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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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• Kohs, Ellis
  ...and Samuel C. Kohs, Kohs grew up in San Francisco, where he undertook his early musical studies at the San Francisco Conservatory. In 1928 his family moved ...7), a Violin Concerto (1980) and two Symphonies (1950 and 1957). His vocal works included settings of Navajo songs and "The Lord Ascendant," based on "The E
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• Abbott, Alain
  ...Abbott, accompanied by pianist Jacqueline Medinger, was discovered in the works of Bach ( Sinfonie the second partita , Toccata and Fugue in D minor Fantas Born in 1938, Alain Abbott took an early interest in the accordion and quickly became one of the few virtuosos. His
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• Kupferman, Meyer
  ...rld War I. Elias settled in the United States with his sister Clara in the early 20's. He joined the baker's union while living in New York City and changed ...ht theory and music for film and wrote many experimental theatre and dance works for performing arts students at Sarah Lawrence.
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• Roberts, Myron
  Raised in a musical family, Mr. Roberts developed an early passion for piano and organ. His first music teacher was his Aunt Josephine ...l music and pieces for organ and other instruments. Among his 22 published works are "Homage to Perotin" (1956), "Pastorale and Aviary" (1969) and "Fanfare
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• Manoury, Philippe
  ...im to Max Deutsch, who was a student of Arnold Schoenberg in Vienna in the early twentieth century. He studied at the Ecole Normale de Musique in Paris, whe ...tic instruments and new technologies related to computer music. From these works will be born a cycle of interactive pieces for different instruments: Sonv
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• Tenney, James
  ...luenced the development of his music in the 1960s. In 1961 he composed the early plunderphonic composition Collage No.1 (Blue Suede) (for tape) by sampling ...rest in harmonic perception and unconventional tuning systems. Significant works include Clang (1972) for orchestra, Quintext (1972) for string quintet, Spe
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• Mamangakis, Nikos
  ...“Constructions” for flute and percussion (1960), “Combinations” (1961) for percussion and orchestra, “Lingual symbols” (1961-62) for soprano, bass and large ...emble” is similar to the above and has been performed repeatedly, In those early years, his orchestral compositions climaxed with “Anarchy” concerts, a
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• Holland, John
  ...ee decades that introduce artists to leading-edge ideas in science. In the early 1980's Holland co-founded Nature and Inquiry, an artists group that continu == Works for Percussion ==
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• Concerto for Percussion and Orchestra (Guinivan)
  Percussion (4 Player): [[Timpani]] & [[Crotales]] & [[Xylophone]] & [[Vibraphone]] & [ ...estra is a single-movement work full of energy and excitement in which the percussion takes center stage and is driven by aggressively colorful orchestration.
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• MTB Percussion Pre-Grade Book
  '''Difficulty''': Early Elementary<br /--> 15 recital pieces for [[Timpani]], [[Snare Drum]], [[Mallet Percussion]] and [[Drum Kit]] for Both Grades<br /-->
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• Morello, Joe
  A brilliant drummer, Joe Morello played early on with Phil Woods and Sal Salvador. He had short stints during 1952-1953 w == Books for Percussion ==
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• Saariaho, Kaija
  ...stra and tape. And even the titles of her next, linked, pair of orchestral works, ...pitched noise – all features found in one of her most frequently performed works, Graal théâtre for violin
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• Garibaldi, David
  ...coming at a tumultuous time of change and upheaval in the Bay Area in the early Seventies. Because that’s the environment we were born into, the time we == Books for Percussion ==
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• Hartl, Bruno
  ...r Percussion and Orchestra. Beyond these, he has also made very successful percussion arrangements of Stravinsky’s “Le sacre du printemps” and Khatchaturia == Works for Percussion ==
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• Brettingham-Smith, Jolyon
  ...and six children in the Spandau district of Berlin. He was famous for his early rising, beginning his day at 3.00 and reckoning the hours between then and ...s works for orchestra and musical theatre, as well as chamber music, vocal works, film music, and the musical settings for radio plays.
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• Albright, William
  ...ctivities, he pursued an active career as an organist and commissioned new works for this instrument from other contemporary composers to play on his concer ...ers, composers, and educators are able to do in a full career. He received early musical training between 1959 and 1962 at the Juilliard Preparatory Departm
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• Burwasser, Daniel
  ...ive-string electric violist Martha Mooke for VOILA! which was premiered in early 2004. His orchestral music has been performed and recorded on the MMC label == Works for Percussion ==
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• Holmboe, Vagn
  ...chestra, as well as much choral and other music, in addition to some early works that never received opus numbers. His last work, the twenty-first string qu ...ks between the years 1950 and 1970 (similar to Jean Sibelius). His earlier works show the influence of East European composers such as Béla Bartók; his wo
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• Carter, Elliott
  ...years, with more than 150 pieces, ranging from chamber music to orchestral works to opera, often marked with a sense of wit and humor. He received numerous ...oraries Copland, Hindemith, and Stravinsky. After the Second World War, in works such as his Cello Sonata (1948) and String Quartet No. 1 (1950-51) he began
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• From Trio to Octett
  Chamber music for percussion in music schools 7. Three early dances (seven players) <br/>
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• Goeyvaerts, Karel
  ...n find more suitable equipment, in July 1953 (Toop 1979). One of the first works produced there was Goeyvaerts's Nr. 5 with Pure Tones, which Stockhausen he ...static music" (Delaere, Beirens, and Staples 2004, 32–33). Analyses of his early serial compositions (especially the electronic Nr. 4, met dode tonen [with
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• Dorff, Daniel
  Daniel Dorff was born in New Rochelle, NY in 1956; acclaim came early with First Prize in the Aspen Music Festival's annual composers' competitio == Works for Percussion ==
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• Simons, Netty
  ...eacher. She was born in New York City on October 26, 1913 and received her early musical training from the Third Street Music School where she taught from 1 == Works for Percussion ==
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• MacDonald, Payton
  ...settings, from Carnegie Hall to remote wilderness locations. He spent his early years drumming along with jazz records, while exploring the Rocky Mountains <!--== Books for Percussion ==
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• Patrick Roulet
  ...n Performance) and [[University of Washington]] (Doctor of Musical Arts in Percussion Performance)<br/> ...at Towson University and Southern Utah University and eight seasons as the percussion instructor at the New England Music Camp in Maine.
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• Komives, Janos
  ...century: The Claw and breath . (symphonic games), or a total of about 160 works Attached to any chapel, it covers all genres: symphonic, chamber, opera, ba ...nally, with his "Serenade Orchestra" CD of "Impressionist Music" featuring works by Chabrier, d'Indy and Theodore Dubois (Koch Schwann, released in 1997).<r
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• Malipiero, Riccardo
  Malipiero's early works were composed using a free atonality. In 1945 he began using a twelve-tone == Works for Percussion ==
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• Lansky, Paul
  ...bient noise. A turning point in this regard was one of his most successful early tape compositions, Six Fantasies on a Poem by Thomas Campion (1979), in whi ...opposed to the "silicon music" in which he more frequently engages. Recent works have included Three Moves for Marimba (written for Nancy Zeltsman), Semi-Su
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• Manzoni, Giacomo
  ...cide with that work’s first performance. Manzoni has contributed essays on early and modern composers (Monteverdi, Brahms, Dallapiccola, etc.) and on variou == Works for Percussion ==
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• Heyn, Volker
  German composer of mostly stage, orchestral, chamber, vocal, and performance works that have been performed throughout the world. Breitkopf & Härtel publishes some of his early works and Tre Media Musikverlage publishes most of his music written after 1995.
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• Horne, David
  ...non professionally) and he started learning the piano at the age of seven. Early in his life his family moved to Norway, his mother’s native country. Aged == Works for Percussion ==
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• Two Transparent Structures for Percussion Quintet (Quintet)
  ===Percussion Ensemble=== Auxiliary Percussion: [[Triangle]] & [[Log Drum]] & 5 Coffee Cans <br/>
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• Shapey, Ralph
  Born in Philadelphia in 1921, Ralph Shapey showed early talent as a violinist. He developed as a conductor during his teens, and wa == Works for Percussion ==
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• Hiller, Lejaren
  color acrylic fibers such as Orlon. His early work on the chemistry of polymers == Works for Percussion ==
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• Ruzicka, Peter
  ...he list of his compositions includes numerous orchestral and chamber music works as well as the opera „Celan“, which was premiered in Dresden in 2001. H ...nio Pappano, Giuseppe Sinopoli and Christian Thielemann have performed his works.
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• Kelly, Robert
  ...ly was born September 26, 1916, at Clarksburg, WV. He studied violin at an early age and later majored in violin at the Juilliard School of Music under Samu ...and Narrator was premiered by the University of Illinois Concert Choir and Percussion Ensemble conducted by Harold Decker.
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• Hachimura, Yoshio
  ...Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, graduating in 1961. His early compositions display the influence of the atonal Expressionism of the Secon == Works for Percussion ==
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• Hajdu, Loránt
  ...ajdu was born in Bucharest, Romania, to a Hungarian family in 1937. In his early childhood they moved to Budapest, Hungary. He studied piano with Clara Chit == Works for Percussion ==
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• Genzmer, Harald
  From 1938 he taught at the Volksmusikschule Berlin-Neukölln. During the early part of the second world war he served as a military band clarinetist. When == Works for Percussion ==
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• Gould, Morton
  Born in Richmond Hill, New York, Gould was recognized early as a child prodigy with abilities in improvisation and composition. His fir == Works for Percussion ==
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• Jankowski, Loretta
  ...d theory in the prepatory division of the Juilliard School of Music in the early 1960's. She hold a Masters of Music in Composition from the University of M == Works for Percussion ==
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• First Construction (in metal)
  ...truction (In Metal) by John Cage is one of the earliest pieces written for percussion ensemble. This 6-player work was the origin of Cage's "rhythmic structures" ...ww.lonestarpercussion.com/Sheet-Music-Books/Music-For-Percussion-Ensembles/Percussion-Ensembles-Mixed-Instrumentation-First-Construction-In-Metal-by-John-Cage-C-
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• Programma-voorbeelden A
  Difficulty: Early Intermediate <br/> Series: [[De Haske Percussion Series]] <br/>
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• Glass, Philip
  ...f himself as a composer of “music with repetitive structures.” Much of his early work was based on the extended reiteration of brief, elegant melodic fragme == Works for Percussion ==
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• Mathematics
  [[Multiple Percussion]]: [[Variable Instrumentation]]<br> ...playwright and actor, Hrant Alianak. The graphic score is written for solo percussion. The music has no melody, harmony, counterpoint or even much in the way of
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• Harvey, Jonathan
  ...essons with Erwin Stein and Hans Keller on the advice of Benjamin Britten. Early musical influences included Schoenberg, Berg, Messiaen and Britten. While u At IRCAM, Harvey produced works such as Speakings, a composition for large orchestra and electronics. The c
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• Hershey, Sharon
  ...spirituality. Indeed, she has given up writing concert music - she has had works performed both here and abroad - to concentrate exclusively on the writing == Works for Percussion ==
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• Thomass, Eugen
  Since the early 1960s, Thomass has written music for film and television. His works include the music for the television film Orden for the prodigies (1963), t == Works for Percussion ==
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• Hedstrøm, Åse
  ...example, she was elected president of the nationwide society Ny Musikk as early as 1976, and during her term in office the organization expanded considerab Hedstrøm has a considerable list of works, where the orchestral pieces Anima (1983), Nenia (1986) and Cantos (1993) A
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• Prince, Robert
  ...ion and film credits were extensive and stretched from the 1960s until the early '80s. He shared an Emmy nomination with Billy Goldenberg for "The Name of t == Works for Percussion ==
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• Geszler, Gyorgy
  ...ános Koessler. He also graduated from Imre Keéri-Szántó's piano class. His early successes as a composer, among them the Gépetüdök (Machine studies) and ...0s. He was fired from his job at the Conservatory, and performances of his works were prohibited. He also had to fight to prevent his family of four childre
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• Varèse, Edgard
  ...and instrument builders), and was one of the first to extensively explore percussion, electronics, and taped sounds. He was, as Henry Miller called him, "The st Varese spent his early childhood in Paris and Burgundy. His father wanted him to study math and en
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• Trythall, Gilbert
  ...re, brilliant twelve-tone work. Beginning with the Moog synthesizer in the early 1960s, Trythall made increasing use of electronic and computerized resource == Works for Percussion ==
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• Stoicheia
  percussion ensemble of 6 players<br> percussion ensemble of 7 players<br>
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• Laske, Otto
  ...rk of the international avant-garde and became steeped in the new "atonal" works through his teachers Renato de Grandis and Konrad Lechner, Darmstadt, Germa ...either to orchestrate numerical scores to create vocal and/or instrumental works, or to craft a synthesis of acoustic sample structure and computer-generate
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• Marimba Quartet No. 2 - Sensing the Coriolis
  '''Publisher''': [[Christopher Deane]], distributed by [[Innovative Percussion]]<br /--> ...ntieth and early twenty-first century process / pattern music composed for percussion ensemble features very short thematic subjects, often constructed of only a
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• Milhaud, Darius
  ...and by an important Provencal background. He was initiated to music at an early age, as his parents wanted him to be a virtuoso violinist. But Milhaud’s The vast quantity of works he produced during his long career (443 opus), illustrated different types
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• Sextet
  <!-- Use the above format for entering instrumentation for chamber works or pieces with multiple performers. Make sure you use a line break <nowiki> ...Nexus Percussion Ensemble. The first performance under the title Music for percussion and Keyboards was given at the Centre Pompidou in Paris on 19 December 1984
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• The Gilded Cage
  ...age. There are numerous influences from Cage’s notable piece, including an early quote of the opening theme, here divided between the four performers and pl == Works for Percussion by this Composer ==
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• Whatcha Baion?
  ...in the traditional baion style from Northeastern Brazil. Following a brief percussion break and an abbreviated layering of the groove, the tune returns and leads ==Works for Percussion by this Composer==
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• Combo Meal
  ...hestration and effective textural variation. Both keyboard and non-pitched percussion sections are featured independently, layered passages allow new voices and ==Works for Percussion by this Composer==
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• Gilbert, Eleanor Hovda
  == Works for Percussion == ...composers works and input a title under this section ie: {{Spencer, Julie Works}} -->
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• LaPorta, John D.
  In the early 1940s he joined the Bob Chester Band, then later joined Woody Herman's Firs ==Works for Percussion==
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• Korf, Anthony
  As early as Korf’s Symphony No. 2 “Blue Note,” from 1987, New Yorker critic A ==Works for Percussion==
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• Wanamaker, Jay
  ...tion materials and was serving on the Percussive Arts Society's rudimental percussion committee. In 1984, while serving as chair of the committee, he and the oth <!--== Books for Percussion ==
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• Joaquin on Sunshine
  ...ginally written in 2008 under the working title “El Ritmo Adentro.” In the early stages of my writing, the rhythms started developing an Afro-Cuban flavor, Written for a large ensemble, the piece uses a fairly typical array of percussion instruments as well as a rhythm section including bass guitar, piano, [[dru
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• Krenek, Ernst
  Krenek's music is in a variety of styles. His early work is in a late-Romantic idiom, showing the influence of his teacher Fran ==Works for Percussion==
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• Percussion Symphony
  ...These "Entr'actes," as I call them, are transcriptions (reworkings) of the early Dufay setting (ca. 1430) of Petrarch's Vergine bella. The first is in moder ...es. Aside from containing a lavish number of arresting thematic ideas, the Percussion Symphony is cunningly devised to engage the ear with shifting layers of pit
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• Frogs
  ...GS is in a "toccata" style and reminds this writer of miniature-type piano works by MacDowell and Ravel. The performer will need a rapid four mallet techniq ...asons it is percussionists favorite pieces to play. The piece shows Abe’s early compositional style of having melodic notes overlaying the harmonic structu
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• Mallet Duets (Brown, T. A)
  '''Difficulty''': Elementary to Early Intermediate<br /--> 3. Watch Works <br />
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• Planet Damnation for Percussion Ensemble
  ...also be the biggest challenge in translating Planet Damnation to keyboard percussion instruments due to their inherent lack of ability to sustain a note. As per ==Works for Percussion by this Composer==
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• A Sky Full of Stars
  ...features unison statements from non-pitched instruments with the keyboard percussion instruments executing repetitive figures whose counterpoint almost invokes ...ece, all parts are idiomatically written to be playable by intermediate to early-advanced players. Four-mallet writing is chordal (either as block or broken
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• Pliplets
  Level: Early Intermediate<br/> ...Academy percussion ensemble and premiered at the AZPAS 2016 Spring Days of Percussion. The piece can be played with as few as seven or as many as twelve or more
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• The Additive Method of Two-Mallet Study
  [[Mallet Percussion]] ...d drums, or any other percussion instrument. In return, the study of other percussion instruments will greatly improve your two-mallet keyboard skills. The inspi
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• Snare Drum Basis (Book 1)
  ...e percussion student with playing together, hearing and reacting to other (percussion) instruments right from the start. ...ther percussion instruments around them. This will enable him to play in a percussion ensemble sooner.
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• Five Etudes for Marimba, Book 1
  ...h Gordon Stout's influence on marimba performance and literature since the early 1970's, Five Etudes and Ode for Marimba offer a wonderful perspective into == Works for Percussion by this Composer ==
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• Eight Pieces for Four Timpani
  ...e is dedicated to a performer who showed an interest in the works in their early days: ...d faculty member.<ref>http://www.steveweissmusic.com/product/236/classical-percussion-recordings</ref><br>
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• Desert Songs II
  ...tforward recitative-style choral proclamation of the story of the lizard's early life. The text for the next part of the poem is: "The rougher the country t == Works for Percussion by this Composer ==
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• Glazer, Stuart
  ...randfather was an accomplished artist who influenced Glazer throughout his early childhood. == Works for Percussion ==
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• Take That
  <!-- Use the above format for entering instrumentation for chamber works or pieces with multiple performers. Make sure you use a line break <nowiki> ...c and non-tonal techniques with elements of American pop music. Though his works are crafted concisely, he stressed the value of music as a form of communic
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• Concerto for Violin with Percussion Orchestra
  ...esting and very original variety of percussion instruments. Sometimes this percussion work is rhythmic and incisive, but often it is delicately and coloristicall == Works for Percussion by this Composer ==
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• Babbitt, Milton
  ...He taught at Princeton and The Juilliard School. An extensive catalogue of works for multiple combinations of instruments and voice along with his pioneerin ...g the violin when he was four but soon switched to clarinet and saxophone. Early in his life he was attracted to jazz and theater music. He was making his o
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• Three Dances for Solo Snare Drum
  <!-- Use the above format for entering instrumentation for chamber works or pieces with multiple performers. Make sure you use a line break <nowiki> ...is solo is appropriate for state and college auditions for high school and early university students. Each dance is stylistically different.
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• Third Construction
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• Second Construction
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• StarDancer
  Commissioner: Hawaii Youth Percussion Ensemble, Caden Hong <br/> ...erest in the moon and the stars. Nothing gets her out of bed faster in the early morning than asking if she wants to go look at the stars before the sun com
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• Additive Method of Two-Mallet Study
  ...d drums, or any other percussion instrument. In return, the study of other percussion instruments will greatly improve your two-mallet keyboard skills. The inspi == Works for Percussion by this Composer ==
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• The Performing Percussionist Solo Album
  === Multiple Percussion === ...real percussion performance. Sixteen solos add variety and interest at an early level while building well-rounded musicians and reinforcing the principles
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• Divertimento for Marimba and Alto Saxophone
  ...l solo works, choral music, and music for children. This 1968 piece was an early example of marimba music in Japan, which has come to be one of the leading == Works for Percussion by this Composer ==
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• Imaginary Landscape No.3
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• The Alabados Song
  ...the southwest United States. As families and entire villages moved in the early 1900s from Mexico and other South American Countries into the United States == Works for Percussion by this Composer ==
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• The Alabados Song (Wind Ens. Ver.)
  ...the southwest United States. As families and entire villages moved in the early 1900s from Mexico and other South American Countries into the United States == Works for Percussion by this Composer ==
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• Improvisational Suite
  [[Multiple Percussion]]: Instruments chosen by performer<br> ...tated in words and directions only. I premiered it at Gesell Institute for Early Childhood Learning at the University of Wisconisn - Stevens Point, Lorrie R
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• Fever Dream
  I was one of the many people who was affected by the coronavirus in early 2022. Luckily, my symptoms were only relatively mild, but my sleep would be == Works for Percussion by this Composer ==
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• Trio for Tambourines
  ...ith jingles. I wrote this music for a presentation at Gesell Institute for Early Childhood Learning at the University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point, teacher == Works for Percussion by this Composer ==
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• Yarrageh - Nocturno for Percussion and Orchestra
  Auxiliary Percussion: [[Cowbell]] <br/> ...Much of Yarrageh was conceived as I walked through the Australian bush in early Spring. The title is an Aboriginal word which means ‘the spirit of Spring
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• Goodenberger, Mark
  ...ms with the Portland Baroque Orchestra, Pacific Music Works, and Vancouver Early Music. Mark Goodenberger is a [[Yamaha Performing Artist]], a member of the ==Works For Percussion by this Composer==
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• Fading Away
  ...pecifically programmatic, but it does follow a certain flow of an idea. In early drafts I had it titled as “heroes journey”. So it has your typical layo ==Works for Percussion by this Composer==
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• Fourteen
  fourteen, for percussion ensemble, is a mellow piece for a rainy day. fourteen is written for early high school level percussion ensemble. While rhythmically simple, the players are encouraged to focus on
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• Hext, David
  ...rdshire Youth Orchestra and Brass Band. David Hext studied composition and percussion at the Royal College of Music in London and was a member of the European Yo ...Hext has written extensively for solo tuned percussion and timpani and his works are prominent in [[Trinity College London]], [[London College of Music]] &
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• Copper Wire
  Work for Copper Wired started in the early spring of 2015, and even though the work was entered into the PAS contest f == Works for Percussion by this Composer ==
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• Concerto No. 1 per marimbafono e orchestra
  ...usic. With each swell Zivkovic explores new combinations of themes and the percussion section is featured alone before the movement recapitulates. The marimba pa == Works for Percussion by this Composer ==
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• Suite for Marimba (Fissinger)
  "Suite for Marimba" was composed in 1950, making it one of the early "classics" of the original marimba repertoire. Consisting of four movements == Works for Percussion by this Composer ==
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• Clarimba
  ...ncluding Dr. McConkie, Emporia State University. The piece was finished in early February of 2013 and was premiered at “Clarimania” in Poland later that == Works for Percussion by this Composer ==
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• Ballad for Joey (Marimba)
  ...Point and the University of Miami in Florida. The waltz melody came to me early one morning, and I got up and wrote it down. Cousin Dan Siau said, when he == Works for Percussion by this Composer ==
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• Ballad for Joey (Vibraphone)
  ...Point and the University of Miami in Florida. The waltz melody came to me early one morning, and I got up and wrote it down. Cousin Dan Siau said, when he == Works for Percussion by this Composer ==
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• Green Brothers
  ...ir most notable group was the Green Brothers Novelty Orchestra (mid-20s to early 30s) in which George and Joe, along with their younger brother Lew (1909-19 == Works for Percussion ==
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• Horizontal Color Forms 16
  ...appreciation level or as an environmental listening experience. All of the works in this series reflect an interest in creating pure, absolute music that is == Works for Percussion by this Composer ==
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• Five Pieces after Edvard Munch
  ...2 of his works were therefore confiscated in Germany. Edvard Munch died in early 1944 at the age of eighty. <br/> == Works for Percussion by this Composer ==
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• Fanfare for the Common Percussionist
  ...loud fanfare like mood. This ensemble is perfect for advance elementary or early middle school students. == Works for Percussion by this Composer ==
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• Achievement Unlocked
  Achievement Unlocked was written to fit the varying needs of early percussion programs. The flexible instrumentation and variable number of players provi == Works for Percussion by this Composer ==
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• Doors
  Doors was commissioned by the TCU Percussion Orchestra and composed in 2010. [[Dave Hall]] began to compose the piece by ...e Hall]]'s late father-in-law John Ruppel, who passed away unexpectedly in early 2010 as I had just begun to compose the piece. In an abstract way, Doors re
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• Wild Stallions
  Difficulty: Early Intermediate <br/> ...y level of ensemble. Commissioned by the William Saroyan Elementary School Percussion Ensemble, AnnaMarie Schielbelhut, Conductor Composed with four clear sectio
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• Moore, James
  ...rcussionist with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra for four years in the early sixties. <ref>https://music.osu.edu/news/james-l.-moore-emeritus-professor-percussion</ref>
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• Variations on Handel's
  ...John Arena at The Ohio State University as an undergraduate student in the early 1960s. This is a standard set of variations, idiomatic for the vibe. == Works for Percussion by this Composer ==
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• Finding Oasis
  ...enres of music. The first movement - Burnt Sands – alludes to the music of early 1990s video game soundtracks, and builds flowing rhythmic grooves over an U == Works for Percussion by this Composer ==
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• Fundamental Solos for Mallets
  11 Early- to Late-Intermediate Solos for the Developing Mallet Player == Works for Percussion by this Composer ==
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• A Day In The City
  ..."Tonal, charming and imaginative! <ref>http://www.brixtonpublications.com/percussion-4.html</ref> == Works for Percussion by this Composer ==
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• Barbarossa
  ...inspired by the make-believe adventures of my oldest daughter. During the early stages of the global COVID-19 pandemic, she and I spent many hours in our b ==Works for Percussion by this Composer==
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• Fifth Simfony
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• Instruction Course for Xylophone: A Complete Course of Fifty Lessons
  ...ruction Course for Xylophone is the most comprehensive method for keyboard percussion ever written. This outstanding xylophone method book contains a complete co ...aying and a must for anyone interested in virtuoso xylophone styles of the early 1900’s.” - [[Bob Becker]], Nexus
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• Elledge, Chuck
  ...nce. He has had numerous concert band, full orchestra and string orchestra works published by the [[Neil A. Kjos Music Company]]. ==Works for Percussion by this Composer==
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• LCM Grade 1 Snare Drum
  == Technical Works == | 7 || Early Riser || [[Brian Stone]] || [[LCM Snare Drum Grades 1-2]] || [[Stainer & Be
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• Festival Ensembles Book 2 (Mallet Percussion)
  Difficulty: Early Intermediate <br/> [[Mallet Percussion]]
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• Festival Ensembles Book 2 (Drums, Timpani & Auxiliary Percussion)
  Difficulty: Early Intermediate <br/> [[Auxiliary Percussion]] <br/>
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• Peeping Tom - from the Noble Snare Vol. 2
  ...ncluding kinetic sound sculpture and experimental and documentary film. He works in the fluxus tradition, a movement that rose to prominence in the 1960s wh ...which have been incorporated into many of his performance and instillation works. He regularly tours Europe and the U.S. as a featured artist at festivals a
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• At the Dawn of War
  The idea for this piece began to manifest itself early in the fall of 2000, with the original sketches following soon thereafter. ==Works for Percussion by this Composer==
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• Big Band March
  Level: Early Elementary <br/> ==Works for Percussion by this Composer==
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• The Bells (Mourik)
  ...re is a procession in Corfu (Greece) in which all music bands are present. Early in the morning they come from all sides and you don't know where to look or == Works for Percussion by this Composer ==
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• Soave sia il vento
  ...reference, an ironic play on words, a comment on love (or war), or even an early 250 th birthday present to Mozart himself. The truth is less interesting. N == Works for Percussion by this Composer ==
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• ​Petrol Zuid
  Difficulty: Early Elementary to Advanced <br/> ==Works for Percussion by this Composer==
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• Play Xylophone by Letter: 22 Xylophone Songs for Kids and Adults
  Level ‏ : ‎ Early Elementary<br/> This percussion instrument develops not only a musical ear, but also gross and fine motor s
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• Amores
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• Master Technique Builders for Snare Drum
  ...ful to someone at any level of playing. To adopt some ideas from this book early on would greatly improve anyone’s playing in the long run. For the more e == Works for Percussion by this Author==
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• Credo in US
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• Forever and Sunsmell
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• Imaginary Landscape No.2
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• Living Room Music
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• The Wonderful Widow of Eighteen Springs
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• Percussion Masterclass on Works by Carter, Milhaud and Stravinsky
  ...ful to someone at any level of playing. To adopt some ideas from this book early on would greatly improve anyone’s playing in the long run. For the more e == Works for Percussion by this Author==
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• Trio
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• Ballet Mécanique
  <!-- Use the above format for entering instrumentation for chamber works or pieces with multiple performers. Make sure you use a line break <nowiki> ...orted percussion. This version, which is much tighter and shorter than the early versions, is performed fairly often and has been recorded several times.
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• Constellations (Lin Chin Cheng)
  ...tructed in a chorale style, in order to develop the rollings skills in the early marimba study. ==Works for Percussion by this Composer==
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• Year (Lin Chin Cheng)
  ...l style, in order to develop the independant four mallets technique in the early marimba studying. ==Works for Percussion by this Composer==
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• 5 Piece for Marimba Volume 4
  ...s that are all audience-friendly and accessible to advanced high school or early college percussionists. Each solo has a different compositional style: * Balafon is named after a Guinean percussion instrument and features a lot of playing on different zones of the bars to
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• Night Hunter
  ...to vampires, the folklore of which originates almost exclusively from the early 18th century in southeastern Europe. In modern fiction (and in this work), ==Work for Percussion by this Composer==
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• Concerto for Marimba and Chamber Orchestra
  Early in the process of composing Chamber Concerto for Marimba and Orchestra, I r Similarly to other works of mine, such as my Latin Piano Concerto (2006), Chamber Concerto for Marim
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• Omnibus I
  This is a unique experiment in notation from the early 1970's. A one page graphic score is given to each player who must interpret == Works for Percussion by this Composer ==
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• 20th Century Orchestra Studies for Timpani (c.1970)
  Repertoire for timpani spanning the period from the early 1900's (Richard Strauss and Sibelius) to the 1960's (Barber and Bernstein) == Works for Percussion by this Composer ==
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• Variations on Amazing Grace
  ...llets), is comprised of a four-part chorale-style exposition of the famous early American melody, followed by four variations in contrasting styles. The var == Works for Percussion by this Composer ==
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