Orchestral Percussion
Performance Practice
Baroque to Contemporary[TOP]
Benvenga, Nancy. "Mozartean drumming." Music and Musicians
19/10 (June 1971): 30, 32
Benvenga, Nancy. Timpani and the Timpanist's Art: Musical and Technical
Development in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. Goteborg, Sweden:
Goteborg University, Dept. of Musicology, 1979. Series: Studies from Goteborg
University, Dept. of Musicology: 3. [Originally the author's Ph.D. dissertation
in musicology]
Bowles, Edmund A. "The double, double, double beat of the thundering
drum: the timpani in early music." Early Music 19/3 (August
1991): 419-435
Bowles, Edmund A. "Nineteenth-century innovations in the use and
construction of the timpani." Journal of the American Musical Instrument
Society Vol. 5-6 (1979-1980): 74-143. Reprinted in Percussionist
[Percussive Notes Research Edition] 19/2 (March 1982): 6-75
Bowles, Edmund A. "On using the proper tympani in the performance
of Baroque music." Journal of the American Musical Instrument Society
2 (1976): 56-68
Brown, Harold J., Jr. "Orchestral timpani parts: To change or not
to change?" NACWPI Journal 20/2 (Winter 1971-1972): 27-28, 33,
43
Caldwell, Titcomb. "Baroque court and military trumpets and kettledrums:
technique and music." The Galpin Society Journal No. 9 (June
1956): 56-81
Charlton, David. "Salieri's timpani." Musical Times
112/154 (October 1971): 961-962
Cirone, Anthony J. "Interpreting the symphonic percussion part."
Percussive Notes 33/5 (October 1995): 52
Clark, Owen. "Percussion in the opera orchestra of the 17th and
18th centuries." Percussive Notes 5/3 (1967): 11-14
Cooper, John M. "Towards a reconsideration of J. S. Bach's writing
for the timpani." Percussive Notes 27/3 (Spring 1989): 44-50
De Ponte, Niel. "Janissary music and its influence on the use of
percussion in the classical orchestra." Woodwind World, Brass and
Percussion 15/4 (1976): 44ff
Hochrainer, Richard. "Beethoven's use of the timpani." Percussionist
14/3 (Summer 1977): 66-71
Hochrainer, Richard. "The Viennese timpani and percussion school."
Percussionist 17/2 (Winter 1980): 88-102
Hong, Sherman. "Percussion in the orchestra: 1750-1850." Percussionist
8/4 (Summer 1971): 115-129
Jewell, David J. "Timpani in the late 18th century." Percussive
Notes 24/2 (January 1986): 68-69
Levine, David. "Percussion instruments and performance practices
in Beethoven's music." Percussionist 15/1 (Fall 1977): 1-6
Longyear, Rey M. "Percussion in the 18th century orchestra."
Percussionist 2/1-2 (February 1965): 1-5
Mies, Paul. "Die Bedeutung der Pauke in den Werken Ludwig van Beethovens."
["The significance of the timpani in the works of Ludwig van Beethoven."]
Beethoven Jahrbuch 8 (1975): 49-71
Moore, James L. "How Turkish janizary band music started our modern
percussion section." Percussionist 2/4 (Spring 1965): 7-13
Ormrod, Nicholas. "Authentic performance practice in Rossini opera."
Percussive Notes 34/1 (February 1996): 48, 50-53
Pollart, Gene. "The use and innovations of percussion in the works
of J. S. Bach and Handel." Percussionist 13/3 (Spring 1976):
75-81
Powley, Harrison. "Some observations on Jean Georges Kastner's Methode
complete et raisonnee de timbales (ca. 1845)." Percussionist
17/2 (Winter 1980): 63-74
Powley, Harrison. "Two little-known 19th century timpani tutors:
Suggestions toward more authentic performance practices." Liberal
and Fine Arts Review 7 (Spring 1979): 76-91
Press, Arthur. "Notational problems." Modern Percussionist
Part I: 2/3 (June 1986): 26; Part II: 2/4 (September-November 1986): 26-27
Rack, John E. "A closer look at the timpani parts in the symphonic
music of the early 19th century." Percussive Notes 28/2 (Winter
1990): 51-54
Remsen, Eric. "Editing the timpani parts of the orchestral music
of the 18th and 19th centuries." Percussive Notes 21/2 (January
1983): 50-59
Stoddard, Hope. "Percussion in our orchestras." Percussive
Notes 29/1 (October 1990): 71-75
Titcomb, Caldwell. "Baroque court and military trumpets and kettledrums:
technique and music." The Galpin Society Journal 9 (June 1956):
56-81
Wilson, C. B. "Some remarks about multiple timpani and Berlioz."
The Instrumentalist 28 (November 1973): 55-56
DISSERTATIONS[TOP]
Gangware, Edgar Brand, Jr. "The history and use of percussion instruments
in orchestration." Ph.D. dissertation (Music Theory). Evanston, IL:
Northwestern University, 1962. 292 pp. Dissertation Abstracts 23/12-A, p.
4707. University Microfilms International order no. AAD63-03409
Gauthreaux, Guy Gregoire, II. "Orchestral snare drum performance:
an historical study." D.M.A. Dissertation. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State
University and Agricultural and Mechanical College, 1989. 240 p. Dissertation
Abstracts 50/08A, p. 2418. University Microfilms International order no.
MDW90-02142
Mueller, Erwin Carl. "A timpani method based on the performance
practices of Edward M. Metzenger with an application of these practices
to the symphonies of Beethoven and Brahms." D.A. Dissertation. Muncie,
IN: Ball State University, 1976. 439 p. Dissertation Abstracts 37/10-A,
p. 6132. University Microfilms International order no. AAD77-08659
Tanner, Peter Hyde. "Timpani and percussion writing in the works
of Hector Berlioz." Ph.D. dissertation (Musicology). Washington, D.C.:
The Catholic University of America, 1967. 289 p. Dissertation Abstracts
28/07-A, p. 2722. University Microfilms International order no. AAD67-17,122.
Wacker, Jonathan. "Interpretation for the orchestral percussionist:
Ten professional perspectives." D.M. dissertation. Bloomington, IN:
Indiana University, 1994. 171 p.
OTHER MATERIALS[TOP]
Carse, Adam. The History of Orchestration. London: K. Paul, Trench,
Trubner, 1925.
Carse, Adam. The Orchestra in the XVIIIth Century. Cambridge,
England: W. Heffer, 1951; New York: Broude Bros., 1969
Del Mar, Norman. Anatomy of the Orchestra. Berkeley: University
of California Press, 1981. pp. 339 429 [ISBN 520-04500-9, LCCN 81-11559]
Koury, Daniel J. Orchestral Performance Practices in the Nineteenth
Century: Size, Proportions, and Seating. Ann Arbor, MI: UMI Research
Press, 1986. (Studies in musicology, no. 85) pp. 101-104 [see also index] | 
