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STATE UNIVERSITY BANDS Strange Humors 987 38

Marimba
John Mackey
=76 circa, very free
4 4

Irregular grouping of fast notes, like a broken tremolo. Very hard mallets.
The notes should be secco, ad lib, grouped by very short pauses
between them. Think of fast Morse code or a bug zapper.
10

B
rit. =120
14 2

53

2 1 1 2 1 1 2 5 0 1 1 7 5
F
65

cresc.

very hard mallets

77
2 5 7 2

fif

103
7

fiff fiff
SP

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mf

133

c r e s c .

138 M
12

152

fp

170

Sua-,
180

Siff
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Xylophone, Crotales (D, Eb, Ab), Suspended Cymbal
0=76 circa, very free John Mackey
4 4 4
14÷1

15 Sus. Cymb. rit. =120

2 7 14

PPP

Crotales

bowed

mf

48
8

G Xylophone
61
8 2

89
5 2 7 2

118

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124 Sus. Cymb.

8 4 12

PPPP mf

152 choke 3

180%2
ppp fiff

160 3 9 4 use xylophone mallets

PPPP

Xylophone gue--,
180

f f fiff
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STATE UNIVERSITY BANDS
Bass Drum John Mackey
use either a muted concert bass drum
or large (bass) djembe or other
d=76 circa, very free extremely deep hand drum
4
3
147+
n. PPP n.

rit.
12
t e 40
PP

19 0=120
t e : + 6 1 4 8 1 9 4 1 4 1
25

pp

tp:; Tele + 1 1 1 1 1 1
39

# : + 1 1 4 4 1 4 4 1 4 1 t

1 1 1 4 1 1
55

1 1 1 0 1 = 1 4 1 4 1 9 1 4 1 0 1 tote
62

70
1 1 0 1 9 9 ? 1 9 1 1
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7 6
+

101
2 3 2
+ 3 - 18 + +3
mp.
112

fff
119
3

mp
128

to 107-110910 201p120
pp

142

tota

149
2

PP
N
156 4 3
48 1 2 +

169

to t

177 3 3
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STATE UNIVERSITY BANDS
Vibes & Snare Drum
John Mackey
=76 circa, very free
4 4

slowly, completely freely, ad lib, out of tempo.

Vibes Don't follow conductor. Vary time between bows.
bowed
10 motor on, slow vibrato

PP
???.

rit. =120
bowed
mallets 14

mof

E
8 mallets

mf

64

b l o 4 0 5 0 1 0 5 5 7 1 1
cresc. =

to snare

69 8 8 8

94
7 2 7 2

V.S.
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