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Mississippi State University Percussion
Scroll down for method books (by instrument), solos (for marimba, timpani, and multiple percussion by level), orchestral repertoire, and percussion ensemble repertoire by level. These are provided as a resource for the general public and prospective students, and represents many of the materials incorporated by the MSU Percussion Studio.

Method/Etude Books
 
Snare Drum Technique
 
            Bailey                          Wrist Twisters
            James                         The Modern Snare Drum Roll
            Peters                         Developing Dexterity
            Stone                           Accents and Rebounds
            Stone                           Stick Control
 
Snare Drum Etudes
 
            Baker                          15 Progressive Snare Drum Solos
            Cirone                         Portraits in Rhythm
            Delecluse                   Douze Etudes
            Lepak                          50 Etudes for Snare Drum
            Peters                         Intermediate Snare Drum Studies
            Peters                         Advanced Snare Drum Studies
            Pratt                            14 Modern Contest Solos
            Tompkins                   Nine French-American Snare Drum Solos (vol. 1-2)
 
Keyboard Percussion

            Bailey                          Mental and Manual Calisthenics
            Ford                            Marimba: Technique Through Music
            Gaines                        Sequential Studies for Four-Mallet Marimba, Volume 1
            Green                          Instruction Course for Xylophone
            Goldenberg               Modern School for Mallets
            Peters                         Fundamental Method for Mallets
            Stevens                       Method of Movement
 
Timpani
 
            Baker                           33 Elementary Etudes for Timpani
            Carroll                          Exercises, Etudes, and Solos for the Timpani
            Delecluse                    30 Studies for Timpani
            Firth                             The Solo Timpanist
            Friese/Lepak               Timpani Method
            Hochrainer                  Etuden for Timpani (vol. 1-3)
            Lepak                            32 Solos for Timpani
            Lepak                            50 Master Etudes for Timpani
            Peters                           Fundamental Method for Timpani
           
Drum-Set
           
            Black/Feldstein        Alfred’s Beginning Drumset Method
            Chester                       The New Breed
            Davis                           Maiden Voyage
            Davis                           Jazz Drummers: Masters of Time
            Igoe                             Groove Essentials
            Garibaldi                     Future Sounds
            Morgan                       Jazz Drummer’s Reading Workbook
           
Solo Marimba Repertoire
 
Beginner to Intermediate
 
Abe                               Frogs
Blume                          Like a Burden Too Heavy
Davila                           Impressions on Wood (collection)
Dinicu-Heifetz           Hora Staccato (2 mallets)
Fieldman                    Northampton
Ford                             Marimba: Technique Through Music (collection)
Gipson                        Prayer
Glennie                       Three Chorales
Gomez                        Mbira Song
Gomez                        Rain Dance
Gwinn                          A True Lover’s Farewell
Kreisler/Green           Tambourin Chinois (2 mallets)
McMillan                     Masterpieces for the Marimba (collection)
Musser                        Etude, C Major Op. 6 #10
Musser                        Etude, B Major Op. 6 #9
Peters                          Yellow After the Rain
Peters                          Sea Refractions
Quartier                      Images (collection)
Rosauro                      Seven Brazilian Children’s Songs
Rosauro                      Three Preludes
Smadbeck                 Etudes 1, 2, 3
Zivkovic                      Funny Marimba, vol. I-II (collection)
 
Intermediate
 
Abe                              Dream of the Cherry Blossoms
Bach                            Six Suites for Cello
Breuer                         Xylophone Rags (2 mallets)
Creston                       Concertino for Marimba
Deane                         Etude for a Quiet Hall
Finley                          Evergreen
Gipson                        Monograph IV
Gomez                        Gitano
Green                          Xylophone Rags of GH Green (2 mallets)
Hovhaness                 Fantasy on Japanese Woodprints
Monkman                  Parody
O’Mera                        Restless
Rosauro                      Suite Popular
Sammut                     Four Rotation for Marimba
Smadbeck                 Rhythm Song
Steinquest                 Meditation and Dance
Tyson                           A Cricket Sang and Set the Sun
 
Intermediate to Advanced
 
Abe                              Michi
Abe                              Variations on Japanese Children’s Songs
Abe                              Wind in the Bamboo Grove
Cangelosi                    White Knuckle Stroll (2 mallets)
Cheung                       Etude in E Minor
Bach                            Sonatas and Partitas
Burritt                          Four Movements for Marimba
Burritt                          October Night
Burritt                          Scirocco
Fissinger                     Suite for Marimba
Ford                             The Green Road
Ford                             Polaris
Kopetzki                     Three Movements for a Solo Dancer
Levitan                        Marimba Suite #2
Maslanka                    My Lady White
Mayuzumi                  Concertino for Xylophone and Orchestra
Miki                              Marimba Spiritual
Rosauro                      Concerto for Marimba
Samuels                      Footpath
Sejourne                      Nancy
Schumann/Stevens  Album for the Young
Smadbeck                  Virginia Tate
Stout                            Astral Dance
Stout                            Rumble Strips
Stout                            Two Mexican Dances
Sueyoshi                     Mirage pour Marimba
Tanaka                        Two Movements for Marimba
Zivkovic                      Ilijas
 
Advanced
 
Bennett                       After Syrinx
Blazewicz                    Sonata for Marimba
Deane                          The Process of Invention
Druckman                  Reflections on the Nature of Water
Ewazen                       Northern Lights
Klatzow                       Dances of Earth and Fire
Maslanka                    Variations on a Lost Love
Miyoshi                        Torse III
Miki                              Time for Marimba
Schwantner               Velocities
Serry                            Night Rhapsody
Stevens                       Rhythmic Caprice
Thomas                       Merlin
Vinao                           Burritt Variations
Vinao                           Kahn Variations
 
Solo Timpani Repertoire
 
Beginning to Intermediate
 
Aiello                           Classic African
Ameele                       Cadenza #2
Beck                            Sonata for Timpani
Beck                            Three Episodes for Timpani
Bergamo                    Four Pieces for Timpani
Firth                             Solo Impression
Firth                             The Solo Timpanist
Gay                               Pedal to the Kettle (collection)
Goodman                   Ballad for the Dance
Goodman                   Introduction and Allegro
Jones                          Sonata
Lepak                          32 Solos for Timpani
Muzynski                    Three Designs for Timpani
Peters                         Primal Mood
Peters                         Scherzo
Peters                         Rondino
Williams                     Variations for Solo Kettledrums
Willmarth                  Bushido: Way of the Warrior
 
Intermediate to Advanced
 
Cahn                           Raga #1
Coutsouridis              Variations and Themes
Carter                          Eight Pieces for Four Timpani
Deane                         Prelude I for Four Timpani
Houllif                         Four Verses for Timpani
Igelsrud                      Soundings
Kraft                            Variations for King George
Leonard                      Canticle
Lepak                          Duo for Timpani
Lepak                          50 Master Etudes for Timpani
Orfaly                          Rhapsody No. 2 for Timpani
Riedhammer            Kettle Battle
Roeder                        Episodium for Five Timpani in Four Movements
 
Solo Multiple Percussion Repertoire
 
Beginning to Intermediate
 
Beck                            Episode for Solo Percussion
Bliss (ed.)                    Multitudes
Burritt                         Sticks of Eloquence
Campbell                   Engine Room
Campbell                   Tork
Campbell/Hill           Music for Multi-Percussion (collection)
Cirone                         Portraits in Multiple Percussion (collection)
De Lancey                 The Love of L’Historie
Goldenberg              Studies in Solo Percussion (collection)
Kraft                            English Suite
Kraft                            French Suite
Kraft                            Morris Dance
Udow/Watts.             The Contemporary Percussionist

Intermediate to Advanced
 
Aukofer                        Backpacker
Cangelosi                    Ogre Ballet
Cangelosi                    Sick 6erpent
Feldman                      The King of Denmark
Finley                           Blade
Hollinden                    Cold Pressed
Milhaud                       Concerto for Percussion
Rzewski                       To the Earth
Stern                             Adventures for One
Tompkins                    March
 
Advanced
 
Cage                              27'10.554" for a percussionist
Cage                             Child of Tree
Ferneyhough              Bone Alphabet
Hamilton                      EDGE (Corrugated Box) – with tape
Kopetzki                       Canned Heat
Volans                           She Who Sleeps with a Small Blanket
Lang                              The Anvil Chorus
Masson                         Frum: A Drum Song
Stockhausen               Zyklus Nr. 9
Wuorinen                     Janissary Music
Xenakis                         Psappha
Xenakis                         Rebonds
 
Orchestral Repertoire for Percussion
 
Snare Drum
           
            Bartok                         Concerto for Orchestra
            Prokofiev                     Lt. Kije
            Prokofiev                     Peter and the Wolf
            Prokofiev                     Symphony No. 5
            Ravel                              Bolero
            Rimsky-Korsakov       Capriccio Espagnol
            Rimsky-Korsakov       Scheherazade
            Schuman                     Symphony No. 3
           
Xylophone
 
            Copland                       Appalachian Spring
            Gershwin                    Porgy and Bess
            Gershwin                    An American in Paris
            Kabalevsky                 Colas Breugnon
            Kodaly                         Hary Janos Suite
            Schuman                    Symphony No. 3
            Stravinsky                   Firebird (1910)
 
Glockenspiel
 
            Debussy                     La Mer
            Dukas                         The Sorcerer’s Apprentice
            Mozart                        The Magic Flute
            Respighi                     The Pines of Rome
            Tchaikovsky               The Sleeping Beauty
           
Cymbals
 
            Mussorgsky                Night on Bald Mountain
            Rachmaninoff           Piano Concerto No. 2
            Tchaikovsky               Romeo and Juliet
            Tchaikovsky               Symphony No. 4
 
Tambourine
 
            Berlioz                         Roman Carnival Overture
            Britten                         “Four Sea Interludes” from Peter Grimes
            Dvorak                         Carnival Overture
            Rimsky-Korsakov      Scheherazade
            Stravinksy                   Petrouchka (1947)
            Tchaikovsky               The Nutcracker Suite (Danse Arabe and Trepak)
 
Triangle
 
            Bizet                            Carmen Suite No. 2: Danse Boheme
            Liszt                             Piano Concerto No. 1
            Rimsky-Korsakov     Scheherazade
 
Timpani
 
            Bartok                         Concerto for Orchestra
            Bartok                         Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celeste
            Beethoven                  Symphonies 1, 5, 7, 9
            Brahms                       Symphonies 1, 4
            Britten                          Four Sea Interludes (No. 4 – Storm)
            Britten                         Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra
            Hindemith                  Symphonic Metamorphosis
            Martin                          Concerto for Seven Winds, Timpani, and Percussion
            Mozart                         Symphony No. 39
            Schuman                     New England Triptych
            Stravinsky                   Rite of Spring
            Tchaikovsky                Symphony No. 4
            Wagner                       Siegfried’s Funeral Music
           
Percussion Ensemble Repertoire
 
Beginning to Intermediate
 
Beyer                          IV
Beck                            Overture for Percussion Ensemble
Beck                            Jazz Variants
Casella                        Katraterra
Casella                        Technology
Colgrass                     Three Brothers
Cirone                         4/4 for Four
Cirone                         Japanese Impressions
Daughtrey                 Power Struggle
Ford                            One Eyed Jacks
Glassock                    Teamwork
Gottry                          From This Viewpoint
Hovanhess                 October Mountain
Levitan                        Variations on a Ghanaian Theme
Peters                         A La Samba
Peters                         Swords of Moda-Ling
Reeves                       Pieces of Eight
Rosauro                      Japanese Overture
Rouse                         Ogoun Badegris
Russell                        Three Dances Movements
 
Intermediate to Advanced
 
Bergamo                     Frembe
Bergamo, et al.          Hands On’Semble Songbook
Brisky                           Continuum
Cage                            Living Room Music
Cage/Harrison           Double Music
Chavez                        Toccata
Condon                       Fractalia
Cowell                         Ostinato Pianissimo
Cowell                         Pulse
Crumb                         Idyll for the Misbegotten
Dietz                            Sharpened Stick
Fitkin                           Hook
Gauger                        Gainsborough
Gauger                        Portico
Green                          Xylophone Rags
Harrison                      Canticle #1
Koshinski                    Streamline
Levitan                        Conservatory Garden
Miki                              Marimba Spiritual
Reich                           Clapping Music
Reich                           Music for Pieces of Wood
Reich                           Nagoya Marimba
Rouse                          Ku-Ka Ilimoku
Rouse                          Bonham
Takemitsu                  Rain Tree
Trevino                        Into the Air
Trevino                        Catching Shadows
Westlake                     Omphalo Centric Lecture
Zivkovic                       Trio Per Uno
 
Advanced
 
Bartok                         Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion
Becker                        Mudra
Cage                           Third Construction
Deane                         Vespertine Formations
Harrison                      Fugue
Husa                           Three Dances Sketches
Lansky                        Threads
Lang                            The So Called Laws of Nature
Laurello                       Spine
Levitan                        Marimba Quartet
Masklanka                  Crown of Thorns
Mellits                          Gravity
Reich                           Drumming Part 1
Reich                           Mallet Quartet
Reich                           Six Marimbas
Snowden                    A Man with a Gun Lives Here
Stucky                         Refrains
Tompkins                   Blue Burn
Varese                         Ionisation
Xenakis                       Okho
Xenakis                       Pleadis
Zappa                         The Black Page
 
World Percussion

Method Books and Resources

Bergamo                    ​The Art and Joy of Hand Drumming
Kruspe                         The Bodhrán Primer ​(w/mp3)
Kruspe                         
Playing the Tune (​ w/mp3),  [bodhrán]
Resende                      Maracatu : baque virado e baque solto
Uribe                            The Essence of Afro-Cuban Percussion & Drum Set

Uribe                            The Essence of Brazilian Percussion and Drum Set
Velez                            The Fantastic World of Frame Drums

Solo Literature

Akiho                           
Omnipresent ​(tenor steel pan solo) 
Damm                         Ritmos de Congas
Holly                             You're Makin' Me Dizzy (conga duet)
Menge                         
Juniper Ridge (lead pan)
Robinson                    Handful (bendir)
Savage                        Desert Celebration (djembe duet)
Teague                        
​Raindrops (tenor steel pan solo)
Williams                      ​Bodhran Dance
Williams                      
Four Solos for Frame Drums
Williams                      Recital Suite for Djembe

Reference Books

Blades                         Percussion Instruments and Their History​
Chenoweth                ​
The Marimbas of Guatemala
Cirone/Sinai               The Logic of It All
​
Clark ​                           
Connecticut’s Fife & Drum Tradition​
Cook                            Teaching Percussion 
Green/Gallwey          The Inner Game of Music
​
Hart/Stevens             Drumming at the Edge of Magic
Peters                          TheDrummer: Man
Schick                          
The Percussionist’s Art: Same Bed, Different Dreams
Siwe                             ​ArtfulNoise: Percussion Literature in the Twentieth Century
Tanner                         ​The Steel Band Game Plan​
Udow                           Percussion Pedagogy: a practical guide for studio teachers



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