Master Technique Builders for Snare Drum
Master Technique Builders for Snare Drum

Author: Anthony J. Cirone

Publisher: Alfred Music

Published:

Total Pages: 52

ISBN-13: 9781457455575

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The actual daily practice routines used by professional symphonic and jazz drummers. The many variations of basic rudimental patterns make snare drum practicing a joy.

Modern School for Xylophone, Marimba, Vibraphone
Modern School for Xylophone, Marimba, Vibraphone

Author: Morris Goldenberg

Publisher: Alfred Music

Published: 1950

Total Pages: 136

ISBN-13: 9781457403101

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The "Goldenberg book" has been used by generations of orchestral mallet players to develop their skills. As well as studies and etudes, this book includes excerpts of major orchestral repertoire for keyboard percussion instruments. This edition, edited by Tony Cirone, includes phrasings that were inherent in the music but not specifically written out. Stickings are also addressed: the original stickings are in uppercase letters, and the added stickings are in lowercase. This book is the primary source for keyboard percussion players to learn technique and orchestral repertoire.

Biographical Essays on Twentieth-century Percussionists
Biographical Essays on Twentieth-century Percussionists

Author: Geary Larrick

Publisher: Lewiston, N.Y. : E. Mellen Press

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 348

ISBN-13:

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This biography in the discipline of percussion music research, contains a considerable amount of contemporary detail regarding the professional careers of many important percussionists who have held leading positions since the early-20th century. It also includes information in the areas of symphonic and jazz music, including major composers and timpanists. The text is written in an accessible style by a percussionist who is acquainted with a considerable number of the biographical subjects. Among subjects included are Vida Chenoweth, Lionel Hampton, William Ludwig, Jan Pustjens, and 76 others.

First Division Band Method, Part 1 for Bells
First Division Band Method, Part 1 for Bells

Author: Fred Weber

Publisher: Alfred Music

Published: 1999-11-16

Total Pages: 36

ISBN-13: 9781457450198

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This is an updated edition with a new four-color cover and updated text in various places in the book that mention correlated material. The music and songs are the same. The time-honored First Division Band Method retains the same pedagogically-sound sequence of learning that has taught over 12,000,000 students the fundamentals of learning to play a band instrument.

Four-Mallet Marimba Playing
Four-Mallet Marimba Playing

Author: Nancy Zeltsman

Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation

Published: 2003-11-01

Total Pages: 307

ISBN-13: 1476865434

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(Percussion). This book contains a lot of music, from musical etudes designed for beginning and intermediate players, to recital material appropriate for intermediate and advanced marimbists. It includes: examples taken from contemporary solo and chamber works, with commentary and performance tips; 50 studies to develop four-mallet technique in a musical way; 18 classic and contemporary solos for recitals, auditions or juries, written by Beethoven, Handel, Chopin, Debussy, Leonard Bernstein, Duke Ellington and others; and helpful guidelines for mallet selection, grip, strokes, tone production, rolls, stickings, phrasing and other important topics.