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• Percussion History
  ...of the Paleolithic Era (c. 198,000 B.C. – 10,000 B.C.) would begin looking for objects that resonated. Having this goal in mind, man began to discover id ...mes prominent, music is used more for recreation in some cultures and less for serious events. We then move into the transition period of the Bronze Age,
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• Gilbert, Eleanor Hovda
  == Works for Percussion == <!-- Create a template for the composers works and input a title under this section ie: {{Spencer, Jul
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• Weaver, Sarah
  Studies: University of Michigan, masters degree from New York University, and is currently pursuing her PhD at Stony Brook University<ref ...res the inherent artistic properties of the medium within her contemporary music works.
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• Agócs, Kati
  ...tion from The American Academy of Arts and Letters, and a two-time nominee for Classical Composition of the Year in the Juno Awards, the Canadian Grammy A ...w cantata, conceived with transparency as a first principle…entirely, word for word, lucid…her text demands to be heard, and is.”
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• Bailey, Elden "Buster"
  Studies: New England Conservatory of Music; Juilliard School ...t. Bailey remembers him as a very good teacher who gave him the foundation for his technique based on the "Bower system."
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• Rosenboom, David
  ...ollaborations, performance art and literature, interactive multi-media and new instrument technologies, generative algorithmic systems, art-science resear ...e 1970s he was founding faculty and a professor in the Music Department at York University in Toronto. His independent career outside institutions has span
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• Resounding Earth
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• Beyer, Johanna
  Studies: Mannes College of Music, ...Rudhyar and in 1934 took Henry Cowell's percussion class at the New School for Social Research. Her musical life during these years was intertwined with S
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• Krupa, Gene
  ...it was an instrument. The cheapest item was the drums, 16 beans, I think, for a set of Japanese drums; a great high, wide bass drum, with a brass cymbal ...y and the Benson Orchestra among other commercial bands. A popular hangout for musicians was "The Three Deuces." All of the guys playing in mickey mouse b
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• Dowd, Charles
  Country: Syracuse, New York, U.S.A. <br /> ...University (B.M.1970), Stanford University (M.A.1971), Juilliard School of Music
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• Babbitt, Milton
  Studies: New York University (B.A. 1935), Princeton Univ. (M.F.A. 1942, Ph.D. 1992) ...and awards, including a MacArthur Fellowship and a Pulitzer Prize Citation for his "life's work as a distinguished and seminal American composer," Babbitt
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• Steiger, Rand
  Country: New York City USA <br /> ...Philharmonic, where he served as Composer Fellow. Soloists he has composed for include Matthew Barley, Maya Beiser, Claire Chase, Daniel Druckman, Peter E
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• Gordon, Michael
  Studies: New York University (BA); Yale School of Music (MM) ...d specifically for the recording studio. Transcending categorization, this music represents the collision of mysterious introspection and brutal directness.
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• Feldman, Morton
  Died: September 03, 1987 Buffalo, New York<br /> Country: New York City, U.S.A. <br />
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• Cerrone, Christopher
  Studies: Manhattan School of Music (2007); Yale School of Music ...es. Cerrone is a founding member and co-artistic director of Red Light New Music, and part of the Sleeping Giant composers collective.
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• Burwasser, Daniel
  Country: New Brunswick, New Jersey U.S.A. <br /> ...ry 2008 by the Downtown Chamber and Opera Players in New York. Burwasser’s music is published by Ensemble Publications.
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• Wolfe, Julia
  Julia Wolfe, a 2016 MacArthur Fellow and winner of the 2015 Pulitzer Prize in music, draws inspiration from folk, classical, and rock genres, bringing a modern ...lso of the sweetness and passion of a way of daily life now also lost. The music compels without overstatement. This is a major, profound work."
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• Grubbs, Jeffrey
  Studies: Boston Conservatory of Music, B.M.; New England Conservatory M.M. ...onta, New York) and Schenectady County Community College (Schenectady, New York).
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• Gould, Morton
  Country: Richmond Hill, New York, U.S.A. <br /> Born in Richmond Hill, New York, Gould was recognized early as a child prodigy with abilities in improvisat
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• McCandless, Richard
  Country: New York, USA <br /> ...ounds -- subtle, emphatic, expertly shaped and richly expressive." The New York Times has referred to McCandless as a gifted performer, and the Washington
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• Carter, Elliott
  Born: December 11, 1908 - New York City, U.S.A. Died: November 05, 2012 - New York City, U.S.A.<br />
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• Kupferman, Meyer
  Born: July 03, 1926 - New York City, U.S.A.<br /> Country: New York City, U.S.A.<br />
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• Maricle, Sherrie
  Studies: Binghamton University (B. A.), New York University (M. A. in Jazz Performance, Doctorate of Philosophy in Jazz Perf Sharon Lee "Sherrie" Maricle (born September 2, 1963, Buffalo, New York) is an American jazz drummer.[1]
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• Colgrass, Michael
  ...John Cage, Elliott Carter, Edgard Varese, and many others. During this New York period he continued to study composition with Wallingford Riegger (1958) an ...ghton Festival in England, The Fromm and Ford Foundations, The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and numerous other orchestras, chamber groups, choral
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• Breuer, Harry
  Died: June 22, 1989 Brightwater, New York<br /> Country: Brooklyn, New York, U.S.A. <br />
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• Dorman, Avner
  Studies: Tel Aviv University, Juilliard School of Music (DMA) Avner Dorman’s music “works its magic by melding far-flung influences and making them sound
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• Ewazen, Eric
  Studies: Eastman School of Music (B.M.), Juilliard School of Music (M.M., D.M.A.) ...y Music, and Composer-In-Residence with the Orchestra of St. Luke's in New York City. He has been a faculty member at Juilliard since 1980.<ref>http://www.
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• Brant, Henry
  Studies: Juilliard School of Music ...ding maximum resonance in the hall and increased clarity of musical detail for the listener. His catalogue comprises over 100 spatial works.
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• Peyton, Jeffrey
  ...mance and education (visit the teaching and information for students pages for more information on lessons and education opportunities.) ...val, West Coast Chamber and Oregon Coast Festival orchestras. While in New York, Mr. Peyton was principal timpanist of the Juilliard Orchestra and section
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• Brown, Thomas A.
  Country: Schenectady, New York, U.S.A.<br /> ...c camps. He has been a music educator at the high school and college level for 34 years. Mr. Brown has received ASCAP's seventh Standard Award and his 35t
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• Patton, Duncan
  Orchestra: [[New York - The Big List of timpanists]] - The Metropolitan Opera <br> ...so a composer of works for percussion, and his music has been heard in New York, Pittsburgh, Rochester, Hartford, Mexico City, and other cities.
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• Timpani
  '''Timpani''' is the more common plural form of the Italian name for kettledrums. They are a type of drum consisting of a membrane stretched ove ...the "Pauken" page input: #REDIRECT [[Timpani]] This will redirect a search for "Pauken" to the Timpani page. -->
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• Houllif, Murray
  Country: Monticello, New York, U.S.A. <br /> ...director and percussion specialist in the public schools of Smithtown, New York.
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• Jarvis, Peter
  Country: Hackensack, New Jersey, USA<br /> ...American percussionist, drummer, conductor, composer, music copyist, print music editor and college professor.
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• Chatman, Stephen
  ...ted in the BBC Masterprize international competition (2001, “Tara’s Dream” for orchestra). ...rmonic, Niagara, Sydney, Seoul, San Francisco, St. Louis, Detroit, Dallas, New World, Montreal, Quebec, Calgary, Winnipeg, Regina, Saskatoon, P.E.I., and
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• Schuller, Gunther
  Country: New York, U.S.A.<br /> ...noted for his wide range of activity in both jazz and classical music and for his works embracing both jazz and advanced 12-tone elements.
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• Beck, John H.
  Studies: Eastman School of Music (B.M.1955, M.M.1962) Orchestra: [[New York - The Big List of timpanists]] - Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra<br>
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• Goodman, Saul
  Country: Brooklyn, New York, U.S.A. <br /> Orchestra: [[New York - The Big List of timpanists]] - New York Philharmonic<br>
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• Rouse, Christopher
  ...e New York Times has called it "some of the most anguished, most memorable music around." ...popular music: at the Eastman School of Music, where he taught composition for two decades, he also taught a course in the history of rock. He now teaches
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• Carlyss, Gerald
  Studies: Juilliard School of Music ...ra from 1965 – 1967. He officially joined the Indiana University School of Music percussion faculty in 1988.
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• Samuels, Dave
  Studies: Boston University, Berklee College of Music <br/> ...llinois on October 9, 1948, Dave Samuels grew up in a family interested in music. Mostly self-taught on his signature vibraphone, he began playing drumset a
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• Kreiger, Arthur
  ...t of the Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust and the Aaron Copland Fund for Music. Kreiger and his wife Diane live on Moosup Pond.<ref>http://composers.com/a ==Works for Percussion==
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• Boosey & Hawkes, Inc.
  Tel. UK only: 0800 731 4778 (freephone for UK customers) <br> Tel. US/International: +44 (0)870 421 5453 (reduced rate number for US and international customers) <br>
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• Becker, Bob
  Studies: Eastman School of Music (B.M., M.M.), Wesleyan University ...ment of an extensive and eclectic repertoire of chamber and concerto works for percussion.
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• Fine, Vivian
  ...dissertations, two books have been published on Fine’s life and music: The Music of Vivian Fine, by the noted musicologist Heidi Von Gunden (Scarecrow Press ...he was perhaps the best-known performer of contemporary piano music in New York. She premiered works of Ives, Copland, Brant, Cowell, Rudhyar, and others,
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• Maggio, Robert
  Country: New Jersey, USA <br /> ...ue connection between the composer's "wondrously eclectic vocabulary" (New York Times) and the demands of a diverse body of commissions.
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• Rothman, Joel
  Country: Brooklyn, New York, <br /> ...many of which are among the most popular books used by teachers in private music studios as well as schools and universities worldwide.
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• Jarvinen, Arthur
  ...ange from contemporary chamber and experimental music to songwriting, surf music, electronics, improvisation and multimedia, and his creative output include ...k elucidates in music and words many of the problems of contemporary music for players of all instruments.
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• Farr, Gareth
  Country: Wellington, New Zealand <br /> Studies: Auckland University (B.M.1991), Eastman School of Music (M.M.1992)
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• Foss, Lukas
  Died: February 1, 2009, Manhattan, New York City, NY<br /> ...h Serge Koussevitzky during the summers from 1939 to 1943 at the Berkshire Music Center. He also studied composition with Paul Hindemith as a special studen
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