Wind Chimes After the Storm by Alejandro Gonzalez © 2024 Tapspace Publications, LLC (ASCAP). All rights reserved.
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Wind chimes around the world come in many sizes, materials, and scales, and I wanted to bring that sense of uniqueness to this piece. One day during a thunderstorm, the wind chimes outside my studio window were ringing the same four notes over and over. I decided to play along with the wind chimes on my piano and started to feel a connection to something greater than myself. Using pentatonic scales and a very simple two-chord harmonic progression, this piece aims to transport players and listeners to a meditative state of consciousness. Increasing layers of rhythmic density propel it forward, and it subsides in a lone, simple statement of the primary motif to conclude the journey.
— Alejandro Gonzalez
This piece is essentially a mallet trio but can be expanded to include various percussion parts and extra keyboards as instruments and players allow. See the opposite page for more details.
Parts 2 and 3 require very basic 4-mallet playing. Mallet stickings are provided as suggestions, but feel free to alter them to the players’ skills and comfort.
While the score displays Part 3 in bass clef, the included set of parts contains both treble and bass clef options for Part 3. For players who don’t yet have experience reading bass clef, it may be preferable for them to read from a treble clef part. If choosing to use the treble clef version, the player would simply perform an octave lower than written on the marimba.
At minimum, Wind Chimes After the Storm can be performed as a mallet trio with this required instrumentation:
• Part 1 — Glockenspiel (or vibraphone)
• Parts 2 & 3 — Shared marimba (low A)
For a more comprehensive experience, the following optional percussion parts may be added:
• Part 4 (2-player option) — P1: snare drum, 2 toms (medium & low), suspended cymbal; P2: bass drum
• Part 4 (1-player option) — drumset (snare drum, 2 toms, cymbal, kick drum)
• Part 5 (1 or 2 players) — triangle, mark tree, rain stick (or ocean drum) (If Part 5 is played by one player, the triangle should be mounted to allow for quick changes between tambourine and other instruments. At times the player will need to hold the triangle beater while playing another instrument.)
To further round out the musical ensemble, consider adding more mallet keyboard parts and/or piano if the instruments and players are available:
• Part 1 — Vibraphone(s), piano
• Part 2 — Xylophone, additional marimba(s), piano
playing time: 3'00"
P a r t 1
g l o c k e n s p i e l
v i b r a p h o n e
P a r t 2
x y o p h o n e , u p p e r m a r i m b a
P a r t 3
o w e r m a r i m b a ( l o w A )
P a r t 4 ( o p t )
( 1 o r 2 p l a y e r s )
s u s p e n d e d c y m b a l ,
s n a r e d r u m , 2 t o m s , b a s s d r u m
P a r t 5 ( o p t )
( 1 o r 2 p l a y e r s )
t r i a n g l e , r a i n s t i c k ( o r
o c e a n d r u m ) m a r k t r e e
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