THE ORCHESTRA: A USER'S MANUAL

Wooden bars suspended over resonators.

Panshots:
the marimba
the keyboard
the low resonators
the mid resonators
the high resonators

Characteristics:
range of marimbas
the low register
middle and upper registers

Use soft mallets on marimba. Do NOT use xylophone beaters.
marimba mallets
rolls
using multiple sticks
different sticks in different registers

the size of the instrument
notating marimba music

low note - hard mallet
low note - soft mallet
mid range note - hard mallet
mid range note - soft mallet
top note
glissando up
glissando down
a passage with hard beaters in the top register
a passage with middle beaters in the middle register
a passage with soft beaters in the lower register

A soprano marimba, with harder wooden bars suspended over resonators.

a panshot along the xylophone
history of the xylophone
range of the xylophone
character of the xylophone

various mallets

notating xylophone music

Saint-Saëns Le Carnival des Animaux ('Fossiles')
The same tune unaccompanied:
low register
mid register
high register

arpeggio, loud, ascending
arpeggio, loud, descending
arpeggio, quiet, ascending
arpeggio, quiet, descending

'white' note glissando up
'white' note glissando down
'black' note glissando down
'black' note glissando up (and over!)

a roll