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• Percussion History
  ...he primitive societies. These instruments would comprise the Early Strata Instruments of the Paleolithic Era of the Stone Age. ...placing a platform over it. The most important contribution to percussion instruments of the Stone Age however, was the invention of the membranophone: the drum.
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• Actor, Lee
  ...ightly written. It has a style that is completely original … an incredible orchestral tour de force as written by an immensely talented composer.” The CD inclu ...he Year” classical CD by Classical 94.5/WNED in Buffalo, NY. A third CD of orchestral music, featuring Concerto for Alto Saxophone and Orchestra and Dance Rhapso
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• A table of noises
  [[Multiple Percussion]]<br> A percussion concerto in six movements, with five brief instrumental 'ghosts' interspers
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• TCL Grade 1 Orchestral Percussion
  Candidates taking a Orchestral Percussion exam are required to: * play one piece for each of [[Snare Drum]], [[Timpani]] and [[Tuned Percussion]], must not include the study pieces
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• Orchestral Percussion
  ...able to play, there are particular instruments that are frequently used in orchestral repertoire. This includes [[timpani]], [[snare drum]], [[bass drum]], [[xyl
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• Delecluse, Jacques
  ...87–99), and also as a friend, I have shared with him many great moments of percussion, of music, and of life during almost 30 years. I am very happy and proud of ...that Jacques Delécluse is alive and well, and still involved in music and percussion. Born in September of 1933, he is now retired from the Orchestre de Paris a
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• Peck, Russell
  ...ta, Milwaukee, etc., Britain's London Symphony and Royal Philharmonic, and orchestral performances at Lincoln Center and Kennedy Center, and in Berlin, Warsaw, B ...nds). His Peace Overture was among the first serious contemporary American orchestral works played in the People's Republic of China (Shanghai Symphony).
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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 ...Disorder (1988), the electroacoustic work Motility (revised 1986) and the orchestral works Amusement Park Suite (1986), National Park Suite (1991) and Symphony
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• Higdon, Jennifer
  ...emporary Classical music. Her works represent a wide range of genres, from orchestral to chamber, to wind ensemble, as well as vocal, choral and opera. Her music ...Chamber Players, a double percussion concerto for the Houston Symphony, an orchestral suite for the Made In America project, and a flute concerto for the Nationa
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• Conjurer: Concerto for Percussionist and String Orchestra
  First performed February 21, 2008, Evelyn Glennie, percussion, with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Marin Alsop, conductor; Pittsburgh When asked to compose a percussion concerto, my only reaction was horror.
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• Freeze, Tracy
  ...r Orchestra, Reno Pops Orchestra, the Reno Percussion Ensemble, the Oregon Percussion Ensemble and various other professional and university orchestras. ...nist Charles Dowd. Recently, Freeze has authored and created a new online percussion database title TEKPercussion Database at www.tekpercussion.com.
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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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• 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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• Fink, Siegfried
  ...s recognized as an important figure in the development of the professional percussion scene in Germany after World War II. ...k and Hannover, he attained a permanent teaching position for timpanis and percussion at the Hochschule für Musik Würzburg. In the year 1974, he was promoted t
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• Bodine, G. Bradley
  ...versity/college percussion ensembles to write a concerto for marimba and a percussion ensemble of six percussionists. ...red a finalist position in the National Orchestral Association's New Music Orchestral Project. He was awarded Indiana Arts Commission Individual Artist Projects
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• Chatman, Stephen
  ...rystal, Skylark, Arsis, and Frederick Harris Music Celebration Series. His orchestral works, commissioned by the Vancouver, Toronto, Edmonton, Windsor, and Madis ...oned by the Vancouver Symphony, was one of 11 works short-listed from 1160 orchestral entries from 63 countries in the 2001 BBC Masterprize international competi
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• Kos, Bozidar
  ...fully crafted, harmonically sensitive complexity. Working predominantly in orchestral and chamber music genres, Kos composes music that investigates relationship ...nds Australian National Music Critics' Awards , including 'Best Australian Orchestral Work' and 'Best Musical Work Written by a Composer Resident in New South Wa
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• Rouse, Christopher
  Christopher Rouse is one of America's most prominent composers of orchestral music. Winner of the 1993 Pulitzer Prize in Music for his Trombone Concerto ...chamber and ensemble works, the composer is best known for his mastery of orchestral writing. His music has been played by nearly every major orchestra in the U
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• Orchestral Repertoire for the Tambourine, Triangle & Castanets
  Series ‏ : ‎ [[Orchestral Repertoire Compilations]] <br/> ...eles Philharmonic. [[Raynor Carroll]]'s collections of standard percussion orchestral repertoire excerpts have become some of the most sought after books for per
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• Modern School for Snare Drum
  ...s and giving playing examples. The back cover provides the name of several instruments in four different languages, stating that showing performance terms would b ...ided in their formatting since they contain issues percussions run into in orchestral settings.
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