The reasons why I’m fascinated by the marimba and other percussion instrument are:

1. -pleasant sensation of the hitting action,
   

2. -attacking noise created by the mallet at the moment it strikes the instrument,
   

- rich vibration of resonance,

- joy of correspondence and resonance between the instruments,

- direct vibration from the player with the vigorous action of their body and spirit,

1. -great variety of the instruments and the form of playing.
   

Making the most of these enchantments is my basic attitude toward composing the “Concertino”.

1. 1.‘Dialogue’: marimba and other percussion sound independently with their own idioms.
   

2. 2.‘Arietta’: a fragment of a song which I composed in teens put in as a memory of my youth.
   

3. 3.‘Divertimento’: all the instruments gradually sound together and collaborate to express the one thing.
   

Tsuneya Tanabe

First performance:

22th November 1993 Hong Kong with Makoto Nakura: marimba

First Italian performance:

8th March 2003 Padova with Massimo Pastore: marimba