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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
  6 KB (838 words) - 22:22, 15 December 2013
• 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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• 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
  5 KB (819 words) - 23:50, 10 November 2012
• 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
  6 KB (824 words) - 03:40, 5 August 2013
• 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
  6 KB (1,030 words) - 13:55, 14 July 2018
• 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
  12 KB (1,813 words) - 16:21, 31 May 2019
• 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
  6 KB (845 words) - 22:35, 30 November 2021
• 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
  7 KB (1,179 words) - 18:45, 5 December 2019
• 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
  7 KB (1,007 words) - 00:58, 27 April 2014
• 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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