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• Percussion History
  ...00 B.C.) would begin looking for objects that resonated. Having this goal in mind, man began to discover idiophones, an object that vibrates when struck ...nt sound. Humans also started to place the skins of animals over hollowed out stumps, or pots, and would then strike the skin with a bare hand to create
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• Timpani History
  ...ore unified countries, Islamic countries were able to seize Constantinople in 673 A.D., thus introducing their mounted nacair drums to Western Europe. ...per depending on what kind of craftsmen and resources which were prominent in the area, a woodsmen, potter, or metalsmith. There was a variety of playin
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• El día de los muertos
  ...me of the file (it can be a .jpg or a .gif) as well as the composer's name in the fields above. You may delete this text once this is done.--> ...the ghostly images of the American and European Halloween, as exemplified in Mussorgsky‘s Night on Bald Mountain and Saint-Saëns' Danse Macabre.
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• Gilbert, Eleanor Hovda
  <!-- to edit the works list - Type in Search bar Template:Spencer, Julie Works for example --> ...David Lang]], another close friend and the co-founder of [[Bang on a Can]] in New York.
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• Out of the Woodwork
  ...me of the file (it can be a .jpg or a .gif) as well as the composer's name in the fields above. You may delete this text once this is done.--> The Other Day (Med-Easy - 2:05)<br>
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• The Beatles for Glockenspiel
  5. Back In The U.S.S.R. <br/> 10. Day Tripper <br/>
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• The Beatles for Bells / Glockenspiel
  Back In The U.S.S.R.<br/> Day Tripper<br/>
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• Garibaldi, David
  ...ere comes a time in the set when everyone locks into the moment, we’re all in the same place and we become…one person, one entity. ...have to be the weekend we opened for Aretha Franklin at the Fillmore West in San Francisco. When I think about watching her from the wings leading King
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• Gharnati
  ...me of the file (it can be a .jpg or a .gif) as well as the composer's name in the fields above. You may delete this text once this is done.--> ...developed as a set of variations which create a suite of dances, somewhat in the Western tradition, but adheres strictly to the unstable Andalusian mode
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• A Day In The City
  ...me of the file (it can be a .jpg or a .gif) as well as the composer's name in the fields above. You may delete this text once this is done.--> ...ing waltz); Sudden Storm (getting caught up in a raging thunderstorm); and Out on the Town (has a cheerful Latin feel and breaks into swing as it reaches
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• Water and Ice
  ...me of the file (it can be a .jpg or a .gif) as well as the composer's name in the fields above. You may delete this text once this is done.--> ...layed in large buckets of water, Wind Gongs dipped, Wood bowls turned over in water, Triangles<br>
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• Christmas Day
  ...12/8 time. This piece gives entry-level players to prepare a rousing piece in limited time. You can't wrap that kind of gift with a bow! ...holiday concert or just a cheerful and playful work, check out “Christmas Day” by Brian Slawson. It is well suited for the advanced middle school ensem
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• The Beatles for Xylophone
  3. A Day In The Life<br/> 7. A Hard Day's Night<br/>
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• Saariaho, Kaija
  ...ominent member of a group of Finnish composers and performers who are now, in mid-career, making a worldwide impact. Born in Helsinki in 1952, she studied at the Sibelius Academy there with the pioneering moderni
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• Lepak, Alexander
  ...t ear training and conducted the Hartt Concert Jazz Band, which he founded in 1955. ...y with Ralph Baldwin. He began to compose and arrange music, and performed in various clubs and hotels with both John Mehegan and Paul Landerman's Orches
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• Firth, Everett "Vic"
  ...al lessons on trombone, clarinet, piano and percussion. By the time he was in high school, he had gravitated full-time to percussion, studying first with ...chelor's Degree from the Conservatory, he had to make special arrangements in order to complete his course work and degree.
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• Hood, Mantle
  ...Angeles in the 1930s and wrote pulp fiction while employed as a draftsman in the aeronautical industry. ...ice in Europe during World War II, he returned to Los Angeles. He enrolled in the School of Agriculture at the University of California before transferri
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• Beneath Lighted Coffers
  ...me of the file (it can be a .jpg or a .gif) as well as the composer's name in the fields above. You may delete this text once this is done.--> ...e dome cannot be seen from afar, creating a somewhat unexpected experience in the rotunda. What captivates me most about the Greek-inspired entrance are
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• Bellson, Louis
  ...l Gene Krupa contest. Louie graduated from Moline High School, Moline, IL, in 1939. In an interview in 2005 with Jazz Connection Magazine he credited Papa Jo Jones and Big Sid Ca
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• Veldhuis, Jacob ter
  ...cal styles, he is equally comfortable referencing "high" and "low" culture in his works, and he finds provocative ways to do so. ...usic is hardly what I would call 'aesthetically pleasing'; dissonance has, in my opinion, been totally devalued as a manner of expression."
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• Sringhara
  ...me of the file (it can be a .jpg or a .gif) as well as the composer's name in the fields above. You may delete this text once this is done.--> Day after day;<br>
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• Herakles
  ...s performed successfully, bringing the total number of tasks up to twelve. In this composition, three of the twelve myths are set to music. <br/> ...mazed and terrified. Eurystheus forbade him ever again to enter the city; in future he was to display the fruits of his labours outside the city gates.
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• Cloud Dance
  ...feverishly—it was like I could hardly keep up with the ideas taking shape in my mind. A week later, I had completed Cloud Dance. ...with the rain slowing to a stop and the warm summer sun beginning to peek out from behind the clouds.
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• Tombeau in Memoriam Gérard Grisey
  ...me of the file (it can be a .jpg or a .gif) as well as the composer's name in the fields above. You may delete this text once this is done.--> ...it. We have but little, count for so little of what we could call our own, in the purest sense of the term. We all of us must accept and learn, both from
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• Liminality
  ...food and shelter) is time, beauty, and love, and all three were available in abundance on the Island. ...Jonathan Scales Fourchestra also infiltrated my subconscious as I sketched out the work. I also hoped to capture an aural cross-section of the diversity,
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• Theodore Presser Company
  <!-- to edit the works list - Type in Search bar Template:Spencer, Julie Works for example --> ...azine and the founder of the publishing firm, but also as a philanthropist in the cause of music education.
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• Ohana, Maurice
  ...e 12, 1913 in Casablanca, Maurice Ohana did almost all his musical studies in France, while pursuing his classical studies. He moved for some time toward Very young, he began as a pianist in the Basque Country where his family is fixed; his career remains promising
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• Ifukube, Akira
  ...st encounter with classical music occurred when attending secondary school in Hokkaidō's capital, Sapporo. Legend has it that Ifukube decided to become .... In the late 1930s his music, especially Japanese Rhapsody, was performed in Europe on a number of occasions.
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• Burt, George
  ...lackened, which they invariably did at times, he shipped out as a deckhand in the Merchant Marine, drove an ambulance or worked as a laborer. "Life was a ...irchner and Milton Babbitt. He also worked with Gyorgy Ligeti for one year in Vienna while on an Alfred Hertz Memorial Grant
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• Three Movements for Percussion (Drewsen)
  ...place in my heart and has inspired me through their tonal language (mostly in the second and third movements). The melodic style is a conscious choice to ...He states that inspiration for the work comes from his background working in an opera orchestra, and the music of Prokofiev, Shostakovich, and Ravel.
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• Hughes, Gordon
  ...was then nominated for Young Australian of the Year for career achievement in 1999. ...ide an active performing and conducting schedule that has seen him perform in all major Australian concert halls, Gordon is the founder and managing dire
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• Veni, Veni, Emmanuel
  ...ce can be discussed in two ways. On one level it is a purely abstract work in which all the musical material is drawn from the 15th century French Advent ...into a five-sectioned arch. It begins with a bold, fanfare-like ‘overture’ in which the soloist presents all the instrument-types used throughout. When t
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• Supraphon
  <!-- to edit the works list - Type in Search bar Template:Spencer, Julie Works for example --> ...he firm gave rise to a broad catalog of titles which systematically mapped out the works of Bedřich Smetana, Antonín Dvořák, and Leos Janáček, as we
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• Wheels Up
  ...me of the file (it can be a .jpg or a .gif) as well as the composer's name in the fields above. You may delete this text once this is done.--> ...er percussion ensemble. Each tune can be performed as a standalone solo or in combination with the other tunes as a suite.
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• The Complete Percussionist
  ...me of the file (it can be a .jpg or a .gif) as well as the composer's name in the fields above. You may delete this text once this is done.--> ...and tuning information, along with detailed explanation of each instrument in the percussion family, starting with snare drum, and then moving to tenor d
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• Pritsker, Gene
  ...music presenting organization with a 30 year history of producing concerts in NYC. ...rvi and has been a composer in residence and guitarist since its creation in 1993. Gene's music has been performed worldwide at various festivals and
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• ABRSM Grade 4 Orchestral Percussion
  | 5 || Dodging the Cracks in the Pavement || [[Snare Drum]] & [[Piano]] || [[Zara Nunn]] || [[Percussio | 4 || Snow Day || [[Zara Nunn]] || [[Piano]] || [[Percussion Exam Pieces & Studies, ABRSM
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• Thy Kingdom Come
  ...that I would not be able to tell the full story of the Book of Revelation in one piece. The broad perception of the book is that it only depicts the apo ...the sea where he saw a rainbow over the bay and he could hear church bells in the distance.
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• ABRSM Grade 4 Keyboard Percussion
  * [[Xylophone]] / [[Vibraphone]] / [[Marimba]] may be used in exam. ...a piece at any grade to suit the range of an instrument (unless indicated in the music).
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• Sonata No. 1 for Timpani and Piano
  ...me of the file (it can be a .jpg or a .gif) as well as the composer's name in the fields above. You may delete this text once this is done.--> ...o is a fanciful romp through mixed meters; however, the compound harmonies in the piano ass a complexity to the music. The Allegro becomes slower an heav
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• Pyroclastic Steam
  ...e is composed of four parts: Eruption, Aftermath, Synthesis, and Epilogue. In the first three sections, the music depicts the violent process of the isla ...cafeteria (which happened to be perched on top of a mountain). As I looked out at the island and listened to the austere beauty of their music, it seemed
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• A World of Our Creation
  ...that may sound, A World of Our Creation is a call for creative solutions. In presenting some of my favorite creative sounds (bowed vibes, steel pans, de ...IGHT. IT IS QUITE REFLECTIVE OF THE COMPOSER’S ADMITTEDLY GREAT EXPERIENCE IN HIGH SCHOOL AND HOW IT CAN BE A TIME OF GREAT DISCOVERY AND CREATIVITY.
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• Peel, Eric
  ...ce he can. Eric has taught the percussion sections of several high schools in Western Washington including Lake Washington, Roosevelt, and Kamiak High Sc <!-- to edit the works list - Type in Search bar Template:Spencer, Julie Works for example -->
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• Play Drum Kit, Timpani & Percussion (Book 1)
  ...module before starting on the next one, you will progress through the book in an easy step-by-step way.<br/> [[Day & Night]]<br/>
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• Legend of the Sleeping Bear
  ...me of the file (it can be a .jpg or a .gif) as well as the composer's name in the fields above. You may delete this text once this is done.--> A Chippewa Indian legend tells of a mother bear and her two cubs living in Wisconsin on the shores of Lake Michigan. One summer night a storm came upo
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• Firefly (Nathan Daughtrey)
  ...tween two clans in the 12th century. Once a year, on the night of the 20th day of the fourth month, the fireflies re-enact the great battle on the Uji Riv ...ings. The serial firefly can be found throughout all of the keyboard parts in many different forms – from texture to accompaniment to melody and back a
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• Suite for Solo Drum Set and Percussion Ensemble
  ...me of the file (it can be a .jpg or a .gif) as well as the composer's name in the fields above. You may delete this text once this is done.--> ...tunities for the drummer to ad-lib over the established groove and stretch out some of the solo sections.
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• Concerto for Vibraphone & Percussion Ensemble
  ...nd day. The poems are full of rich & vivid imagery that I tried to capture in the music. ...vements attacca so that the second movement, Enchanted Light, bursts forth out of the first movement.
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• Stages of Sleep
  ...nd peace prevails. Everyone knows each other by name. At dawn it all turns out to be a dream. Or not? Goodnight!
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• Distant Memories
  ...ve, sadness, reflection, etc. win out over what we have to deal with every day. ) are. Unavoidable.
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