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Shona Dream Dance
Classical • 1987
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Instrumentation |
Marimba |
Scored for |
Solo |
Type of score |
For a single performer |
Publisher |
Mark Duggan |
Difficulty |
Advanced |
Duration |
7'9 |
Shona Dream Dance is a work for solo marimba inspired by the mbira music of the Shona people of Zimbabwe. The mbira is better known as a kalimba or thumb piano, and its music is traditionally based on a fairly simple harmonic sequence, which is then developed by layering two or three voices in various rhythmic patterns and syncopating them in such a way as to imply a variety of downbeats. The inspiration for this piece came from my initial studies of the mbira and of a dream I had, while writing it, of an African woman dancing.
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