| Contents |
Section I. Bibliographic essays in percussion. Frogs / Keiko Abe -- Michi for marimba / Keiko Abe -- Modern Japanese marimba pieces 2 / Keiko Abe, editor -- Suite for marimba / David L. Ameele -- "Appendix II: Ensembles and performers" / Geary Larrick -- Concerto for marimba and orchestra / James Basta -- Practical approach to the drum set / John Beck -- Jazz variants / John Beck -- Sonata for timpani / John Beck -- "Bells" / Geary Larrick -- Three dances / Warren Benson -- Four pieces for timpani / John Bergamo -- Collection for marimba or vibraharp / Jose Bethancourt -- Early percussion instruments / James Blades and Jeremy Montagu -- Abmiram / Dean Blair -- Antique musical instruments and their players / Filippo Bonanni -- Raspberries / Charles Boone -- Black and white rag / George Botsford -- Harry A. Bower system / Harry A. Bower -- Harry Breuer's Mallet solo collection / Harry Breuer -- Stylistic solos for timpani / Mervin Britton -- Alone / Tom Brown -- Celebrating Christmas with percussion / Thomas A. Brown -- Drum fun / Thomas Brown -- Gift of Modupe / Thomas A. Brown -- "Samba sonic" / Tom Brown -- "A singing song" / Gary Burton -- Four mallet studies / Gary Burton -- Amores / John Cage -- Raga no. 1 / William L. Cahn -- Marimba capers / Ernest O. Caneva -- Star dust / Hoagy Carmichael -- Eight pieces for four timpani / Elliott Carter -- Music for bass drum / Barney Childs -- Polonaise militaire / Frederic Chopin -- "Study 32" / Anthony J. Cirone -- "Coconut shells," / edited by John H. Beck -- "Coconut shells," / edited by Joseph Adato and George Judy -- Inventions on a motive / Michael Colgrass -- Ostinato pianissimo / Henry Cowell -- Concertino for marimba / Paul Creston -- Drums -- The Belwin band builder / Wayne Douglas -- "The drum" / James Blades -- Chacone / A. Durand -- Raggedy ragtime rags / Randall Eyles -- Xylophone rags of George Hamilton Green / Randy Eyles, editor -- Theme and variations / John Floyd -- "Dampening: Etude 46" / David Friedman -- "Exercise 2" / Carl E. Gardner -- Gardner modern method for the timpani / Carl E. Gardner -- Modern school for snare drum / Morris Goldenberg -- Modern school for xylophone, marimba, vibraphone / Morris Goldenberg -- Gitano / Alice Gomez -- Rainbows / Alice Gomez -- Modern method for tympani / Saul Goodman -- Xylophone rags / George Hamilton Green -- Cortege / Steve Grimo -- "The Lydian-augmented scale" / Dan Haerle -- Hamp / Lionel Hampton, edited by James Haskins -- Drum method / Haskell W. Harr -- Intermediate grade marimba -- Xylophone solos / Haskell W. Harr -- Planet drum / Mickey Hart and Fredric Lieberman -- Combo-orks, for small dance bands, C-book / Paul Hill -- Timpani player's orchestral repertoire / Fred D. Hinger -- "Etude 33" / Richard Hochrainer -- Developing four mallet technique / Marj Holmgren -- Musical instrument design / Bart Hopkin -- Contemplation / Murray Houllif -- Mallet music / Murray Houllif -- Tranquility / Murray Houllif -- La Mi La Sol / Heinrich Isaac, arranged by Norman Weinberg -- Sidecar / Thomas Janson -- Moonchild/In your quiet place / Keith Jarrett -- Ethos / Jack Jenny -- Music for marimba, volume II / Art Jolliff -- Music for marimba, volume III / Art Jolliff -- Fantasy on a raga / Ron Keezer -- "Lesson VI"/Modern mallet method / Phil Kraus -- Concerto for timpani / Richard Kvistad -- Adagio with accompaniment / Geary Larrick -- Twenty-six contemporary snare drum duets / Alexander Lepak -- "Standard marching taps and street beats" / William F. Ludwig -- "Back-sticking" / Mitch Markovich -- Aragonaise / Jules Massenet -- Declaration, song and dance / Kristen Shiner McGuire -- Day of percussion handbook / Kristen Shiner McGuire and Steve Houghton -- "Lesson 10" / Thomas McMillan -- Meredith Music Publications catalog -- "Time for marimba" / Minoru Miki -- Music of the day / Bill Molenhof -- Bolero: Spanish dance no. 5 / Moszkowsky -- Etude in C major / Clair Omar Musser -- Etude, opus 6, number 8 / Clair Omar Musser -- Master solo arrangements / Clair Omar Musser -- Prelude, op. 11, no. 7 / Clair Omar Musser -- NACWPI Journal, XLVI/1 -- NDA Magazine, 8/3 -- Steve Weiss music catalog -- Method of movement for marimba / Leigh Howard Stevens -- Nr. 9 Zyklus / Karlheinz Stockhausen -- Two Mexican dances / Gordon Stout -- March and polonaise / Julius Tausch and Percival R. Kirby -- "Vibraphone"/The drummer: Man / Gordon B. Peters -- Percussionist's guide to orchestral excerpts / David W. Vincent -- Musical studies for the intermediate snare drummer / Garwood Whaley -- "Technical studies" / Garwood Whaley -- "Etude de ballet no. 1" / Harvey S. Whistler -- "Rolling in rhythm" / Charles S. Wilcoxon -- Section II. Essays on music -- Brief history of the symphony -- Review of percussion in Wisconsin -- Analyzing and listening to music -- Art and craft of publishing -- Band music and style -- Chopin for marimba -- Consequential trivia in music history -- Environment, sound and wind chimes -- Ethnicity in music -- Good, the bad or the indifferent -- Hail, Toronto! -- Keyboard percussion arrangements -- Multicultural music -- Multicultural youth concert -- Multiculturalism in contemporary music -- Music and sociology -- Music composition for percussion -- Music for persons with disability -- Music in Malaysia -- Music in space -- Philosophy in education -- Postulates -- Snare drum -- Timpani -- Xylophone -- Section III. Scholarship in music -- American drumming in the nineteenth century -- Ability, analysis and conducting -- Analysis of percussion -- Becker: Lahara -- Kettledrum performance -- Music and education -- Ethics, copyright and bibliography -- 20th century African-American percussionists -- 20th century percussionists of Canada and Europe -- 20th century women percussionists. |
| Abstract |
Section I is more than a hundred brief essays headed with bibliographic entries, covering aspects of contemporary percussion music. Section II is more than twenty essays on a broad selection of subjects having to do with music ranging from the symphony to the xylophone. Section III is several essays of musical scholarship covering analysis, biography, education, history, pedagogy and performance. |
