Research Guides: Percussion: Performance Practice

Performance Practice Resources for Percussion

Methods & Studies
Orchestral Excerpts

The UO Libraries Music Collection includes the following method books and technical studies for percussion performance practice; browse the shelves in the call number areas provided below to find more works like these.

Method of movement : for marimba, with 590 exercises by Leigh Howard Stevens
Call Number: MT719.2.S7
Publication Date: 1979
Modern school for xylophone, marimba [and] vibraphone : with the additions of excerpts for these instruments from renowned orchestral works by Morris Goldenberg
Call Number: MT719.3.G6
Publication Date: 1950
Modern school for snare drum : combined with a guide book for the artist percussionist by Morris Goldenberg
Call Number: MT662.G65
Publication Date: 1955
Master technique builders for vibraphone and marimba : two and four mallet technical exercises by leading concert and recording artists by Anthony J. Cirone
Call Number: MT719.3.M376 1985
Publication Date: 1985
Modern method for tympani by Saul Goodman
Call Number: MT660.G6
Publication Date: 1948
The Cambridge Companion to Percussion by Russell Hartenberger (Editor)
Call Number: on order
Publication Date: 2016
Drumset Essentials, Complete by Peter Erskine
Call Number: DVD 03283
Publication Date: 2005
The Art of Bop Drumming by John Riley.; Dan Thress, editor.
Call Number: MT662.2 .R55 1994; COMPACT DISC CX15668
Publication Date: 1994

The UO Libraries Music Collection includes the following collections of orchestral excerpts for percussion; browse the shelves in the call number areas provided below to find more works like these.

Orchestral Excerpts : a comprehensive index by Carolyn Rabson
Call Number: MUSIC REF ML128.O5 R2 1993
Publication Date: 1993
Orchestral Repertoire for the Snare Drum by Raynor Carroll
Call Number: MT662.4 .O75 2000
Publication Date: 1997
Symphonic Repertoire for Snare Drum : a detailed analysis of the major orchestral snare drum repertoire by Anthony J. Cirone
Call Number: MT662.4 .S967 2006
Publication Date: 2006
20th century orchestra studies for timpani by Alan Abel
Call Number: MT660.A2
Publication Date: 1970
Classic overtures for timpani : from Mozart to Wagner by Morris Goldenberg
Call Number: MT660.4.G64
Publication Date: 1961
Classic symphonies for timpani by Morris Goldenberg
Call Number: MT660.4.G65
Publication Date: 1963
Standard concertos for timpani : from the piano and violin solo repertory by Morris Goldenberg
Call Number: MT660.4.G63
Publication Date: 1969
Romantic symphonies for timpani : Schubert, Mendelssohn, Schumann, Brahms, Dvorak, Tchaikovsky by Morris Goldenberg
Call Number: MT660.4.R65 1964
Publication Date: 1964
Passi difficili e "a solo" per timpani = Difficult passages and "solos" for timpani = Schwierige Stellen und "Soli" für Pauken by Leonida Torrebruno
Call Number: MT660.4 .P388 1977
Publication Date: 1977

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