Music for and with percussion
Shona Dream Dance
SM-000239301
- Composer
- Mark Duggan
- Publisher
- Mark Duggan
- Genre
- Classical
- Instrumentation
- Marimba
- Scored for
- Solo
- Type of score
- For a single performer
- Duration
- 7'9"
- Difficulty
- Advanced
- Year of composition
- 1987
Description
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.