How to Write for Percussion : A Comprehensive Guide to Percussion Composition.

Samuel Z. Solomon
Bok · Engelsk · 2016 · Electronic books.

Omfang	1 online resource (313 pages)
Utgave	2nd ed.
Opplysninger	Cover -- Title page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword to the First Edition -- Preface to the Second Edition -- Acknowledgments -- About the Video Companion -- Introduction -- How This Book Is Organized -- Instruments Covered -- Working with Percussionists -- Location Specifics -- The Value of Not Reading This Book -- Chapter 1 General Framework -- A Dysfunctional Family -- Comparison of Family Relationships -- The Problem of Pitch -- The Pitches of Percussion -- The Validations and Limitations of Novelty -- Three Methods for Indeterminately Pitch Instruments -- The Written/.Improv Divide -- Expanding the Color Palette (to Shrink the Setup) -- The Value of Improvised and Non-.Notated Music -- Social Composition -- Write for People, Not Sounds -- Write What Is Wanted, Not What to Do -- Working with Percussionists -- Chapter 2 General Logistics -- Instrument Choice and Management -- Six Stories: Three Sad and Three Happy -- Why Use Fewer Instruments? -- How to Consolidate -- Inexpensive Instruments -- Exotic Instruments -- Electronic Percussion -- Multiple Options for a Specified Instrument -- Instruments Percussionists May Not Play -- Multiple Percussionists -- Section Setup -- Orchestra -- Wind Ensemble -- Broadway Pit -- Drum Corps and Marching Bands -- Specialists -- Non-.Percussionists Playing Percussion -- Chairs and Stands -- Issues of Playability -- Excessive Polyphony -- How Fast Percussionists Can Play -- Unidiomatic Writing-.Music That Often Requires Memorization -- Dynamics -- Reaching the Instruments -- Instruments with Pedals -- Physical Exertion and Shaking -- Working with Headphones or Headset Microphones -- Chapter 3 General Notation -- Basics of Percussion Parts and Scores -- Instrument List -- Instrument Key -- Setup Diagram -- Language -- Parts -- Cues -- Percussion in the Conductor's Score -- Dynamics.. - Church Bells -- Hand Bells -- Steel Drums -- Tambourines -- Sleighbells -- Metal Wind Chimes, Mark Tree, and Bell Tree -- Flexatone -- Extended Techniques -- Chapter 8 Wood -- Woodblocks, Templeblocks, and Log Drum -- Wooden Planks -- Wood Drums, Wooden Boxes, Cajón, and Mahler Hammer -- Claves -- Castanets -- Rute -- Guiro -- Slapstick -- Ratchet -- Bamboo Wind Chimes -- Chapter 9 Miscellaneous Instruments -- Bottles -- Cabasa -- Conch Shell -- Crystal Glasses -- Maracas and Shakers -- Rainstick -- Rice Bowls and Flower Pots -- Sandpaper Blocks -- Sirens -- String Drum and Cuica -- Stones and Prayer Stones -- Thumb Piano -- Vibraslap -- Wind Chimes -- Whistles -- Wind Machine -- Appendix A Repertoire Analysis -- Percussion Ensemble -- Edgard Varèse, Ionisation (1929-.1931) -- John Cage, Constructions (1939-.1942) -- Iannis Xenakis, Persephassa (1969) -- Steve Reich, Drumming (1970-.1971) -- Steve Mackey, It Is Time (2010) -- John Luther Adams, Inuksuit (2009) -- Ryan Streber, Cold Pastoral (2004) -- Nico Muhly, Ta &amp -- Clap (2004) -- Adam Silverman, Naked and on Fire (2011) -- Paul Lansky, Travel Diary (2007) -- Orchestral -- Béla Bartók -- Sergei Prokofiev -- Maurice Ravel -- Gustav Mahler -- Dmitri Shostakovich -- Leonard Bernstein -- Carl Nielsen -- Jean Sibelius -- Wind Ensemble -- Smaller Mixed Ensemble -- John Adams, Chamber Symphony (1992) -- Stephan Hartke, Meanwhile (2007) -- Jacob Druckman, Come Round (1992) -- Charles Wuorinen, New York Notes (1982) -- Pierre Boulez, Sur Incises (1996/.1998) -- Percussion Solo-.Drums -- Michio Kitazume, Side by Side (1991) -- Elliott Carter, Eight Pieces for Four Timpani (1950/.1966) -- Casey Cangelosi, Meditation No. 1 (2011) -- Percussion Solo­-.Keyboards -- Jacob Druckman, Reflections on the Nature of Water (1986) -- Paul Simon, Amulet (2008) -- Steve Mackey, See Ya Thursday (1992).. - Designing a Notational System -- Clefs -- Staves -- Noteheads -- Mixing Determinately and Indeterminately Pitched Instruments -- Key Signatures -- What Goes Where on the Staff -- The Chicken or the Egg? -- Unspecified Instruments (Indeterminate Instrumentation) -- How Much to Notate -- Systems of Notation for Which There Is No Standard -- Return to a "Normal" Method of Playing -- Note Length, Articulation, and Phrasing -- Note-.Length Chart -- Exact or Inexact Note-.Length Indications -- Muting (Muffling, Dampening) -- Dead Stroke -- Damper Pedals -- Rolls -- Notations That Are Not Recommended -- Symbol Notation -- Altered Keyboard Notation (Timbre-.Staff) -- Chapter 4 Beaters -- To Indicate or Not to Indicate? -- Beater Lingo -- Logistic Beater Issues -- Sticks -- Mallets -- Triangle Beaters and Knitting Needles -- Brushes -- Rute Sticks -- Chime Hammers (Tubular Bell Hammers) -- Superball Mallet -- Beaters as Instruments -- Hands -- Bows -- Chapter 5 Keyboard Percussion -- Ranges and Construction -- Writing for Keyboard Percussion -- Stacked Instruments -- Multiple Players -- Extended Techniques -- Miscellaneous -- Chapter 6 Drums -- Sticks on Drums -- Mallets on Drums -- Hands on Drums -- Playing on the Rim or Shell -- Beating Spot -- Mutes -- Pitch Bending -- Drum Size -- Two-.Headed Drums -- Multiple Drums in Setups -- Idiomatic Writing for Drums -- Timpani -- Tom-.Toms -- Snare Drum, Field Drum, and Tenor Drum -- Concert Bass Drum and Pedal Bass Drum -- Bongos and Congas -- Timbales -- Roto-.Toms -- Frame Drums -- Tambourines -- Djembe and Doumbek -- Boobams -- Drumset -- Chapter 7 Metal -- Cymbals -- Gongs -- Triangle -- Finger Cymbals -- Cowbells and Almglocken -- Temple Bowls and Mixing Bowls -- Brake Drums, Metal Pipes, Anvils, and Bell Plates -- Thundersheet -- Junk Metal, Tin Cans, and Pots and Pans -- Ribbon Crasher -- Spring Coil.. - Steve Swallow/.Gary Burton, "I'm Your Pal" and "Hullo Bolinas" -- Donald Martino, Soliloquy (2003) -- Percussion Solo-.Multi-.Percussion -- Iannis Xenakis, Psappha (1975) -- David Lang, Anvil Chorus (1991) -- Roger Reynolds, Watershed (1995) -- Four Pieces for the Author's "Setup #1" -- Nico Muhly, It's About Time (2004) -- Michael Early, Raingutter (2007) -- Marcos Balter, Descarga (2006) -- Judd Greenstein, We Shall Be Turned (2006) -- Percussion Concerto -- James MacMillan, Veni, Veni Emmanuel (1992) -- Einojuhani Rautavaara, Incantations (2008) -- Steven Mackey, Micro-.Concerto (1999) -- Orchestrating Native Sounds -- Appendix B Sample Setups -- Appendix C Extended Techniques -- Return to a "Normal" Method of Playing -- Manipulations of Timbre -- Striking Unusual Parts of an Instrument -- Unusual Use of Beaters -- Dead Stroke -- Beating Spot -- Bowing -- Friction Roll -- Scrape -- Prepared Instruments -- Pitch Bending -- Vibrato -- Adding Mass -- Sympathetic Resonance -- Clusters -- Harmonics -- Appendix D Pitch Specification -- Appendix E Dynamics -- Appendix F Register -- Appendix G Beaters -- Appendix H Percussion Family Tree -- Index.. - How to Write for Percussion is a comprehensive resource that clearly explains and simplifies all issues that percussionists and composers face with respect to each other. Written from a percussionist's perspective, it examines the behind-the-scenes processes to uncover all the tools the composer needs to comfortably create innovative and skilled percussion composition.
Emner	Percussion instruments - Instruction and study.
Sjanger	Electronic books.
Dewey	786.8/13
ISBN	9780199920358
ISBN(galt)	9780199920365