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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>
  6 KB (970 words) - 00:10, 26 April 2018
• The Beatles for Glockenspiel
  5. Back In The U.S.S.R. <br/> 10. Day Tripper <br/>
  2 KB (307 words) - 02:48, 21 September 2023
• The Beatles for Bells / Glockenspiel
  Back In The U.S.S.R.<br/> Day Tripper<br/>
  2 KB (308 words) - 00:57, 25 January 2022
• 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
  7 KB (1,222 words) - 16:29, 31 May 2019
• 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>
  4 KB (666 words) - 04:31, 1 July 2023
• 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
  3 KB (417 words) - 00:17, 25 July 2023
• 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
  9 KB (1,384 words) - 16:36, 31 May 2019
• 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
  6 KB (992 words) - 17:31, 24 August 2013
• 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
  6 KB (880 words) - 01:22, 1 February 2022
• 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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