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Percussion Music Study Guide
by Alice Gomez

Percussion Ensembles

Difficulty Rating Scale:
I-II: Elementary
III-IV: Intermediate
V-VI: Advanced
VI+: Difficult

 

Percussion Music by Southern Music Company

 

ELEMENTARY

And Four To Go - (I) Maxine Lefever (I. snare drum; II. tom-toms; III. suspended cym.; IV. bass drum)

And They Came To Play - (II) William J. Schinstine (10 players)

Chinese Laundry Man - (I) Harold F. Prentice (I. woodblock, snare drum, sandpaper; II. tom-tom, snare drum; III. bass drum, cymbals, gong)

Congress Is In Session - (II) Joe R. Taylor (3 percussionists on "toys")

Echo Echo - (II) Alice Gomez (I. two sus. cym., 2 maracas; II. one maraca, snare drum, high tom-tom; 111.1 maraca, middle tom-tom, low tom-tom; IV. four timpani)

Fiesta Flamence - (I) Harold F Prentice (6 to 8 players; timpani, snare drum, 2-4 hand clappers, tambourine, castanets)

Gentle Metal Monster, The - (II) William J. Schinstine (5 players; I.6 brake drums, II.4 tom-toms, III.3 snare drums, IV. bells, V. 4 timpani)

Lafayette - (I) Maxine Lefever (I. snare drum; II. snare drum; III. triples; IV. sus. cymbal, V. bass drum)

Metallic Mystique - (II) William J. Schinstine (6 players)

Old Woman, The - (II) Warren Johnson (Narrator and 3 players: I. sizzle cym, sus. cym., bongos; II. wood block, temple blocks, tri., bells; III. gong, bass drum)

Proloque And Fight - (II) Jared Spears (4 players)

Quint Capers - (I) Maxine Lefever (I. snare drum; II. snare drum; III. triangle; IV suspended cym.; V. bass drum)

Rhythm Busters - (II) William J. Schinstine (I. snare drum; II. cymbals, woodblock, field drum; III. bass drum; IV timpani)

Skip Two - (II) Edward S. Solomon (6 players)

The Two Dollar Window - (II) Edward S. Solomon (6 players)

Tom's Trio - (I) Maxine Lefever (I. triples; II. triangle; III. claves)

Triplets By Four - (I) Maxine Lefever (I. snare drum; II. triples; III. suspended cym.; IV. bass drum)

Waltzing Rhythms - (I) Maxine Lefever (I. triples; II. triangle; III. tambourine; IV bass drum)

 

INTERMEDIATE

 Acoustic Suite - (III) William J. Schinstine (I. snare drum; II. field drum; III. roto-toms; IV sus. cym.; V bass drum; VI. timpani (2 or 4)

Afterthoughts - (III) Alice Gomez  (8 players)

Antiphon - (IV) F. Michael Combs (10 players - double percussion choir)

Blue Samba - (IV) Murray Houliff  (8 players including electric bass)

Blues And Chaser - (IV) Jared Spears (I. bells; II. xylo.; III. marimba; IV tamb., chimes; V vibes; VI. 4 timp.; VII. 3 toms; VIII. set)

Centralization - (III) William J. Schinstine (5 players)

Clown, The - (III) Dmitri Kabalevsk/Ukena (I. mallets; II. mallets; III. timpani; IV snare drum; V. tenor drum; VI. cymbals)

Conversations - (III) Todd Ukena (10 players; standard percussion instruments)

Cross Currents - (IV) Lynn Glasscock (For 9 players)

Fanfare - (IV) George Frock (6 players - double percussion trio)

Fanfare: Beijing 1989 - (IV) David Jarvis (5 players)

Four Folk Dances - (IV) Alice Gomez & Marilyn Rife (4 duets for small percussion instruments)

Heartbeat - (Ill) Alice Gomez (I. suspended cym.; II. srnall gong, snare drum; III. 3 toms; IV. bass drum)

Let's Give Them A Hand - (III) Francis McBeth (4 clappers and stompers)

Mambo Africano - (IV) Alice Gomez (6 players)

Mercury Retrograde - (III) Sharda Brody (7 players)

Quiescence - (III) Todd Ukena (I bells, snare drum, sus. cym.; II. vibes, bass drum; III. timp.; IV. wind chimes, sus. cym., gong)

Romantique - (IV) Jared Spears (8 players)

Samba - (IV) Ney Rosauro (6 players)

Samba Macabre - (III) Camille Saint-Saens/Armstrong (5 to 9 players)

Scherzo - (IV) Ron Delp (I. tom-toms; II. 4 timpani)

Soliloquy For Percussion - (III) Donald K. Gilbert (I. tom-toms, marimba; II 2timp.; III. snare drum; IV. cyms., chimes; V. bass drum)

Suite For The Victims of Ap Dong Gi -IV Ralph Hampton (5 players)

Time For Jazz, A - (IV) Jared Spears (8 players)

Two Gentlemen Of Virginia - (III) Murray Houllif (5 players; two optional piccolo parts)

 

ADVANCED

Caprice Diabolique - (V) Jared Spears (8 players)

Flight of the Falcon - (V) Jared Spears (8 players)

Interplay - (V) Michael Horvit (4 players, large assortment of percussion instruments)

Layers - (V) Lynn Glassock (8 players)

Momentum - (VI) William Kraft  (8 players)

Perspectives - (V) Lawrence Weiner (8 players)

Polyphonies - (V) Jared Spears (4 players)

Three Asiatic Dances - (V) George Frock (6 players)

Three By Four - (V) Lawrence Weiner (percussion quartet)

 

MALLET ENSEMBLE SERIES

ELEMENTARY

The Bells Of Dunkirk - (I) Norman Weinberg (5 players - xylophone, vibraphone, 3 marimbas)

Gavotte - (II) Johm Sebastian Bach/Schinstine (5 players - bells{opt.}, xylophone, 3 marimbas)

 

INTERMEDIATE

Ancient Voices-Distant Storms- (III) Michael Varner (5 players: I. xylophone; II. bells; III. bells; IV chimes; V. sus. cym., low tom, bass dr., gong)

Aria and Burlesque - (III) Domenico Scarlatti/Grimo (4 to 5 players: I. bells or xylo; II. xylo or marimba; III. marimba or vibes; IV. marimba w/low A; V optional string bass)

Blast of Class, A - (III) William J. Schinstine (solo drum set and 4 mallet players: vibes, xylophone, and 2 marimbas)

Clintonian Sketch -(IV) Jared Spears (8 players)

Connected Forces - (IV) Lynn Glasscock (12 players)

La Danza - (IV) G. Rossini (8 players) arr. Steve Grimo

La Mi La Sol - (IV) Heinrich Isaac/Weinberg (4 players: xylophone and 3 marimbas)

9 Christmas Carols - (III) Michael Hutton (7 players)

Pizzacato Polka - (III) Johann Strauss/Schinstine (4 players: xylophone and 3 marimbas)

Quintet - (IV) Michael Lang (2 marimbas, vibraphone, snare drum, bass drum cymbals)

Rainbows - (IV) Alice Gomez (4 players: vibraphone, xylophone, 2 marimbas)

Rondo In D - (III) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozan/Schinstine (4 players: xylophone {or marimba), 3 marimbas)

Royal Fireworks Suite - (IV) George Frideric Handel/Grimo (5 players: I. bells; II. xylo.; III. marimba; IV optional side drum; V optional timpani)

Sellinger's Round - (III/IV) William Byrd/Weinberg (4 players: xylophone and 3 marimbas)

3 Short Dances - (III) Tielman SusatoIWeinberg (6 players: xylophone, 2 vibes, 3 marimbas)

The Sighs of Carnival - (IV) Todd A. Ukena (6 players)

Traumerei - (III) Robert Schumarin/Schinstine (5 players: xylophone, vibraphone, 3 marimbas)

Whirlwind, The - (IV) Joe Green/Schinstine (4 players: xylophone solo and 3 marimbas)

Xylophonia - (IV) Joe Green/Witten (4 players: xylophone solo, 2 marimbas, and drum set)

 

ADVANCED

Gainsborough - (V) Thomas Gauger (5 players: I. and II. marimba; III. snare dr., gong; IV timp.; V. bass dr., attached cyrn., hand cymbals, sus. cym.)

Mininial Studies - (V/VI) Randall Snyder (3 players)

Particles - (V) Thomas A. Brown (7 players)

Quaternion - (V) Ron Delp (4 players)

Stick Games - (VI) James R. Riley (9 players)

Two By Two - (VI) Lawrence Riley (Vibraphone and marimba duet)


Percussion Music by Southern Music Company


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