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William Moersch
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The Creston Concertino was written in 1939/40, and Vida Chenowith did not give her debut recital until 1956.
5-octave literature began when Yamaha designed a .5 extension for Keiko Abe's YM-5000 in the late 1970's or early 1980's. She began improvising lower register versions of the Ifukube: Lauda Concertata, which I remember seeing, possibly as early as 1976. Miki's Marimba Spiritual (1984) was perhaps the first published piece to mention the 5.0 range.
Of my own commissioning projects, the 1984 NEA Consortium Commissioning Grant with Leigh Stevens and Gordon Stout established both USA 4.5 repertoire - Druckman's Reflections and Reynolds's Autumn Island (1986) - and 4.6 repertoire - Schwantner's Velocities (1990). The 1991 MTC Consortium Commissioning grant with Robert Van Sice and Nancy Zeltsman established USA 5.0 repertoire - Mackey's See Ya Thursday, O'Brien's Rhyme and Reason, and Schuller's Marimbology (1993).
I believe Percy Granger was influenced by gamelon music, as with Debussy and others, dating to a Paris exhibition in the 1890's.
WM
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