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 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
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
Carroll Exercises, Etudes, and Solos for the Timpani
Delecluse 20 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
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
Dinicu-Heifetz Hora Staccato (2 mallets)
Fieldman Northampton
Ford Marimba: Technique Through Music (collection)
Gipson Prayer
Glennie A Little Prayer
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
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
Ford The Green Road
Ford Polaris
Levitan Marimba Suite #2
Maslanka My Lady White
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
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
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 Timpani
Deane Prelude I for Four Timpani
Houllif Four Verses for Timpani
Igelsrud Soundings
Kraft Variations for King George
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
Intermediate to Advanced
Cangelosi Ogre Ballet
Cangelosi Sick 6erpent
Feldman The King of Denmark
Finley Blade
Hollinden Cold Pressed
Rzewski To the Earth
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
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
Method 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
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
Carroll Exercises, Etudes, and Solos for the Timpani
Delecluse 20 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
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
Dinicu-Heifetz Hora Staccato (2 mallets)
Fieldman Northampton
Ford Marimba: Technique Through Music (collection)
Gipson Prayer
Glennie A Little Prayer
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
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
Ford The Green Road
Ford Polaris
Levitan Marimba Suite #2
Maslanka My Lady White
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
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
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 Timpani
Deane Prelude I for Four Timpani
Houllif Four Verses for Timpani
Igelsrud Soundings
Kraft Variations for King George
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
Intermediate to Advanced
Cangelosi Ogre Ballet
Cangelosi Sick 6erpent
Feldman The King of Denmark
Finley Blade
Hollinden Cold Pressed
Rzewski To the Earth
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
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
