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Multiple Percussion History and Technique

LITERATURE AND NOTATION

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"Questions & Answers." Percussionist 1/4 (April 1964): 15-16 [Response to a question about modern works which use non-traditional notation and those which require multiple percussion performance. The answer cites works by Bartok, Stravinsky, Walton, Shapey, Kotonski, Nono, and Berger.]

Adams, Daniel. "The compositonal use of timbre in selected solo multiple percussion works." Interface 21/2 (1992): 117-134

Adams, Daniel Clifford. "Striking implement and surface area specification in unaccompanied multiple percussion solos: its compositional significance." D.M.A. dissertation. Urbana-Champaign: University of Illinois. 1985.

Applebaum, Terry Lee. "A comprehensive performance project in percussion literature with an essay comprised of multi-percussion performance problems as found in selected contemporary works, with original etudes relevant to those problems." D.M.A. dissertation. Iowa City: University of Iowa, 1978.

Baldwin, John. "Mutipercusson in chamber and solo music." Percussionist 5/3 (March 1968): 286-289 [Includes plans for building concert tom toms as used by composer Michael Colgrass.]

Cheadle, Richard Dean."A bibliography of multimedia solo percussion works with an analysis of performance problems." D.A. dissertation, Greeley: University of Northern Colorado, 1983

Feldstein, Saul. "Multiple percussion playing." The Instrumentalist 23/3 (October 1968): 68-71

George, Ronald. "Research into new areas of multiple-percussion performance and composition." Percussionist 12/3 (Spring 1975): 110-131

Kettle, Rupert. "Multi-percussion spellings." Percussionist 6/2 (December 1968): 52-54 [Notation techniques for multi-percussion compositions.]

Lambert, James William. "Multiple percussion performance problems as illustrated in five different works composed by Stockhausen, Smith Brindle, Colgrass, Dahl, and Kraft between 1959 and 1967." D.M.A. dissertation. Norman: University of Oklahoma, 1983.

Leach, Joel. "The use of symbols in multiple percussion." Brass and Percussion 1/2 (March 1973): 7-9, 25

Payson, Al. "Multiple-percussion at the school level." Ludwig Drummer 8/1 (Spring 1968): 12-13

Poole, Don Walter. "An annotated listing of selected multiple percussion solos from the University Interscholastic League prescribed music list." M.M.Ed. dissertation. Beaumont, TX: Lamar University, 1990.

Preston, Andrew C. "Multi-percussion instrumental solo literature; Its availability and use in teaching the high school percussionist." NACWPI Journal 19/2 (Winter 1970-71): 15-22, 27

Press, Arthur. "Multiple parts." Modern Percussionist 2/2 (March-May 1986): 46-47 [Multiple parts in orchestral literature, with examples from Bartok, Hindemith, and Shostakovich.]

Udow, Michael. "Visual correspondence between notation systems and instrument configurations." Percussionist [Percussive Notes Research Edition] 18/2 (Winter 1981): 15-29

HISTORY

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Cook, Gary. Teaching Percussion. New York: Schirmer, 1988. pp. 102-114 [Includes brief history, discussion of notation systems, short studies and etudes, and a bibliography of studies and solos.]

Spencer, Sue. "Development of multiple percussion in chamber, orchestral, and ensemble literature." [College research paper.] Kansas City: University of Missouri. URL: http://cctr.umkc.edu/user/sspencer/Multi.html

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