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==General Info==
Composer: Shinsaku Kusakawa <br/>
Arranger: Brian Zator  <br/>
Year: 2015 <br/>
Publisher: [[Tapspace]] <br/>
Level: Intermediate <br/>
Duration: 00:04:55 <br/>
Cost: $38.00 <br/>

==Instrumentation==
Player 1: [[Vibraphone]] <br/>
Player 2: [[Vibraphone]] <br/>
Player 3: [[Marimba]] <br/>
Player 4: [[Marimba]] <br/>

==Program Notes==
Yurikago is a Japanese folk song by composer Shinsaku Kusakawa. In her description of the piece, arranger Rika Fujii states, "It is a song my mother used to sing to me as a child." Although the original song was written in 4/4, this piece is treated in 3/4 to convey a swinging cradle and lullaby feeling. Originally arranged by Fujii as a duet for [[marimba]] and sanukite (keyboard instrument made out of sanukite stones found in the Kagawa Prefecture of Japan) for her and her mother, Brian Zator expanded the duo arrangement to a quartet using two marimbas and two vibraphones. This would be an effective intermediate level piece for a program wanting to highlight the warmth and tenderness attainable by mallet keyboard quartets.

==Recent Performance==
<embedvideo service="youtube"> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Izp82qV2v5w </embedvideo>

==Reference==

[[Category: Percussion Ensemble Works]]
[[Category: Percussion Quartet Works]]
[[Category: Mallet Ensemble Works]]
[[Category: Mallet Quartet Works]]