Percussion Instruments and their History

By (author) James Blades By (author) Neil Percy By (author) Evelyn Glennie

Book cover: Percussion Instruments and their History

Extent: 624 pages

Publisher: Kahn & Averill

Subjects: Music & Performing Arts

Language: English

Paperback (Published)

(December 2020)

ISBN: 9780995757431

Price: $80.00

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For many years, James Blades’s famous book has been referred to as the percussionist’s bible. It is established as the definitive reference work on the subject. Last updated by the author in 2005 and now back in print, this extended edition includes two additional chapters. The first covers the rise of the solo percussionist by the world’s leading practitioner, Dame Evelyn Glennie who also contributes a new Foreword, while recent developments in orchestral percussion are covered by Neil Percy, Head of Timpani and Percussion at the Royal Academy of Music and Principal Percussionist of the London Symphony Orchestra.

  • By (author) James Blades
  • By (author) Neil Percy
  • By (author) Evelyn Glennie