Download or read book The History and Development of the Percussion Orchestra written by Wesley Brant Parker and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This lack of scholarly writing on the subject provides an exceptional opportunity to contribute to the development of documentation, which will focus upon the aforementioned literature as well as scholarly articles from music education journals and percussion journals such as Percussive Notes (a magazine begun in 1973 dedicated exclusively to scholarly writings about percussion). In addition to this, most other references to a PO are found within the professional titles of performing ensembles or compositions. An integral part of the research process involved interviews with percussion teachers who have significant experience in the development of the PO. These include Richard Gipson of Texas Christian University (formerly Director of the Oklahoma University Percussion Orchestra), John Parks of Florida State University, Blake Tyson of the University of Central Arkansas, Brian West of Texas Christian University, and James Campbell of the University of Kentucky, all of whom have performed with, administered, and/or directed award-winning Percussion Orchestras. They have thus become resources of valuable information that has gone largely undocumented beyond available audio recordings of their specific performing groups. The interviews shed light on the development of the PO and provide insight not only about the current trends and significant leaders of this genre, but also about the direction that the PO might take in the future. Each interview consisted of a predetermined set of questions that encouraged each respondent to define and elaborate on the concept of the PO. This method facilitated comparisons among responses, while giving freedom for elaboration on issues pertinent to the study. Because each pedagogue's viewpoint is unique, additional responses are also noted within the study.
Download or read book The Role of Turkish Percussion in the History and Development of the Orchestral Percussion Section written by D. Doran Bugg and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Percussion Instruments and Their History written by James Blades and published by Kahn & Averill. This book was released on 2020-12-31 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For many years, James Blades's famous book has been referred to as the percussionist's bible. It is established as the definitive reference work on the subject. Last updated by the author in 2005 and now back in print, this extended edition includes two additional chapters. The first covers the rise of the solo percussionist by the world's leading practitioner, Dame Evelyn Glennie who also contributes a new Foreword, while recent developments in orchestral percussion are covered by Neil Percy, Head of Timpani and Percussion at the Royal Academy of Music and Principal Percussionist of the London Symphony Orchestra.
Download or read book Percussion Instruments and Their History written by James Blades and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Timpani and Percussion written by Jeremy Montagu and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of percussion instruments from the Old Stone Age to the present day. Jeremy Montagu, a performer, historian, and curator of musical instruments, discusses common and uncommon percussion instruments from all parts of the world, tracing their development and use through the ages and across cultures.
Download or read book The Historical Development of the Percussion Ensemble written by Cornelis Genemans and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Artful Noise written by Thomas Siwe and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2020-07-27 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twentieth-century composers created thousands of original works for solo percussion and percussion ensemble. Concise and ideal for the classroom, Artful Noise offers an essential and much-needed survey of this unique literature. Percussionist Thomas Siwe organizes and analyzes the groundbreaking musical literature that arose during the twentieth century. Focusing on innovations in style and the evolution of the percussion ensemble, Siwe offers a historical overview that connects the music to scoring techniques, new instrumentation and evolving technologies as well as world events. Discussions of representative pieces by seminal composers examines the resources a work requires, its construction, and how it relates to other styles that developed during the same period. In addition, Siwe details the form and purpose of many of the compositions while providing background information on noteworthy artists. Each chapter is supported with musical examples and concludes with a short list of related works specifically designed to steer musicians and instructors alike toward profitable explorations of composers, styles, and eras.
Download or read book The History and Use of Percussion Instruments in Orchestration written by Edgar Brand Gangware and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Theory and Composition of Percussion Music written by Geary Larrick and published by Edwin Mellen Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Larrick shares his knowledge of the theory and composition of percussion music. In the first section, more than a dozen brief entries address such topics as music education's treatment of drummers and the notation of Western music. In the second section, Larrick presents an annotated bibliography of music theory books found in the University Library at the U. of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. The third section contains bibliographical references for a wide range of materials relating to percussion. A life-long performer, Larrick is the author of a number of scholarly books on percussion. Annotation : 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).
Download or read book The History and Development of the Front Ensemble in Drum Corps International written by Lane Wendell Summerlin and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This document is an examination of the history and development of the front ensemble in Drum Corps International (DCI.) The front ensemble can be defined as the group of stationary percussion instruments and electronic instruments that are a part of a marching music ensemble. Today the front ensemble is a major part of every drum and bugle corps, and plays a large role in the “pageantry arts.” This study provides the first known documentation of the front ensemble’s history. It will include discussion of the development of performance, instrumentation, and the evolution of the musical function of the front ensemble. This document also includes a detailed catalogue of the instrumentation for every front ensemble competing in Division I and World Class DCI Finals. This document will be beneficial to those seeking to learn more about the front ensemble, marching percussion, or marching music in general. It will serve as a reference for students, educators, and historians. This study may also serve as a resource for further research of marching music and percussion.
Download or read book The Development of the Percussion Section of the Modern Orchestra written by Glenn Cliffe Bainum and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Timpani written by Edmund Addison Bowles and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume represents a unique iconographical and documentary history of the timpani. Combining a wealth of pictorial material with extensive written sources, it offers a rich and comprehensive survey of the instrument's history from the middle ages to the present. And in so doing it fills a gap of long standing in the published literature of kettledrums by providing for the first time a combination of visual and descriptive evidence. Presented here is a wide-ranging pictorial lode drawn from a variety of sources-for example, astronomical clocks with their instrumental automata; paintings; baroque organ cases topped by angel-musicians;engravings from books describing court festivals; prints and drawings; decorative etched glassware and inlaid tables; wood carvings; and photographs. Written references reflect a wide and fascinating panoply of descriptions concerning the construction, musical contexts and performance techniques of the timpani-for example, eyewitness accounts chronicling the role of instruments at various historical events; archival documents dealing with payments to musicians or the make-up of instrumental ensembles; regulations concerning court musicians; and even patent specifications. In addition, a prefatory chapter presents a detailed, succinct overview of the history, orchestral role and performance practices of the timpani, including numerous illustrative musical examples. A chart depicting representative milestones in the music for kettledrums highlights such works as the first published opera featuring timpani, the first major composition for two pairs of drums, music with unusual tunings, very high or very low notes demanding unusually small or large instruments, unique playing techniques, such as using the fingers, coins, a wire brush, etc., and the key examples of music requiring multiple timpani and two or more players in various configurations. In short, The Timpani: A History in Pictures and Documents is a fascinating and most unusual book of interest not only to performing musicians, teachers and scholars alike, but one which provides the general reader or music-lover with a glimpse into the world of a hitherto neglected musical instrument.
Download or read book Percussion written by Roger Thomas and published by . This book was released on 2002-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A discussion of percussion instruments. It covers: the place of the instruments within the orchestra; how the sounds are produced; how the instruments work and the sounds they make; and the history and development of the instruments. The Soundbites series has been produced to help children develop a greater understanding of the orchestra and its sections, instruments and the sounds made by the instruments. The series also provides information on how these instruments and sounds are used outside the orchestral context.
Download or read book The Collegiate Percussion Ensemble written by Haley Jo Nutt and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation provides a comprehensive history of the American collegiate percussion ensemble and assesses how institutional and gendered practices have influenced the size, style, and aesthetic of the genre's repertoire in educational institutions. It identifies four stylistic periods-1950 to 1980, 1980 to 2000, 2000 to 2015, and 2015 to the present day-and details the efforts of Paul Price, Richard Gipson, Brian West, and Julie Hill, all educational entrepreneurs who implemented changes that affected the collegiate percussion ensemble at different points in its history. More specifically, this project encapsulates my investigation of the formation, development, and contemporary status of the percussion orchestra (PO), which I argue is the first commoditized brand within the collegiate percussion ensemble realm. First popularized by Richard Gipson and the University of Oklahoma percussion program in the early 1980s, this tonal, symphonic, and virtuosic approach to percussion ensemble performance has undergone various changes in style and function in the twenty-first century in order to maintain its hegemonic authority within the percussion community and academia. Through a combination of score analysis, archival research, interviews, ethnographic studies, and reflections on my experiences as a trained percussionist and student of Gipson and West, I argue that the percussion orchestra enjoyed significant cultural capital in the early 2010s, as demonstrated by PO works of the period that exhibited a masculine habitus centered on exhibitionism and extreme virtuosic technique. Although the medium's primary supporters, namely American white men, still wield significant institutional power today, the ethnographic research I have conducted over the last year suggests that collegiate groups are developing a greater interest in the accessibility and marketability of their percussion ensemble programming, allowing a wider range of compositional voices an opportunity to contribute to the genre. Additionally, the broader percussion community is striving to become more diverse and inclusive as evidenced by the Percussive Arts Society's newfound commitment to committees, competitions, scholarships, and other projects that celebrate the breadth of the global percussive art form. Because the aesthetic of the masculinized percussion orchestra is antithetical to these newly emerging ideologies, I believe that its hegemony within collegiate percussion ensemble practices may be threatened in the coming decades.
Download or read book Biographical Essays on Twentieth century Percussionists written by Geary Larrick and published by Lewiston, N.Y. : E. Mellen Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This biography in the discipline of percussion music research, contains a considerable amount of contemporary detail regarding the professional careers of many important percussionists who have held leading positions since the early-20th century. It also includes information in the areas of symphonic and jazz music, including major composers and timpanists. The text is written in an accessible style by a percussionist who is acquainted with a considerable number of the biographical subjects. Among subjects included are Vida Chenoweth, Lionel Hampton, William Ludwig, Jan Pustjens, and 76 others.
Download or read book Percussion Ensemble Literature written by Doug Overmier and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-11-21 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A list of over 100 most-performed works for 3 or more percussionists. In two sections, the book includes the development of the percussion ensemble in the US and in section two: composers, instrumentation, related compositions and loads of relevat material.
Download or read book Development of the Percussion Ensemble Through the Contributions of the Latin American Composers Amadeo Rold n Jos Ard vol Carlos Ch vez and Alberto Ginastera written by John Richard Hall and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: Four Latin American composers - Amadeo Roldán, José Ardévol, Carlos Chávez and Alberto Ginastera - made significant contributions to the development of the percussion ensemble during the years 1930 to 1964. Roldán's Rítmicas No. 5 and No. 6 (1930) are the first compositions for percussion ensemble and created the percussion ensemble genre. Ardévol's three percussion ensemble compositions - Estudio en forma de preludio y fuga (1933), Suite para instrumentos de percusión (1934) and Preludio a 11 (1942) - are among the earliest of the genre. Chávez's Toccata para instrumentos de percusión (1942) is one of the most frequently performed and recorded works for percussion ensemble, and his Tambuco (1964) has also been successful. Ginastera's Cantata para América mágica for dramatic soprano and percussion orchestra (1960) pushes the boundaries of percussion ensemble compositional techniques with its immense instrumentation of 53 percussion instruments. The strong influence these compositions had on the developing percussion ensemble genre is evident in the instrumentation and compositional techniques employed by other composers of the genre, including Edgard Varèse, Henry Cowell, Lou Harrison, and John Cage. This influence has been overlooked by current music scholarship, and in the case of Roldán, scholars have marginalized or criticized his achievements. In addressing the criticisms of Roldán and presenting overlooked information concerning Ardévol, Chávez, and Ginastera, this document will outline the contributions of these four composers.
