Includes score; two scores needed for performance.
Print size: Letter (8.5 x 11")
Click here to view a performance on YouTube.
Review from Percussive Notes (2021):
Jack and Gylie
David Macbride
Written for Mike Lunoe and Matt DelCiampo in 2009, “Jack and Gylie” is a duet in two short movements. Each player utilizes two ringing metal objects (temple bowls or other non-Western instruments) and a 14-note non-tempered scale (examples given by the composer are the gyile, timbrack of dry and uniform material, and homemade marimba). It should be noted that the sample recording on the publisher’s website seems to be performed on standard concert marimbas.
Material across both movements is ostinato- based, with repetitive patterns providing a basis for developmental deviation. The first movement utilizes repeating eighth notes over which the ringing metals sound. The middle section removes the ostinato and introduces a four-note figure that is metrically displaced between the players, after which the repeating eighth notes return and the two ideas are combined. The second movement is more lively and asymmetric, with an energetic dancing quality. This work as a whole is not overly difficult, and would work well as a stepping stone to more advanced works such as “Nagoya Marimbas.”
—Jamie Wind Whitmarsh
