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Kampela's compositions, particular his Percussion Studies for Guitar, have been performed numerous times around the world (North America, South America, Europe, and Asia), resulting in dozens of renditions on YouTube, [13] at the Tanglewood Contemporary Music Festival, [14] the Austrian Cultural Forum New York, and by ensembles such as the New ...
The notation of non-pitched percussion instruments is less standardized, and therefore often includes a key or legend specifying which line or space each individual instrument will be notated on. Cymbals are usually notated with 'x' note heads, drums with normal elliptical note heads and auxiliary percussion with alternative note heads. [1]
String Quartet No. 1 in G major (1947) Capriccio for cello and piano (1948) Studies in Improvisation for clarinet, horn, cello, piano and percussion (1959) Echoi for clarinet, cello, percussion and piano (1961–1963) Elytres for flute, 2 violins and chamber ensemble (1964)
Metric are a Canadian indie rock band founded in 1998 in Toronto, Ontario. [2] The band consists of Emily Haines (lead vocals, synthesizers , guitar, tambourine, harmonica, piano), James Shaw (guitar, synthesizers, theremin , backing vocals), Joshua Winstead (bass, synthesizers, backing vocals) and Joules Scott-Key (drums, percussion).
Beatboxing (also beat boxing) is a form of vocal percussion primarily involving the art of mimicking drum machines (usually a TR-808), using one's mouth, lips, tongue, and voice. [1] It may also involve vocal imitation of turntablism , and other musical instruments .
Jazz drumming is the art of playing percussion (predominantly the drum kit, which includes a variety of drums and cymbals) in jazz styles ranging from 1910s-style Dixieland jazz to 1970s-era jazz fusion and 1980s-era Latin jazz. The techniques and instrumentation of this type of performance have evolved over several periods, influenced by jazz ...
Mitchell Thomas Peters (August 17, 1935 – October 28, 2017) was a principal timpanist and percussionist with the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra. He composed well-known pieces for the marimba such as "Yellow After the Rain" and "Sea Refractions"; it is said that these works were composed because Peters felt that there was a lack of musically interesting material that would introduce his ...
Harry Partch (June 24, 1901 – September 3, 1974) was an American composer, music theorist, and creator of unique musical instruments.He composed using scales of unequal intervals in just intonation, and was one of the first 20th-century composers in the West to work systematically with microtonal scales, alongside Lou Harrison.