The Cambridge Companion to the Drum Kit

The Cambridge Companion to the Drum Kit
Author: Matt Brennan
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 283
Release: 2021-06-17
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1108489834

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An approachable introduction to the drum kit, drummers, and drumming, and the key debates surrounding the instrument and its players.

The Cambridge Companion to the Drum Kit

The Cambridge Companion to the Drum Kit
Author: Matt Brennan
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 283
Release: 2021-06-17
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1108803385

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The drum kit is ubiquitous in global popular music and culture, and modern kit drumming profoundly defined the sound of twentieth-century popular music. The Cambridge Companion to the Drum Kit highlights emerging scholarship on the drum kit, drummers and key debates related to the instrument and its players. Interdisciplinary in scope, this volume draws on research from across the humanities, sciences, and social sciences to showcase the drum kit, a relatively recent historical phenomenon, as a site worthy of analysis, critique, and reflection. Providing readers with an array of perspectives on the social, material, and performative dimensions of the instrument, this book will be a valuable resource for students, drum kit studies scholars, and all those who want a deeper understanding of the drum kit, drummers, and drumming.

The Cambridge Companion to Percussion

The Cambridge Companion to Percussion
Author: Russell Hartenberger
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages:
Release: 2016-03-10
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1316546217

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Percussion music is both the oldest and most recent of musical genres and exists in diverse forms throughout the world. This Companion explores percussion and rhythm from the perspectives of performers, composers, conductors, instrument builders, scholars, and cognitive scientists. Topics covered include percussion in symphony orchestras from the nineteenth century to today and the development of percussion instruments in chapters on the marimba revolution, the percussion industry, drum machines, and the effect of acoustics. Chapters also investigate drum set playing and the influences of world music on Western percussion, and outline the roles of percussionists as composers, conductors, soloists, chamber musicians, and theatrical performers. Developments in scientific research are explored in chapters on the perception of sound and the evolution of musical rhythm. This book will be a valuable resource for students, percussionists, and all those who want a deeper understanding of percussion music and rhythm.

The Cambridge Companion to Percussion

The Cambridge Companion to Percussion
Author: Russell Hartenberger
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 327
Release: 2016-03-10
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1107093457

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The Cambridge Companion to Rhythm

The Cambridge Companion to Rhythm
Author: Russell Hartenberger
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 371
Release: 2020-09-24
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1108492924

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An exploration of rhythm and the richness of musical time from the perspective of performers, composers, analysts, and listeners.

Progressive Steps to Syncopation for the Modern Drummer

Progressive Steps to Syncopation for the Modern Drummer
Author: Ted Reed
Publisher: Alfred Music
Total Pages: 66
Release: 2005-05-03
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1457412195

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Voted second on Modern Drummer's list of 25 Greatest Drum Books in 1993, Progressive Steps to Syncopation for the Modern Drummer is one of the most versatile and practical works ever written for drums. Created exclusively to address syncopation, it has earned its place as a standard tool for teaching beginning drummers syncopation and strengthening reading skills. This book includes many accented eighths, dotted eighths and sixteenths, eighth-note triplets and sixteenth notes for extended solos. In addition, teachers can develop many of their own examples from it.

Performance Practice in the Music of Steve Reich

Performance Practice in the Music of Steve Reich
Author: Russell Hartenberger
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 293
Release: 2016-10-06
Genre: Music
ISBN: 131677676X

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Performance Practice in the Music of Steve Reich provides a performer's perspective on Steve Reich's compositions from his iconic minimalist work, Drumming, to his masterpiece, Music for 18 Musicians. It addresses performance issues encountered by the musicians in Reich's original ensemble and the techniques they developed to bring his compositions to life. Drawing comparisons with West African drumming and other non-Western music, the book highlights ideas that are helpful in the understanding and performance of rhythm in all pulse-based music. Through conversations and interviews with the author, Reich discusses his percussion background and his thoughts about rhythm in relation to the music of Ghana, Bali, India, and jazz. He explains how he used rhythm in his early compositions, the time feel he wants in his music, the kind of performer who seems to be drawn to his music, and the way perceptual and metrical ambiguity create interest in repetitive music.

The Cambridge Companion to the Rolling Stones

The Cambridge Companion to the Rolling Stones
Author: Victor Coelho
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 247
Release: 2019-09-12
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1107030269

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The first collection of academic essays focused entirely on the musical, historical, cultural and media impact of the Rolling Stones.

The Cambridge Companion to Krautrock

The Cambridge Companion to Krautrock
Author: Uwe Schütte
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 345
Release: 2022-10-27
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1316511073

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This Companion is the first academic introduction to the 1960s/70s 'Krautrock' movement of German experimental music that has long attracted the attention of the music press and fans in Britain and abroad. It offers a structured approach to this exceptionally heterogeneous and decentralized movement, combining overviews with detailed analysis and close readings. The volume first analyzes the cultural, historical and economic contexts of Krautrock's emergence. It then features expert chapters discussing all the key bands of the era including Can, Kraftwerk, Tangerine Dream, Neu!, Faust, Ash Ra Tempel, Cluster and Amon Düül II. The volume concludes with essays that trace the varied, wide-ranging legacy of Krautrock from a variety of perspectives, exploring in particular the impact of German experimental music in the Anglosphere, including British post-punk and Detroit Techno. A final chapter examining the current bands that continue the Krautrock sound closes this comprehensive overview of the Krautrock phenomenon.

The Cambridge Companion to Composition

The Cambridge Companion to Composition
Author: Toby Young
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 359
Release: 2024-05-30
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1108831699

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This wide-ranging guide offers insights for musicians and students on how to be a composer.