Artful Noise
Artful Noise

Author: Thomas Siwe

Publisher: University of Illinois Press

Published: 2020-07-27

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780252043130

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Twentieth-century composers created thousands of original works for solo percussion and percussion ensemble. Concise and ideal for the classroom, Artful Noise offers an essential and much-needed survey of this unique literature. Percussionist Thomas Siwe organizes and analyzes the groundbreaking musical literature that arose during the twentieth century. Focusing on innovations in style and the evolution of the percussion ensemble, Siwe offers a historical overview that connects the music to scoring techniques, new instrumentation and evolving technologies as well as world events. Discussions of representative pieces by seminal composers examines the resources a work requires, its construction, and how it relates to other styles that developed during the same period. In addition, Siwe details the form and purpose of many of the compositions while providing background information on noteworthy artists. Each chapter is supported with musical examples and concludes with a short list of related works specifically designed to steer musicians and instructors alike toward profitable explorations of composers, styles, and eras.

First 50 Solos You Should Play on Snare Drum
First 50 Solos You Should Play on Snare Drum

Author: Hal Leonard Corp.

Publisher: Hal Leonard

Published: 2021-10-01

Total Pages: 159

ISBN-13: 1705156134

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(Drum Book). If you've been taking snare drum lessons for a while, you're probably eager to start playing some songs. The First 50 Solos You Should Play on Snare Drum includes 50 snare etudes, orchestra excerpts and contest solos, highlighting a variety of skills, stickings and rudiments. The selections are presented in progressiver order, from simple to more challenging. Includes: Bolero * Echoing Sticks * Farfel's Gavotte * Grandfather's Clock * March for Two Drums * Rolling Accents * Soldier's March * Standing on the Shoulders of Giants * Tijuana Tap * William Tell Overture * and more.

How to Write for Percussion
How to Write for Percussion

Author: Samuel Z. Solomon

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 313

ISBN-13: 0199920346

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While composers and percussionists are working more closely than ever with one another, there are few resources that address this collaborative relationship in depth. Samuel Z. Solomon, himself a percussionist and teacher, offers How to Write for Percussion to fill this longstanding need. The first edition, self-published in 2004, provided musicians and music programs the world over with practical and indispensible information about issues of notation, concert production, and much more. This new edition expands the survey of behind-the-scenes processes-from instrument choice and notation to logistics, execution, and concert production-to uncover the tools a composer needs to comfortably create innovative and skilled percussion composition. Featuring an extensive Online Video Companion containing over nine hours of videos with demonstrations, performances, interviews, and analysis, How to Write for Percussion is sure to appeal to a wide swath of musicians and composers. Those familiar with the first edition will welcome the upgrade, and those who have yet to benefit from Solomon's perspective will find his insights illuminating. Book jacket.

Five MInute Drill
Five MInute Drill

Author: Duda Moura

Publisher:

Published: 2013-02-11

Total Pages: 48

ISBN-13: 9780976434412

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Tired of not knowing what to do with your percussionsists while wind players are doing their daily drills of long tones, lip slurs, and articulation studies? Percussionists are often spinning their wheels while waiting to get to the good stuff. Well, this is the good stuff! Now the percussion section can receive their daily dose of essentials and have fun while doing it! FIVE MINUTE DRILL is a series of fundamental exercises for both practice pad and mallet keyboard designed to give young players a guided regimen of the basics in just five minutes a day! Stylized play-along tracks on the included CD accompany the exercises in order to encourage group awareness and listening?not to mention FUN! INSIDE: ? Nearly 30 exercises for drumming and mallet keyboard technique ? Play-along CD containing over 90 individual tracks at a variety of speeds & styles ? Data tracking tools so you can record your progress ? At-a-glance techniques & terminology everyone can benefit from

15 Percussion Ensembles
15 Percussion Ensembles

Author:

Publisher: Alfred Music Publishing

Published: 1996-04

Total Pages: 36

ISBN-13: 9780769235226

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For four players. These easy, unique, and musical pieces for beginning percussion ensemble are written so that the student can see how the other players' parts blend with their own. 15 Percussion Ensembles can be effectively used on its own, or with most elementary percussion instruction books. Instrumentation: mallet percussion, snare drum/bass drum, and timpani.

Up Front
Up Front

Author: James Casella

Publisher:

Published: 2003-11-08

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 9780976434429

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Through the past twenty years or so, the "pit," or "front ensemble," has grown to be an integral part of the modern drum corps and marching band activities. This evolution has brought us into a new realm in the world of percussion education and performance, merging outdoor playing styles with indoor playing styles. "Up Front" explores the numerous details of a successful front ensemble. Topics included are: equipment, instrument ranges, transporting, instrument care, technique, exercises, teaching techniques, arranging, and much, much more. At a whopping 225 pages thick, this resource is sure to provide years of insight. It is meant to be an all-encompassing guide for pit members and educators of all experience levels. Jim Casella and Jim Ancona have instructed and arranged for some of drum corps' most musical and innovative percussion ensembles. Now they have combined their "pit knowledge" into one complete resource. "Up Front" explores every unique aspect of today's front ensemble, from technique and musicianship to arranging and instructing.