The Multiple Percussion Book, Nick Petrella/John Allemeier

Multiple Percussion Book, The. Nick Petrella & John Allemeier

DESCRIPTION
The perfect resource for the serious percussionist and non-percussionist music educators, The Multiple Percussion Book introduces and provides etudes for the tremendous variety of concepts, styles and techniques the modern percussion player is likely to encounter. Expanded percussion usage by contemporary classical composers has led to a bewildering number of notational devices as well as the expansion offeraditional practice. This book lucidly describes and demonstrates many of these fascinating developments through the examples and etudes.

Author Dr. Nick Petrella was Director of Percussion Studies at Texas Christian University from 1996 to 2001. He also maintains afull schedule as a freelance musician in the Dallas/Fort Worth area and is very active in commissioning new music from a wide variety of contemporary composers. Dr. John Allemeier, who contributed the etudes in The Multiple Percussion Book, has a Ph.D. in music composition from the University of Iowa and a Master of Music in composition from North Western University. His composition teachers have included David Gompper, D. Martin Jenni, M. William Karlin and Michael Pisaro. The book also includes an introduction by percussion superstar, Evelyn Glennie and a CD demonstrating many of the concepts and techniques in the book.

Content
Foreword by Evelyn Glennie
Preface
Notation
Notation
Instrument Selection
Instrument Set-up
Instrument Set-up
Instrument Set-up
Music Stand Placement and Music Reproduction
Implement Selection
Fluid Motion
Musicality
Additional Considerations
Definition of Symbols
Etudes
Etudes
Etudes
Etudes
Etudes
Etudes
Etudes
Etudes
Etudes
Etudes
About the Author
About the Composer

SPECIFICATIONS
Composer Nick Petrella
Composer John Allemeier
Instrument Group Other Percussion
Instrumentation Percussion
Product Type Book [Softcover]
Publisher Carl Fischer
Year of Publication 2000
No. Pages 82
ISBN 9780825841699
UPC 798408041694
Edition Number O5461
No. CFO5461