along
the wandering ways of a whispering bass.....

webscore http://bit.ly/1eUvPkC
pdf http://bit.ly/18kXLZZ

from THE MAGIC BOX: "Passaggio," for vibraphone & marimba

from THE MAGIC BOX Project, "A one page 3/4 honky-tonk on top of a rock-solid 4/4 bass," on the web at:
http://www.cs-music.com/magicbox.html

This is a little encore piece. Make sure to switch parts at the repeat, if possible, without missing a beat! 

download mp3 [2.5 Mb] http://bit.ly/TlFXGT 

webscore http://www.cs-music.com/magicbox/4-square-1.html

performance pdf http://bit.ly/JbRkTm

from THE MAGIC BOX: "4 Square" for vibraphone & marimba

THIS IS THE marimba movement of my StarCycle Project, SPICA, for solo percussionist, "Night Phantom." Each piece of SPICA finds its place within a circle of nine stations or movements, and is written for a different set of instruments. NIGHT PHANTOM, although short, stands on its own, so it can easily be studied and played as an independent project. [PHOTO: Whitewater flowform in moonlight]

STUDY/PERFORMANCE materials are at my website:

see INTRO to the entire StarCycle Project,
SPICA--for percussion solo bit.ly/1bejhph
webscore Movement IV http://bit.ly/V62ayf
score Movement IV pdf http://bit.ly/Um5Zgf [prints landscape A3 cardstock]
performance model mp3 [1.6 Mb] http://bit.ly/TohN0X

Or visit my percussion page, NEW MUSIC for DRUMS at:
cs-music.com/drums

[If you're ambitious enough to learn the piece by heart first, we might be able to arrange some rehearsal sessions via SKYPE. SKYPE me at handle, cliffcrego, or email to cliff@picture-poems.com (I'm also a wilderness photographer, so allow a few weeks answering time, if I'm out of the Office doing fieldwork.]

StarCycle Project, SPICA for percussion solo, IV "Night Phantom" for marimba

BLUE MONK variations is both a musical homage to the great pianist and composer, Thelonious MONK, as well as a kind of improvised meditation on the tune. It's just a way of thinking about music. Instead of writing words ABOUT music, which, of course, I'm doing now, we sit down and compose a piece about a piece, as a kind of playful journey into the wilds which might lie ahead.

The pieces was written for my mallet virtuosi friends, Niels Meliefste and Claire Edwards, of DUO VERTIGO

GO TO webscore w/ color dynamics raindbow [purple=ppp >>> red=ff] http://bit.ly/g26GM5
DOWNLOAD performance score pdf http://bit.ly/TIWTvL
DOWNLOAD performance model mp3 http://bit.ly/gWBVeq

BLUE MONK variations, for vibraphone & marimba

A 3/4 CYCLE on top of a rock solid 4/4 bass....

DUO "4square" #viola & #guitar webscore http://bit.ly/1xLqmbk  pdf http://bit.ly/1rToOsK  mp3 http://bit.ly/1xLqmbn  

DUO "4Square"--for viola & guitar

VIEW iPad webscore at: http://www.cs-music.com/drums/move-over_mallets-1.html

AS ENSEMBLE, one can easily double the voices; perform preferably without conductor, without music.

DOWNLOAD score pdf at: http://www.cs-music.com/drums/move-over_mallets.pdf

DOWNLOAD parts pdf at: http://www.cs-music.com/drums/move-over_mallets-parts.pdf


MOV, "Move Over variations," after the Janis Joplin classic, for mallet quartet

TIMELINE is a part of my MAGIC BOX project for mallet instruments http://www.cs-music.com/magicbox.html

Timeline was written for my former teacher, mentor & friend, the late American composer, Donald Erb, on the happy occasion of his 80th birthday.

SEE INTRO to Timeline at: http://www.cs-music.com/drums/intro-timeline.html

GO TO iPad webscore at: http://www.cs-music.com/drums/timeline-1.html

DOWNLOAD score at: http://cs-music.com/drums/timeline.pdf

DOWNLOAD parts at: http://cs-music.com/drums/timeline_parts.pdf


TIMELINE, a vibraphone & marimba duo, for Donald Erb (1928-2008)

This is a set of aphorisms and sayings that goes with my calendar for teachers and students (like myself) of Yoga & the Alexander Technique. My idea is that both are necessary for education. In my view, this is most especially true in the performing Arts.

The Alexander Technique is a subtle method of integrating mind and body in such a way that each functions with maximum efficiency and ease and minimum stress and tension. The Technique is an educational process which provides an individual with the means to identify and change habits and attitudes interfering with "the proper use of oneself."

Download the ebook version of the 2018 AT CALENDAR at: pdf [7.5Mb] http://bit.ly/2nbJrTu  

OR BUY PRINT version at : http://bit.ly/1uhzpKV

TWIN GUIDEPOSTS TO LEARNING, Yoga & The Alexander Technique / 12 aphorisms

Premiere performance, by Niels Meliefste & Joeke Hoekstra, at the Royal Conservatory, the Hague, the Netherlands SEE webscore at: http://bit.ly/10Br4ur DOWNLOAD pdf at: http://bit.ly/1rVOS2v

DUO VERTIGO, w/ Niels Meliefste & Clare Edwards, has an excellent recording of the INVENTION, as well as three other MAGIC BOX pieces, on their CD, "Vertigo One." http://amzn.to/1rVNWv6

Bo to THE MAGIC BOX project, for mallet instruments, at: http://www.cs-music.com/magicbox.html


from THE MAGIC BOX, "An Invention in 2 Voices,, for vibraphone & marimba

TWO STREAMS OF complementary movement, one in 5, the other in 3...[This is just a little 2 minute piece, so, if played separately, you might try performing it twice while switching parts; it's a good way to really master the independent, composite, polymetric rhythms...]

WEBSCORE is at: http://www.cs-music.com/magicbox/magicbox-1.html

Performance score pdf [FOUR a3 pages/88k] is at: http://www.cs-music.com/magicbox/pdfs/download_magicbox.pdf 

MINI WEBSITE for the MAGIC BOX Project is at: http://www.cs-music.com/magicbox.html

THE MAGIC BOX, 1st piece in a project for vibraphone & marimba

"Moonstone" is the 6th movement for solo vibraphone of the StarCycle Project, SPICA. Webscore is at: http://cs-music.com/starcycle/spica-move6a.html PDF http://cs-music.com/starcycle/pdfs/spica-move6.pdf INTO for the whole SPICA project is at: http://cs-music.com/starcycle/intro_spica.html


from StarCycle Project: SPICA VI, "Moonstone," for vibraphone

from THE MAGIC BOX Project, "4-page sonata" & "study in 15," two contrasting movements for vibraphone & marimba

BACK TO BACK, here you have two fundamentally different rhythmic movements, one based on geometric spirals or temporal glissandi, the other, based on a rock-solid, constant pulse of 15 beats. They are both, in my view, difficult to do really well. One because it is new; the other because we generally don't work in the right manner to make rhythmic pulses totally second nature and learn to play from a shared, deeply rooted, rhythmic ground. The homepage for THE MAGIC BOX is at: http://www.cs-music.com/magicbox.html

WebSCORE for "4-page-sonata" is at: http://bit.ly/1FG5McU pdf http://bit.ly/1FG5VgH

WebSCORE for "study in 15" is at: http://bit.ly/18vd6ON pdf http://bit.ly/18vdeh0

Whereas the "study in 15" has been played many times by different duos, AS FAR AS I KNOW, the "4-page sonata" has never been performed. That's not because it's objectively so difficult. Rather, I think it's probably because the notation of the temporal glissandi leaves much to desired, at first glance looking strange, if not unplayable. But this is only at first. The idea is to get past the "training wheels" stage of numbers and notation and learn to sense the movements ORGANICALLY. I did an intro to help you get this process started on SOUNDCLOUD at: from StarCycle Project: INTRO to "Strange Loops" & m--for solo viola http://bit.ly/1BIveBg

THE GOAL YOU want you have clearly before you, like a mountain in distance, is to get rid of the music -- a handicap at best -- and play by heart. AND, as always with my scores at THE CIRCLE IN THE SQUARE, they are open source, so tear them apart, make them your own, and feel free to make arrangements for different, perhaps better, groups of instruments!








from THE MAGIC BOX, "4-page sonata" & "study in 15," two contrasting movements, for vibes & marimba

THIS IS A little improvised introduction to #Dialogue & what I call the red circle of 10 primary problems. Download referred to 100 MINIATURE posters I refer to at: (1) 10 PRIMARY PROBLEMS web http://bit.ly/1DrNyJV pdf http://bit.ly/1BuI9VX (2) DOUBLE CIRCLE of DIALOGUE web http://bit.ly/1DrOpu8 pdf http://bit.ly/1DrOIVX (3) ZERO WASTE web http://bit.ly/1zQMqyt pdf http://bit.ly/1zQMwGf (4) RIGHT ACTION INF THE FACE OF RUNAWAY CLIMATE CHANGE web http://bit.ly/1Cfbgh8 pdf http://bit.ly/1CfbmFG

FOR BACKGROUND ON Krishnamurti: The Story of Krishnamurti: W/ A Silent Mind http://bit.ly/16gVO6Q "Outside all Space & beyond all Time" #nonviolence #dialogue #meditation

FOR THE K/BOHM  dialogues [for some reason, I prefer studying them 12 to 1, backwards...]: LISTENING: #KRISHNAMURTI & #DavidBohm in dialogue: Can the brain free itself from all self-delusion? (12/12) http://bit.ly/1709AaD

MUSIC featured in header & coda is from THE MAGIC BOX project, "The Little Triangle," for #vibraphone & #marimba; it's a little Stravinsky-like study on 4 in the time of 3. The webscore is at: http://bit.ly/1wG9jDo pdf http://bit.ly/1CfchWI mp3 http://bit.ly/1wGakeF

INTRO: 10 Primary Problems, Thought & the Double Circle of Dialogue

Composer. Writer. Photographer. Former conductor & founder of the ASKO ensemble.

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WEEKLY photo/poetry updates at www.picture-poems.com & THE CIRCLE IN THE SQUARE new music, poetry & dance performance project at www.cs-music.com

ALWAYS ON THE LOOKOUT for progressive, tech-savy, instrumental virtuosi interested in dialogue & collaborative undertakings.

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MUSIC? The one thing humans do,
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THE MAGIC BOX, a set of 12+ pieces for vibraphone & marimba

Cliff Crego