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• Percussion History
  ...other purposes, such as bows and shields for battle, began to replace body percussion. After a successful hunt, a hunter would place the bows in front of him wi ...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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• 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 ...piano part. The play was performed under the auspices of the Federal Music Project at the Central Manhattan Music Center, but manuscript sources for it have n
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• Harada, Keiko
  ...1989. Since 2000, she has chaired the executive committee of SOUND GEAR, a project bringing together musicians from various parts of world focusing on theatri ...as well as educational project for young composers. The latest educational project was in Stanford Univ.and California Univ,Berkeley(’09) supported by The J
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• Agócs, Kati
  ...y The Jebediah Foundation for Lorelei Ensemble and Boston Modern Orchestra Project. The Boston Globe named her album The Debrecen Passion one of its Top Ten C ...Modern Orchestra Project |date= 2010 |publisher=[[Boston Modern Orchestra Project]] |accessdate=11 April 2015</ref><ref>http://junoawards.ca/nominees/ | tit
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• Samuels, Dave
  ...that he met David Friedman and together they altered the course of mallet percussion history. ...(steel pan), Samuels also included Mark Walker (drums), Pernell Saturnino (percussion), Oscar Stagnaro (bass), and Dario Eskenazi (piano). [These same musicians
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• About Tek Percussion Database
  ...ial focus of the project. There are both long and short term plans for the project. ...he database. We will find a cross-section of people within and outside the percussion community to test the database for functionality, usability and usefulness.
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• Acknowledgements
  ...oviding two grant opportunities and additional resources to help fund this project.<br> ...Percussion Solo Literature]] books. These are invaluable resources for the percussion world as it has collected thousands of composers and compositions up until
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• Hughes, Gordon
  ...o becoming the first person in Australia to receive a Licentiate degree in percussion performance from Trinity College, London. After completing his undergraduat ...tralian Music Prize 2005 and was followed up in 2011 with the SHIFT CD-DVD project.
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• Hohner
  ...r Percussion.” I had a flash vision of a stage full of percussion, a large percussion orchestra – sections of [[marimba]]s and [[vibraphone]]s – and lots of ...ce that I would write at least one movement of this work, using all of the percussion forces available at the time at Central Michigan University. It is offered
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• At the Dawn of War
  ...desire to see this project come to fruition. Focusing the direction of the project became increasingly difficult as the piece began to morph into something co ==Works for Percussion by this Composer==
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• Metzger, Jon
  ...ls Project; Baron Tymas’ Insight at Midnight; Jack Wilkins’ Blue and Green Project (with Danny Gottlieb); Ira Wiggins’ When Freedom Swings; and the NC Jazz ...z Player Magazine, and Sticks & Mallets Magazine. Dozens of his works for percussion are published by C. Alan Publications, and his 397-page method book, The Ar
  7 KB (1,075 words) - 04:05, 3 July 2023
• Whitmarsh, Jamie
  ...ensembles Duo Rodinia and What Is Noise. Jamie holds Bachelor's degrees in Percussion Performance and Music Composition from Oklahoma City University and is fini ...and the Piedmont Percussion Project Summer Camps. He also works as a wind/percussion arranger with various marching bands.
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• Colgrass, Michael
  ...ky series, and numerous ballet, opera and jazz ensembles. He organized the percussion sections for Gunther Schuller’s recordings and concerts, as well as for p ...—and teachers—how to write music using graphics. In April of 2009 he did a project with the Middleton Regional High School in Nova Scotia, where high school s
  7 KB (933 words) - 00:24, 28 June 2023
• Benson, Warren
  ...t for the Detroit Symphony, Benson was captivated by the variety of sounds percussion instruments can produce and used these in compositions for winds ensemble a ...l Colony, was elected to the National Band Association Academy of Wind and Percussion Arts in 1988, and the Percussive Arts Society Hall of Fame in 2003. Benson
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• Beck, John H.
  ...as Professor Emeritus of Percussion and teaches a class in The History of Percussion ...rid, Spain; National Youth Orchestra, Seville, Spain and the International Percussion Workshops in Croatia. He has also toured Russia with 14 percussionists from
  7 KB (1,013 words) - 23:25, 12 October 2023
• Laurello, Michael
  ...ion for the GVSU New Music Ensemble's 2018 Listening to Our National Parks project. <!--== Books for Percussion ==
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• Gubaidulina, Sofia
  ...onale Bachakademie Stuttgart project to write a piece for the Passion 2000 project in commemoration of Johann Sebastian Bach. Her contribution was the Johanne == Works for Percussion ==
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• Brant, Henry
  ...for three women’s choruses, a children’s chorus, woodwinds, six trumpets, percussion, harp, piano, ten violins and organ was commissioned by Present Music and c In 2008, Brant completed his textbook on orchestration: Textures & Timbres, a project started in 1950.
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• Cameron Sinclair
  ...bridge Music Festival in association with scientists working on the Genome Project and has devised projects for the RCM, RAM, Tate Gallery, Royal National The <!--== Books for Percussion ==
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• Piece Percussionique No.5
  ...see Piece Percussionique No. 1. This is the fifth of my on-going series of percussion ensemble pieces. Besides the microduets, it is my only other series. (Well, ...objects, and yell; hence the theatrical/visual excitement explicit in the project title. This finale thereby completes the opposites of theater versus music,
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