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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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