According to the title of this composition The Traveller
my mind was on a man’s journey.
This piece of music tells about his amazing course to a foreign,
unknown land far away.
In the run of this composition the journey becomes more excited,
new impressions provide unexpectable impulses.
The Traveller can be played on a C Marimba.
Coverpainting: Jürgen Wittiber

PERCUSSIVE NOTES 04.2005
This four-mallet marimba solo is written for a five-octave instrument.
The composer takes us through a journey of idioms that describe the styles of different cultures. The opening theme is in duple meter and consists of a series of arpeggios and mallet rotations. The initial theme is followed by similar patterns, but now in a more
frantic manner, with the right and left hand echoed by playing all sixteenth notes.
The middle section contains rhythmic figures and patterns that are found in many Latinjazz
recordings. The work closes with a coda in 6/16 meter, ending on an a-minor chord.
The solo is predictable through the use of motives that are repeated with slight pitch or harmonic variations.
This is an excellent solo and is within the level of an advanced high school or young
college student. George Frock