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Percussion Literature & Pedagogy

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Internet Resources

Music Library Webpage - your gateway to:

• GIL - CSU library catalog (what CSU owns, e.g. books, scores, media, journal titles)
• GALILEO - state-wide collection of electronic resources (a wide variety of databases, strong in education, though generally weak in the area of music).
  • Suggested Headings/Tabs: K-12, Arts & Humanities, Social Sciences, Internet Resources
  • Suggested Databases: Dissertation Abstracts , ERIC (Education Resources Information Center) , netLibrary
• KCDL Index Online (Kraus Curriculum Development Library for Educators)
• The Music Index - international music periodical index
• Grove Music Online
• Other related Internet sites, e.g.:
  • Music Library Online Resources
  • Drum Lessons
  • Modern Drummer Online
  • Percussive Arts Society

LC Classification

Describes how the print collection is arranged on the shelves (important for "browsing" the stacks)

Percussion

• Bibliography: ML128.P23
• Discography: ML156.4.P4
• Dictionaries: ML102.P4
• History and criticism: ML1030-ML1040
• Construction: ML1031
• Instruction and study: MT655-MT722
• Music: M145+
  
  • for children: M1385.P5
  • with
    • orchestra (Solo): M1038+; M1138+
    • piano: M284.P4+

LC Subject Headings

Terms which may be used in a GIL "subject heading" search (helps you focus a search to a particular topic; especially useful when not searching for a specific author or title, but a keyword search would bring up too many extraneous hits).

• MUSIC-INSTRUCTION & STUDY
• MUSIC-PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECTS
• SCHOOL MUSIC-INSTRUCTION & STUDY
• Instruments, e.g. DRUM, KETTLEDRUM, etc.
• PERCUSSION ENSEMBLES
• PERCUSSION INSTRUMENTS
• PERCUSSION INSTRUMENTS-CATALOGS & COLLECTIONS
• PERCUSSION INSTRUMENTS--CONSTRUCTION
• PERCUSSION INSTRUMENTS-DICTIONARIES
• PERCUSSION INSTRUMENTS-INSTRUCTION & STUDY
• PERCUSSION INSTRUMENTS-METHODS
• PERCUSSION INSTRUMENTS-REPAIRING
• PERCUSSION INSTRUMENTS-STUDY & TEACHING
• PERCUSSION MUSIC-BIBLIOGRAPHY
• PERCUSSION MUSIC-HISTORY & CRITICISM
• PERCUSSION MUSIC-INSTRUCTION & STUDY
• PERCUSSIONISTS
• RHYTHM BANDS AND ORCHESTRAS

From the Reference Collection:

Bibliographies, Graded Lists

• General:
• Duckles, V.H. & I. Reed. Music Reference and Research Materials: Ref ML113.D83 1997
• Harris, E.E. Music Education: A Guide to Information Sources: Ref ML19.H37
• Kantorski, V.J. A Bibliography of Source Readings in Music Education: Ref ML 128.I64K36 1997
• MENC. Selective Music Lists 1979: instrumental solos & Ensembles: Ref ML132.A2M882
• Percussion:
• Heller, G.N. Ensemble Music for Wind and Percussion Instruments: A Catalog: Ref ML128.W5H4

Current Periodicals

• American Music Teacher
• Journal of Research in Music Education
• Music Educators Journal
• Teaching Music

Dictionaries

• Heritage Encyclopedia of Band Music: Composers and their Music: Ref ML102.B35R4 1991 v.1-3
• Oxford Companion to Musical Instruments: Ref ML102.I5B34 1992

In the Stacks by Topic:

History & Performance

• Blades, J. Percussion Instruments and their History: ML1030.B6
• Brindle, R. Contemporary Percussion: ML1030.B75
• Peters, G. Drummer, man: a Treatise on Percussion: ML1030.P48
• Holland, J. Percussion: ML1030.H64

Pedagogy

• Blades, J. Orchestral Percussion Technique: MT655.B6
• Building Better Bands. A Manual for the Instrumental Music Teacher: MT733.B82x
• Martin, M. Snare Drum (video): VC 15
• MENC. Teaching wind & Percussion Instruments: MT172.T4 1991
• Mueller, A. Teaching Total Percussion: a Course of Study: MT655.M83
• Pottle, R.R. Tuning the School Band and Orchestra. Percussion and String Guides: MT165.P69
• Reed, O.H. Scoring for Percussion and the Instruments of the Percussion Section: MT70.R4

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