Xylophone - Repertoire (selection)
| Solo xylophone | |
|---|---|
| Thomas Pitfield | Xylophone sonata |
| Orchestral xylophone | |
|---|---|
| Camille Saint-Saëns | La Danse Macabre op. 40 (1875) Le Carnaval des Animaux (1886) |
| Gustav Mahler | 6th symphony (1906) |
| Richard Strauss | Salome (1905) |
| Igor Stravinsky | The Firebird (1910) Petrushka (1911) |
| Karl Amadeus Hartmann | Late symphonies |
| Leoš Janáček | Jenufa (1904) |
| Alban Berg | Three pieces for orchestra, op. 6 (1914) Wozzeck (1925) |
| Maurice Ravel | Ma mère l’Oye (1912) |
| Arnold Schoenberg | Gurrelieder (1913) |
| Giacomo Puccini | Turandot (1926) |
| Dmitri Shostakovich | Symphonies no. 5–8 |
| Béla Bartók | The wooden prince (1916) The miraculous mandarin (1919) Music for strings, percussion and celesta (1936) |
| William Walton | Belshazzar’s Feast (1931) |
| George Gershwin | Piano concerto in F (1925), An American in Paris (1928) Porgy and Bess (1935) |
| Aaron Copland | Appalachian Spring (1944) |
| Carl Orff | Antigonae (1949) |
| Olivier Messiaen | Turangalîla (1949) |
| Benjamin Britten | The Young Person’s guide to the Orchestra op. 34 (1946) |
| Leonard Bernstein | West Side Story (1957) |
| Witold Lutosławsky | Double concerto for oboe and harp (1980) Concerto for orchestra (1954) |
| Ensemble works with xylophone | |
|---|---|
| Béla Bartók | Sonata for two pianos and percussion (1938) |
| Igor Stravinsky | Les Noces (1923) |
| Pierre Boulez | Le marteau sans maître (1955) |
| Olivier Messiaen | Oiseaux éxotiques (1956) |
| Steve Reich | Drumming (1971) |
| William Cahn | In Ancient Temple Gardens |