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Timpani History and DevelopmentAverignos, Gerassimos. Lexikon der Pauke. Frankfurt am Main: Das Musikinstrument, 1964 Benvenga, Nancy. Timpani and the Timpanist's Art: Musical and Technical Evolution in the 19th and 20th Centuries. Göteborg, Sweden: Gothenburg University, 1979. Studies from Göteborg University, Dept. of Musicology: 3. Blades, James. Percussion Instruments and Their History. Westport, CT: Bold Strummer, 1992 revised edition Blades, James. "Timpani." In: The New Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments. London: Macmillan, 1984. Vol. 3, pp. 586-597 Blades, James, and Jeremy Montagu. Early Percussion Instruments from the Middle Ages to the Baroque. London: Oxford University Press, 1976. Early Music series: 2. 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. "The kettledrum." In: Encyclopedia of Percussion, edited by John H. Beck. New York: Garland, 1995. pp. 201-226. Abstract: Presents a short history of the timpani from ca. 1500 onward as well as a detailed discussion of the various types of 19th- and early-20th-c. machine drums and their construction. Also included is an overview of the evolution of the size and shape of instruments, their skins (or &laqno;heads»), and sticks and their coverings (wood, leather, flannel, sponge, felt). An appendix lists milestones in the music for kettledrums with information on date, title, composer, and drum scoring (number of drums and their sizes, tunings, types of mallets, solo passages). (author) 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 Kirby, Percival Robson. The Kettledrums: A Book for Composers, Conductors, and Kettledrummers. London: Oxford University Press, 1930 Tabourot. Historic Percussion--A Survey. Austin, TX: Tactus Press, 1994 Tabourot. Royall Drummes & Martiall Musick. Austin, TX: Tactus Press, 1993. Taylor, Henry W. The Art and Science of the Timpani. London: John Baker, 1964 Tobischek, Herbert. Die Pauke: Ihre spiel- und bautechnische Entwicklung in der Neuzeit. [The Timpani: Its Technical and Structural Development in the Modern Era.] Tutzing, Germany: Hans Schneider, 1977 |
