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Casey MorarityCasey Morarity received her bachelor’s degree in music education at Ohio University and is currently pursuing her master's degree in percussion performance and arts administration. She has performed with the American Pops Orchestra, the Ohio Valley Symphony, and at the EDETA Arts Festival in Valencia, Spain. After performing Dave Crider’s, On the Level, she learned that he had additional unpublished pieces for Vibraphone and Electronics, and she wanted to help make that music available for performance. Casey’s role involved transcribing Dave Crider’s recorded performances and preparing the initial music notation for five new Music for Vibraphone and Electronics pieces published by Ohio Percussion in 2025.
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List of Works (Click title to link to details about the work)
Music for Vibraphone and Electronics Series
The Music for Vibraphone and Electronics series is a collection of intermediate/advanced level recital pieces for solo 4-mallet vibraphone and audio accompaniment (backing-track). Composer/performer, Dave Crider, describes the style of these works as Theme and Improvisation – classically inspired thematic material alongside jazz-style improvised solos. Influenced by the techniques of modern classical marimba repertoire and the harmonic language of modal jazz, the textures range from lyrical, spacious, and flowing, to angular and densely polyrhythmic. The electronic accompaniment tracks were crafted using virtual emulations and samples of vintage keyboards, programmed through midi sequencers, and manipulated with delay modules. Each meticulously prepared score includes detailed performance notes; cues for the electronics track; optional written melodies for those who don’t improvise, and chord symbols for those who do; and a separate lead-sheet for the improv sections with basic scale suggestions for developing improvisers.
Celestial (2025)
Music for Vibraphone and Electronics
Solo Vibraphone with electronic accompaniment track
Casey Morarity, editor
2:45 minutes
Emerald (2025)
Music for Vibraphone and Electronics
Solo Vibraphone with electronic accompaniment track
Casey Morarity, editor
3 minutes
Energy (2025)
Music for Vibraphone and Electronics
Solo Vibraphone with electronic accompaniment track
Casey Morarity, editor
2:45
Glass Island (2025)
Music for Vibraphone and Electronics
Solo Vibraphone with electronic accompaniment track
Casey Morarity, editor
4 minutes
That Will Endure (2025)
Music for Vibraphone and Electronics
Solo Vibraphone with electronic accompaniment track
Casey Morarity, editor
3 minutes
The Music for Vibraphone and Electronics series is a collection of intermediate/advanced level recital pieces for solo 4-mallet vibraphone and audio accompaniment (backing-track). Composer/performer, Dave Crider, describes the style of these works as Theme and Improvisation – classically inspired thematic material alongside jazz-style improvised solos. Influenced by the techniques of modern classical marimba repertoire and the harmonic language of modal jazz, the textures range from lyrical, spacious, and flowing, to angular and densely polyrhythmic. The electronic accompaniment tracks were crafted using virtual emulations and samples of vintage keyboards, programmed through midi sequencers, and manipulated with delay modules. Each meticulously prepared score includes detailed performance notes; cues for the electronics track; optional written melodies for those who don’t improvise, and chord symbols for those who do; and a separate lead-sheet for the improv sections with basic scale suggestions for developing improvisers.
Celestial (2025)
Music for Vibraphone and Electronics
Solo Vibraphone with electronic accompaniment track
Casey Morarity, editor
2:45 minutes
Emerald (2025)
Music for Vibraphone and Electronics
Solo Vibraphone with electronic accompaniment track
Casey Morarity, editor
3 minutes
Energy (2025)
Music for Vibraphone and Electronics
Solo Vibraphone with electronic accompaniment track
Casey Morarity, editor
2:45
Glass Island (2025)
Music for Vibraphone and Electronics
Solo Vibraphone with electronic accompaniment track
Casey Morarity, editor
4 minutes
That Will Endure (2025)
Music for Vibraphone and Electronics
Solo Vibraphone with electronic accompaniment track
Casey Morarity, editor
3 minutes