Handbook Of Percussion Instruments

This handbook is designed to provide today's practicing musician and music student, and especially today's percussionist, with a comprehensive survey of the entire arsenal of percussion resources they are likely to encounter. Among the subjects covered are: classification of the instruments into basic groups; detailed descriptions of the construction of each instrument including many Latin-American, Afro-American, and East-Asian instruments; a brief tracing of the origin and history of each instrument; the ranges of all pitched instruments; the most commonly used beaters, etc., for each instrument, as well as the common ones; the essential playing techniques for each instrument; the way the instruments have been used in the most significant compositions of the orchestral and operatic repertoire (detailed references); over 100 musical examples (mostly complete score pages) from the literature, showing how the instruments appear in context; a special listing of Latin-American percussion instruments, and how to substitute for those that are unavailable; an English-German-Italian-French glossary; a special listing of the percussion instruments used in the Orff Schulwerk; photographic illustrations of virtually all instruments covered.