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David Wise is a British video game music composer and musician. He was a composer at Rare from 1985 to 2009, and he was the company's sole musician up until 1994. He has gained a dedicated following for his work on various games, particularly Nintendo's Donkey Kong Country series.
The Wii version of Donkey Kong Country Returns was released for download on Wii U via Nintendo eShop. Donkey Kong Country Returns was made available on Nintendo eShop on January 21, 2015, in Japan, [63] January 22 in Europe, [64] and January 23 in Australia and New Zealand. [65]
The Library of Congress: Historic American Sheet Music: 1850–1920: American: 3,042 19th and early 20th-century American sheet music drawn from the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library at Duke University. The Library of Congress: The Library of Congress: Music for the Nation: American Sheet Music 1870–1885: 19th-century ...
Wise initially worked as a freelancer and assumed his music would be replaced by a Japanese composer because of the importance of Donkey Kong to Nintendo. Rare asked Wise to record three jungle demo melodies, which were merged to become the "DK Island Swing", the first level's track. Wise was subsequently offered the job to produce the final score.
The Werner Icking Music Archive (often abbreviated WIMA) is a web archive of liberally licensed sheet music of public domain music. The scores are electronically typeset by volunteers and distributed in PDF, often accompanied by their typesetting files. WIMA continues the defunct GMD Music Archive and is named after its founder, the late Werner ...
The Classical Marimba League is dedicated to the marimba, a keyboard percussion instrument. The Classical Marimba League (CML) is an international organization dedicated to the advancement of the marimba. The musical repertoire for the marimba in the classical concert venue is quite young and sparse.
Particularly notable classical performers on the marimba include: This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .
Mitchell Thomas Peters (August 17, 1935 – October 28, 2017) was a principal timpanist and percussionist with the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra. He composed well-known pieces for the marimba such as "Yellow After the Rain" and "Sea Refractions"; it is said that these works were composed because Peters felt that there was a lack of musically interesting material that would introduce his ...