Timpani Tuning

Mervin Britton

General Info

Year: 1967
Edition: 1st Edition
Publisher: Belwin/Mills
Cost: Book Cost - $0.00   |   Supplemental Books - $0.00

Table of Contents

-Mechanics of Tuning
-Fundamental Pitch
-Introduction of Major Scales
-Major Scales
-Major Key Signatures
-Major Scales - Stepwise Exercises
-Intervals - Definition and Explanation
-Interval Chart
-Interval Performance Exercises - Major and Minor Second
-Major Third
-Minor Third
-Perfect Fourth
-Augmented Fourth
-Perfect Fifth
-Minor Sixth
-Major Sixth
-Minor Seventh
-Perfect Octave with Major Seventh & Minor Second
-Triads And Chords
-Building Major Triads
-Major Triads Exercises for One Kettle
-Major Triads and Chords for Two Kettles
-Melodic Minor Scales, Ascending
-Building Melodic Scales, Ascending
-Melodic Minor Scales, Stepwise Exercise
-Minor Triads and Chords
-Minor Triads for One Kettle
-Minor Triads for Two Kettles
-Harmonic Minor Scales
-Building Harmonic Minor Scales
-Harmonic Minor Scales - Stepwise Exercises
-Building pure minor scales
-Building melodic minor scales - Complete Form
-Complete Melodic minor Scale Exercises
-Relative Minor Scales
-Notation of Relative Pure Minor Scales
-Notation of Relative Harmonic Minor Scales
-Notation of Relative Melodic Minor Scales
-Chromatic Scale
-Building Chromatic Scales
-Diminished Triads
-Diminished Triad Exercises for One Kettle
-Diminished Triad Exercise For two Kettles
-Whole Tone Scale
-Whole Tone Scales - Stepwise Exercise
-Augmented Triads
-Augmented Triad Exercises For One Kettle
-Augmented Triad Exercises For Two Kettles
-Supplementary Melodies
-Changing Pitch During Rests

Reviews

Student Reviews

The Timpani Tuning book by Mervin Britton is a wonderful book that can help a percussionist have a better understanding of tuning and tuning changes of the timpani. At the start of the book, it goes into great detail about scales, key signatures and setting up on tuning the timpani. After it gives a lot of exercises to practice and work through. For every subject it gives details about what to do and then gives examples. I would suggest this book to a college student who is pursuing as a percussionist.
Review by Sage Thurston

Works for Percussion by this Author

Britton, Mervin. Timpani Tuning. Van Nuys, CA.: Belwin, 1967.