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• Percussion History
  ...auna around the primitive societies. These instruments would comprise the Early Strata Instruments of the Paleolithic Era of the Stone Age. ...a hole and placing a platform over it. The most important contribution to percussion instruments of the Stone Age however, was the invention of the membranophon
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• Planchart, Alejandro
  ...ay, and in general he is a specialist on music of the late Middle Ages and early Renaissance. .... He taught at Yale for several years and founded the Cappella Cordina, an early music ensemble. The Cappella Cordina was composed mainly of undergraduates,
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• Timpani History
  ...e single-headed, closed body drum from Egypt, and adapted it to become the early naker (present in the fall of the Roman Empire), which was called the naqq� ===The Early Kettle Drum===
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• Hovhaness, Alan
  ...." Hovhaness' discovery of Armenian music had a direct effect upon his own works, which became more rhythmically and contrapuntally active and began to refl ...irituality. Among his voluminous catalogue, Hovhaness' colorful orchestral works have maintained the greatest popularity among audiences; notable examples i
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• Cowell, Henry
  ...anarchists, he was recognized early as an uncommonly gifted child. From an early age, he studied the violin, mastered the piano, and read extensively in man ...dernist compositional techniques from Europe and the United States. In the early 1920s he helped Cowell write the groundbreaking theoretical book, New Music
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• American Music Center
  ...composers works and input a title under this section ie: {{Spencer, Julie Works}} --> <!-- to edit the works list - Type in Search bar Template:Spencer, Julie Works for example -->
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• Garland, Peter
  ...) were written in the early 1970s at the same time as the first minimalist works. He is also an expert on American Indian music. He is the author of Gone Wa ...sic and culture. The Tzadik label released an album of solo piano works in early 2000 called the Days Run Away.<ref>[http://www.allmusic.com/artist/peter-ga
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• Multiple Percussion
  ...vely new field of percussion literature. The first major work for multiple percussion solo dates back only a little over 50 years to 1956 ([[John Cage]]'' [[27'1 .... As tonal harmony began to dissolve with twentieth century composers, the percussion was able to begin to be freed from the confines of a supportive role and be
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• Erb, Donald
  ...s the United States representative to UNESCO in 1970. Among his orchestral works are ten concertos, which have been premiered by such artists as Lynn Harrel ...wood Festivals and by the groundbreaking Group for Contemporary Music. His early experience as a jazz trumpeter inspired Erb's many compositions in that med
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• Krupa, Gene
  ...playing in mickey mouse bands would gravitate here afterhours and jam till early in the morning. Gene was able to hone and develop his style playing with ot ...man and Tommy Dorsey before re-forming his own band. Krupa's groups of the early 1940's were often criticized as being too commercial but Gene's big band wa
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• Sitsky, Larry
  ...studies in the United States, "combined with the Russian heritage from his early studies in China, [make] him a unique repository of piano techniques and tr == Works for Percussion ==
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• Smith Brindle, Reginald
  ==Early life== <!--== Books for Percussion ==
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• Roberts, Aldwyn
  ...a well-known blacksmith. There are two explanations commonly given for his early involvement with music. Some of his biographers trace his interests in musi ...as a musician in 1936, singing and entertaining the employees of the Water Works Department in Trinidad for 12 cents a day. Known during the beginnings of h
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• Becker, Bob
  ...of an extensive and eclectic repertoire of chamber and concerto works for percussion. ...at the Tokyo Music Joy Festival, which brought together NEXUS, the Korean percussion group Samul-Nori, drumset artist Steve Gadd, and Ghanaian master drummer Ab
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• Olsen, Poul Rovsing
  ...in Paris (1948-9), then worked in Copenhagen as a music critic. His early works showed the influences of Bartók, Stravinsky and Nielsen, joined in the 195 ...mother sang, and there were often private music soirees in his home. At an early age he was given ear training and piano lessons, and his obvious musical ta
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• Rouse, Christopher
  Born in Baltimore in 1949, Rouse developed an early interest in both classical and popular music. He graduated from Oberlin Con While the Rouse catalog includes a number of acclaimed chamber and ensemble works, the composer is best known for his mastery of orchestral writing. His musi
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• Beyer, Johanna
  ...Crawford, Charles Seeger, and Dane Rudhyar and in 1934 took Henry Cowell's percussion class at the New School for Social Research. Her musical life during these ...two movements of her "Three Movements for Percussion" in his northwestern percussion tours during the late 1930s. In 1936 her skills in multiple media came to t
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• Bergman, Erik
  Bergman's style ranged widely, from Romanticism in his early works (many of which he later prohibited from being performed) to modernism and p ...recognition. He is also known for his extensive choral output. His latest works include concertos for cello, violin and trumpet.<ref>http://en.wikipedia.or
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• Bailey, Elden "Buster"
  In 1949, Goodman urged Bailey to audition for a percussion opening in the New York Philharmonic. After auditioning for Leopold Stokows When Bailey joined the Philharmonic, the other members of the percussion section were Saul Goodman (timpanist), Walter Rosenberger (mallets) and Art
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• Brant, Henry
  ...musical detail for the listener. His catalogue comprises over 100 spatial works. ...quired Brant's complete archive of original manuscripts including over 300 works (1998). Brant received the honorary degree of Doctor of Fine Arts from Wesl
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• Rihm, Wolfgang
  German composer of stage, orchestral, chamber, choral, vocal, and piano works that have been performed throughout the world. ...so received encouragement from Wolfgang Fortner and Humphrey Searle in the early 1970s. He then studied composition with Karlheinz Stockhausen in Cologne in
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• Lepak, Alexander
  ...n addition to percussion, the now-retired Professor Emeritus of Theory and Percussion also taught ear training and conducted the Hartt Concert Jazz Band, which h ...uating cum laude in 1950 and immediately being appointed to the theory and percussion faculty.
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• Holten, Bo
  ...is every year, giving some 70 concerts, radio- and CD recordings including works with Symphony Orchestra and several BBC Proms. 1996 he founded the vocal en ...oppel and Emil Reesen, and also an entire CD devoted to Holten's own choir works. At the moment (2007) Holten is concentrating mainly on composing a new gra
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• Gilmour, Russell
  ...mar School, WA. Since graduating from the University of New England in the early 1980s, he has worked as a teacher, lecturer and arts administrator. <!--== Books for Percussion ==
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• Schuller, Gunther
  ...or his wide range of activity in both jazz and classical music and for his works embracing both jazz and advanced 12-tone elements. ...Symphony and Metropolitan Opera orchestras. His interest in jazz developed early when he became a fan of Duke Ellington; he made symphonic adaptations of se
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• Paliev, Dobri
  ...and loved individual… He started appearing in musical performances from an early age, playing the accordion, trumpet, drums, conducted the student’s orche “Prior to Paliev, we had no idea of the potential of percussion instruments and that one could achieve such virtuosity of them…”- obser
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• Hutcheson, Jere
  ..., Massachusetts. His earliest inspiration to become a composer came in his early teen years from his piano teacher, Harry Bolza. His works have been performed throughout the USA and Canada, as well as in Europe, As
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• Vees, Jack
  Citing Charles Ives and Captain Beefheart as his most prominent early influences, Jack Vees has a particularly distinctive and personal musical s ...k, Stephen Mosko, Louis Andriessen, Vinko Globokar, and Bernard Rands. His works have been performed throughout the world by numerous ensembles and soloists
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• LCM Grade 1 Orchestral Percussion
  Component 1 - Technical Works <br/> | 7 || Early Riser || [[Brian Stone]] || [[LCM Snare Drum Grades 1-2]] || [[Stainer & Be
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• Double Music
  Though rare in classical music, collaborative works are not at all unknown. For various reasons, composers sometimes agree to c ...e, who admittedly had trouble with harmonic concepts, had settled on using percussion sounds for his dance music, including the celebrated invention of the "prep
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• Horwood, Michael
  ...formed Convergence, an improvisation ensemble in which he played piano and percussion. In 2003, he retired from teaching and moved with his wife to Cowley, Alber ...1988), the electroacoustic work Motility (revised 1986) and the orchestral works Amusement Park Suite (1986), National Park Suite (1991) and Symphony No. 2,
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• Firth, Everett "Vic"
  ...cussion. By the time he was in high school, he had gravitated full-time to percussion, studying first with Robert Ramsdell and later with George Lawrence Stone, ...s hesitant to mention outstanding pupils, but he fondly recalls a class on percussion techniques for a Copland seminar that included three young conductors - Cla
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• Ptaszyńska, Marta
  ...as appeared on many new music festivals, and premiered numerous percussion works. ...Nadia Boulanger and electronic music at the ORTF Center in Paris, and then percussion at the Cleveland Institute of Music in the U.S., where she received an Arti
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• Cacioppo, George
  ...nd work didn't move in straight lines from one point to another. After his early compositions of the 1950s, each musical work has its own unique identity an ...vertheless he was soon back at his radio occupation and composition of new works.
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• Grey, Geoffrey
  ...his parents as he had shown a precocious interest in the violin at a very early age. Edinburgh, however, was markedly unfriendly to the English in those da ...ppointed Tour Musical Director of the NZ Opera Company. He had a number of early pieces broadcast by the NZBS and returned to England in 1960.
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• Hart, Paul
  ...usic, first as a junior exhibitor and later full-time. Having developed an early interest in jazz music he left college and started working as a bass player ...ons on the British national anthem. Paul has had three performances of his works at the BBC Proms including the jazz composition ‘Out Of Hamelin’ perfor
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• Silverman, Adam
  ...e Professor of Music Theory and Composition at West Chester University and works actively creating new compositions that are performed on concerts worldwide ...ny compositions for accompanied and unaccompanied solo cello, and original works and arrangements for cello choirs. He has composed three concertos since 20
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• Another Sunrise
  ...in Cuba, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Haiti and Veracruz (Mexico), in early son, merengue and rumba groups. == Works for Percussion by this Composer ==
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• Teaching Percussion
  Cook, Gary. <u>Teaching Percussion 3rd edition</u>. New York, Schirmer Books, 2005.<br /--> ...lf-contained book, students in music education programs, private study, or percussion pedagogy courses will develop a broad musical awareness and comprehensive t
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• Antheil, George
  ..., Salvador Dali, Ernest Hemingway, Eric Satie, and Igor Stravinsky. In the early '20s, he lived at the literal center of English-language culture in Europe: ...over 300 musical works in all major genres, including symphonies, chamber works, film music, and operas. He was extremely outspoken and articulate, and wro
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• Kraft, William
  ...ctivities for the composer’s Los Angeles performances and recordings. As a percussion soloist, he performed in the American premieres of Stockhausen’s Zyklus a ...ssioned by the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, and the Concerto for Four Percussion Soloists for Symphonic Wind Ensemble, premiered and recorded by the New Eng
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• Zaldumbide, Fidel
  ...repertoire for Symphonic Percussion inside and outside Ecuador. At "Italy Percussion Competition" in Pescara / Italy, Fidel won second place with his vibraphone ...l background, aiming to spread and enrich the repertoire of Latin American percussion around the world. He is currently studying for a Master degree in the "Hoch
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• Time for Marimba
  ...termined to avoid the use of tremolo except in very limited cases. From an early age Miki loved the special feeling of Indonesian Gamelan ensemble music. Th From an early age Miki loved the special feeling of Indonesian Gamelan ensemble music. Th
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• Ardizzoia, Andrew
  ...ly age. His catalog of orchestral, band, choral, chamber, and solo vocal works have been performed on four continents by a wide variety of soloists and en ...at many other colleges, festivals, and museums. Recitals dedicated to his works have taken place in California and Arizona, and his music has been part of
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• Benson, Warren
  ...c for wind ensemble and his finely wrought song cycles. With such striking works as The Leaves Are Falling (1964), The Solitary Dancer (1966), The Passing B ...been performed in more than 50 countries throughout the world and some 30 works have been recorded.
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• BUBBLEGUM
  ...ture, and groove of those early rock and roll hits released by Motown in a percussion ensemble setting. The A section features the harmonic progression from "Sug == Works for Percussion by this Composer ==
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• Bergamo, John
  ...w Jersey, John Bergamo has never lost his desire to expand his interest in percussion. In 1959 John attended the Lenox School of Jazz in Lenox Mass. next door to ...onal to non-European cultures, and since 1970, has been coordinator of the percussion program at California Institute of the Arts. This breadth of background has
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• Richards, Emil
  "My roots are from Hamp," Richards explains. "I got all my early training from copying and playing along with Hamp's records, because he was ...nd jingles, and who can be depended upon to come up with exactly the right percussion sound from his extensive collection of instruments. But his initial fame ca
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• Ruders, Poul
  Ruders has created a large body of music ranging from opera and orchestral works through chamber, vocal and solo music in a variety of styles, from the Viva ...(2000) for Birmingham Contemporary Music Group. Ruders has written several works for the American guitarist and promoter of new music David Starobin: Psalmo
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• Cage, John
  ...ercussion ensembles to perform his compositions. He also experimented with works for dance, and his subsequent collaborations with the choreographer and dan ...n music and its concepts of meaningful sound. The concert he gave with his percussion ensemble at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City in 1943 marked the fi
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• Rodriguez, Robert Xavier
  ...c for the theater — but he has been drawn most strongly in recent years to works for the stage, including music for children. Rodríguez received his early musical education in San Antonio (b. 1946) and in Austin (UT), Los Angeles
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• Fine, Elliot
  ...5 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, began drumming at the age of 11 and spent his early years playing jazz and backing some of the idiom's greats. His career ran t ...his son on several CD's including, Surges/Suspensions, Comme Toujours, and Percussion Music: Improvised - Milo Fine/Davu Seru/Elliot Fine on Shihshihwuai Records
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• Rack, John
  ...ing experience ranges from playing with the UNCW Faculty Brass Quintet and Early Music Consort, to being soloist with the Wilmington Symphony Orchestra and ...on lessons, percussion methods class, percussion pedagogy, and directs the percussion ensemble, which includes at times a Central American marimba ensemble and G
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• Franke, Bernd
  ...first meeting with Hans Werner Henze, who was to become his mentor in the early 90s, came at the world premiere of the West-Eastern German Songbook at the ...the beginning of Franke’s association with C.F. Peters and since then his works have been exclusively published by the company. Franke became a member of t
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• Ramovs, Primoz
  ...Slovenian composers. His early works are neoclassical in style, but later works employ serialism and other modernist techniques. He wrote almost exclusivel <!--== Books for Percussion ==
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• Reina, Rafael
  ...ring Marco Berriel and Joaquin Cortes for the 1992 Expo in Seville. At an early age he received various composition awards, including the Best Original Sco ...urope, the US, Taiwan and India. Some of Reina’s large oeuvre of music for percussion is available from Edition Svitzer and some of his pieces for recorder are a
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• A table of noises
  [[Multiple Percussion]]<br> A percussion concerto in six movements, with five brief instrumental 'ghosts' interspers
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• Price, Paul
  ...rese and contact with visiting artist Henry Cowell aroused his interest in percussion ensemble music. Upon receiving his diploma in 1942, he spent four years in ...and among his own students. Price's influential publishing firm, Music for Percussion, was founded during this time.
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• Raskatov, Alexander
  ...rs to his dialogue with Slawonic folk music like he learned to know in his early years with the Don-Cossacks. He found reminders of a Russian "Pro-Culture" ...Osterfestspiele, just to name a few. Raskatov received commissions for new works by the most renowned artists of the world such as Gidon Kremer, Sabine Meye
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• Ouderits, Leo
  ...still finds very memorable. Leo was also the artistic director of The Mol Percussion Orchestra, an ensemble for which he composed several pieces. ...estival and the Royal Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Pukkelpop 2019,…). Pulse Percussion Trio was awarded several prizes including the first prize at the Tornea Int
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• Rigoli, Carl
  ...h in New York. At the Waldorf Astoria he performed both with the vibes and percussion for such super stars as Frank Sinatra, Julie London, Johnny Mathis, Carol L <!--== Books for Percussion ==
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• Briggs, Matthew
  ..., Massachusetts where he began playing the drum set at the age of 10. His early musical influences included jazz education in the public school system as w ...versity where his mentor was Swedish composer Sven-David Sandström and his percussion teacher was Anthony Cirone. Since 2006 Matthew has called the Pacific Nor
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• Chatman, Stephen
  ...lark, Arsis, and Frederick Harris Music Celebration Series. His orchestral works, commissioned by the Vancouver, Toronto, Edmonton, Windsor, and Madison sym ...became British Columbia’s first ‘composer in residence’, composing several works for Vancouver’s Music in the Morning concert series, June Goldsmith, dire
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• Guerguerian, Paul "River"
  ...r Guerguerian has been inspiring audiences with his ecstatic and versatile percussion for over 30 ...-Egyptian extraction, River’s successful and prolific career started at an early
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• Leeuw, Ton de
  ...to complete operas, but it is the vocal and, more specifically, the choral works which reveal most clearly what he was striving to obtain: a conjunction of ...Rosemary Hardy with the Ensemble InterContemporain. Ton de Leeuw died too early, and although we may find some comfort in the knowledge that he accomplishe
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• Fetler, Paul
  ...Hindemith, Sergiu Celibidache and Boris Blacher. Having composed over 150 works in various media his music has been performed by leading orchestras, solois <!--== Books for Percussion ==
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• Combs, F. Michael
  ...KSO Chamber Orchestra, performed with the percussion section in two major percussion concertos, and was featured on numerous occasions during his lengthy career ...te and UT has designated him as “Professor Emeritus of Music.” His book on percussion is a standard text in many colleges and several publishing companies carry
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• Fitkin, Graham
  Graham Fitkin is a UK composer who works with acoustic and electronic instruments, collaborates with dance, film and ...iverpool Philharmonic Orchestra producing five new works. Since then many works have been commissioned and composed for orchestra, performances include tho
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• Thomas, Augusta Read
  ...opovich, Boulez, Eschenbach, Salonen, Maazel, Ozawa, and Knussen, she rose early to the top of her profession. ...ring her residency, Thomas not only premiered nine commissioned orchestral works, but was also central in establishing the thriving MusicNOW series, through
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• Feldman, Morton
  In early 1950 Feldman went to hear the New York Philharmonic give a performance of A ...t, rarely shorter than half an hour in length and often much longer. These works include Violin and String Quartet (1985, around 2 hours), For Philip Guston
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• Helweg, Kim
  ...c of pictures. A "Tabular Rasa" as it might be and at the same time a very early musical turning point. From this period the works Interference in the version for the Royal Danish Brass, Variations on [[Chi
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• Roosendael, Jan Rokus van
  ...s characterized by a religious vein, such as Psalm 139 which falls back on early polyphonic techniques. This work was composed for the Nederlands Kamerkoor. <!--== Books for Percussion ==
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• Stockhausen, Karlheinz
  ...68, 117) but also controversial (Power 1990, 30) composers of the 20th and early 21st centuries. Another critic calls him "one of the great visionaries of 2 ...thout live performers—they range from miniatures for musical boxes through works for solo instruments, songs, chamber music, choral and orchestral music, to
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• Gubaidulina, Sofia
  ...n ("Easter according to John"), commissioned by Hannover Rundfunk. The two works together form a "diptych" on the death and resurrection of Christ, her larg == Works for Percussion ==
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• Fine, Vivian
  ...usic, she wrote in every genre, including large-scale symphonic and choral works. In addition to numerous articles and several dissertations, two books have ...est-known performer of contemporary piano music in New York. She premiered works of Ives, Copland, Brant, Cowell, Rudhyar, and others, and studied piano wit
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• Pastor, Joseph
  ...nstructor of music at Jefferson College in Hillsoboro MO, where he teaches Percussion Ensemble, Music Appreciation, and Private Applied Lessons, and has taught J ...percussion, chamber ensemble, orchestra, band, and jazz ensembles and his works have been performed at Washington University, University of Kentucky, Sam F
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• Steiger, Rand
  ...and a timbre that occurs when tones are precisely tuned. Some examples of works deploying these techniques include: Ecosphere, developed during residencies ...ducted many world, New York and California premier performances, including works of Muhal Richard Abrams, Louis Andriessen, Milton Babbitt, Pierre Boulez, H
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• Rechberger, Herman
  ...ferent historical eras and geographical regions. His special interests are early music and the Orient, but he also feels a strong pull towards the musical e ...ncertos. The orchestral Venezia (1985) is considered to be one of his main works. He has also written three symphonies (2001, 2002 and 2005) as well as a nu
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• Ross, Walter
  ...of engineering and astronomy, he switched to music, receiving much of his early compositional training under Robert Beadell. While working on his doctoral ...musicians enjoy performing and audiences enjoy hearing. Many of his recent works are representative of his current interest in neo-modal, pandiatonic compos
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• Shawver, Alex
  ...there has hardly been a silent moment from the very beginning of his life. Early interest in jazz and Latin rock and a traditional Texas high school band ex ...historic keyboard repertoire and the constant exposure to new ideas in the percussion paradigm. He’s obsessed with rhythm and strives to utilize unique timbres
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• Samuels, Dave
  ...that he met David Friedman and together they altered the course of mallet percussion history. ...(steel pan), Samuels also included Mark Walker (drums), Pernell Saturnino (percussion), Oscar Stagnaro (bass), and Dario Eskenazi (piano). [These same musicians
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• Bacon, John Jr.
  ...mbonist Roswell Rudd, Bobby Previte's Voodoo Orchestra West, the Maelström Percussion Ensemble, and many others. His compositions have been performed by the Amhe ...Slee and I tried to help him as best I could. I remember performing in the percussion section with the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra with Charles Wourinen condu
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• Sonic Adventures
  ...orks challenging and discover useful teaching points in the less difficult works for their pedagogical classes and/or younger, less experienced students. ...hnical issues such as snare drum technique, 4-mallet technique on keyboard percussion instruments, [[timpani]] tuning/pedaling, and instrument-specific technique
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• Kulenty-Brewaeys, Hanna
  ...numerous commissions and scholar-ships. Kulenty has composed 2 opera’s, 12 works for large orchestra and more than 60 other pieces. In 1990 she was for one In her early works Kulenty had some sort of emotional structure in mind, an arc design as a wa
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• The Alabados Song (Percussion Ens. Ver.)
  Player VII: Percussion I - [[Wooden Wind Chimes]], 3 Suspended Cymbals, 2 [[Tam Tam]]s, [[Whip]], Player VIII: Percussion II - Glass tuned to "C#", [[Bass Drum]], [[Bongos]], Suspended Cymbal, Whip
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• Viken, Terje
  Ever since my early teenage years I dreamt of playing in a large symphony orchestra. In 1991 I <!--== Books for Percussion ==
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• Downs, Diane
  ...Louisville Leopard Percussionists. After playing music at home from a very early age, she participated in band throughout school. After taking a year off t ...n ensemble in Fresno, CA and serves as a consultant to numerous elementary percussion ensemble programs around the U.S.
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• Feld, Jindřich
  ...he studied violin and viola with his father, he began studying composition early, studying at the Prague Conservatory and then graduating from the Academy o <!--== Books for Percussion ==
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• Fox, Frederick A.
  ...ior high school when he began playing the saxophone. By his late teens and early 20s, it began to gain strength when he toured the Midwest as part of big ba <!--== Books for Percussion ==
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• Chappell, Robert
  ...er, an accomplished pianist. Robert's formal education includes degrees in percussion performance from the Ohio State University and the University of North Texa ...6. The duo’s latest CD, Open Window, was released in 2011 and includes new works for steelpan in chamber music settings.
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• Siegel, Wayne
  Wayne Siegel was born in Los Angeles in 1953. Most important in the way of early musical influence was the American folk music tradition (Pete Seeger, Woody == Works for Percussion ==
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• Dahl, Ingolf
  ...iano under Edith Weiss-Mann, a harpsichordist, pianist, and a proponent of early music. Dahl studied with Philipp Jarnach at the Hochschule für Musik Köln ...a two-piano version of his Danses concertantes and program notes for other works. In 1947, with Joseph Szigeti he produced a reconstruction of Bach's Violin
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• Stevens, Leigh Howard
  ...sance music and the Preludes and Fugues of J. S. Bach, to original marimba works written by contemporary composers expressly for him. Much of this unaccompa ...f contrasting roll types; from the early polyphonic Helble Preludes to the works of John Serry, David Maslanka and Joseph Schwantner to his own original com
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• Ouderits, Tom
  ...her when he started his musical training at the Academy in Mol at quite an early age. His teacher was Chris Lembrechts, now his colleague, as he became a te ...positions using acoustic instruments and synthesizers. Later on he studied percussion and chamber music at the Lemmens Institute in Leuven.
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• Roggenkamp, Wolfgang
  Already in these early years, Wolfgang has many engagements, goes on tour and plays records. Many <!--== Books for Percussion ==
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• Lamb, Jane
  ...have started a project rearranging her ensembles for easy to intermediate percussion ensembles. You can double up on any of the mallet parts and have a large e ...hool District, Texas Association for the Education of the Young Child, and Early Childhood Winter Conference. Jane has four Orff publications with Shawnee P
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• Percussion Quartet (Elfman)
  ...ot the call from Philip Glass inquiring about my interest in writing a new percussion quartet to play alongside his own Perpetulum (in the Days and Nights Festiv Thus began the exciting process of writing my first percussion quartet. One initial challenge was trying to write for a collective group o
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• Stark, Bruce
  ...Persichetti. Since moving to Tokyo in 1989 he has produced a collection of works which reveal a unique and compelling musical voice, drawing from a multipli ...by Colorado-based vocal group Ars Nova, the Tokyo Clarinet Ensemble, Japan Percussion Center and numerous performers.
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• Hochrainer, Richard
  ...ani and has written numerous articles. Although he designed and built many percussion instruments, he is especially noted for his redesign of the Viennese timpan == Works for Percussion ==
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• Olofsson, Kent
  ...ween 1984 and 1991 - the guitar has taken on a central role in many of his works. A notable example is the grandiose Il Liuto d'Orfeo for guitar and tape, a ...ggens, with which he is also the guitarist) - and has composed music drama works, music for art exhibitions, and music for dance performances with choreogra
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