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Xylorimba

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The xylorimba (sometimes referred to as xylo-marimba or marimba-xylophone) is a pitched percussion instrument corresponding to a xylophone with an extended range (and not to a combination of a xylophone with a marimba, as the name might suggest). [1]

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Alban Berg

Alban Maria Johannes Berg (February 9, 1885 – December 24, 1935) was an Austrian composer of the Second Viennese School.

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Éclairs sur l'au-delà...

Éclairs sur l’Au-Delà … (Lightning Over the Beyond …) is an epic orchestral work by Olivier Messiaen, written in 1988–91, his last completed composition.

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Des Canyons aux étoiles...

Des canyons aux étoiles... (From the canyons to the stars...) is a large twelve-movement orchestral work by the French composer Olivier Messiaen.

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Erik Bergman

Erik Valdemar Bergman (24 November 1911, in Nykarleby – 24 April 2006, in Helsinki) was an influential composer of classical music from Finland.

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Gruppen

Gruppen (Groups) for three orchestras (1955–57) is amongst the best-known compositions of German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen, and is Work Number 6 in the composer's catalog of works.

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Heinz Karl Gruber

Heinz Karl 'Nali' Gruber (born 3 January 1943), who styles himself HK Gruber professionally, is an Austrian composer, conductor, bass player and singer.

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Helmut Lachenmann

Helmut Friedrich Lachenmann (born 27 November 1935 in Stuttgart) is a German composer associated with "musique concrète instrumentale".

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Karlheinz Stockhausen

Karlheinz Stockhausen (22 August 1928 – 5 December 2007) was a German composer, widely acknowledged by critics as one of the most important but also controversial composers of the 20th and early 21st centuries.

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La Transfiguration de Notre Seigneur Jésus-Christ

La Transfiguration de Notre Seigneur Jésus-Christ ("The Transfiguration of Our Lord Jesus Christ") is a work written between 1965 and 1969 by Olivier Messiaen.

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Le Marteau sans maître

Le Marteau sans maître (The Hammer without a Master) is a composition by French composer Pierre Boulez.

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Marimba

The marimba is a percussion instrument consisting of a set of wooden bars struck with mallets called knobs to produce musical tones.

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Marimbaphone

The marimbaphone is an obsolete tuned percussion instrument, developed by the J.C. Deagan Company of Chicago, Illinois, U.S. in the early 20th century.

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Musical instrument

A musical instrument is an instrument created or adapted to make musical sounds.

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Musical keyboard

A musical keyboard is the set of adjacent depressible levers or keys on a musical instrument.

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Olivier Messiaen

Olivier Eugène Prosper Charles Messiaen (December 10, 1908 – April 27, 1992) was a French composer, organist, and ornithologist, one of the major composers of the 20th century.

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Overtone

An overtone is any frequency greater than the fundamental frequency of a sound.

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Percussion instrument

A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater (including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles); struck, scraped or rubbed by hand; or struck against another similar instrument.

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Pierre Boulez

Pierre Louis Joseph Boulez CBE (26 March 1925 – 5 January 2016) was a French composer, conductor, writer and founder of institutions.

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Pli selon pli

Pli selon pli (Fold by fold) is a piece of classical music by the French composer Pierre Boulez.

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Resonator

A resonator is a device or system that exhibits resonance or resonant behavior, that is, it naturally oscillates at some frequencies, called its resonant frequencies, with greater amplitude than at others.

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Saint François d'Assise

Saint François d'Assise is an opera in three acts and eight scenes by French composer and librettist Olivier Messiaen, written from 1975 to 1983.

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The Flood (Stravinsky)

The Flood: A musical play (1962) is a short biblical drama by Igor Stravinsky on the allegory of Noah, originally written as a work for television.

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Vaudeville

Vaudeville is a theatrical genre of variety entertainment.

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William Bolcom

William Elden Bolcom (born May 26, 1938) is an American composer and pianist.

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Xylophone

The xylophone (from the Greek words ξύλον—xylon, "wood" + φωνή—phōnē, "sound, voice", meaning "wooden sound") is a musical instrument in the percussion family that consists of wooden bars struck by mallets.

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Marimba-xylophone, Xylo-marimba.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xylorimba

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