Timpani Soloist

Sandy Feldstein

General Info

Year:
Duration: c.
Difficulty: (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Alfred
Cost: Score and Parts - $0.00   |   Score Only - $0.00

Instrumentation

Timpani
Piano

Content

1. Quarters
2. Count Down
3. Farewell to Summer
4. Onward Christian Soldiers
5. Variations
6. Andantino
6. Thanksgiving Song
7. Waltz Themes
8. Ups and Downs
9. Folk Song Melodies
10. My Wild Irish Rose
11. Skaters' Waltz
12. Sleeping Beauty Waltz
13. Sunshine
14. When the Saints Go Marching In
15. Aura Lee
16. O Come All Ye Faithful
17. All Through The Night
18. College March
19. Military Melodies
20. Rondo For Timpani
21. Merry Widow Waltz
22. The Glow Worm
23. Stars and Stripes Forever
24. French Song
25. Syncopated Waltz

Program Notes

Although the timpani is seldom used as a solo instrument, a solo book for timpani is included in the Belwin "STUDENT INSTRUMENTAL COURSE" to give the drum student the same incentives, experiences and benefits received by students of other instruments from solo playing. Most of the solos have a piano accompaniment.

Review

Timpani, in the Firth/Feldstein Percussion Series, is a comprehensive method containing warm-up exercises, etudes and solo performance material. Each of the 18 lessons in this 32-page text begins with a brief explanation of the new material featured, followed by warm-up exercises, an etude utilizing the new material, and timpani accompaniments to familiar pieces that include a wide sample of music from operatic and classical sources (e.g. "Carmen" and the "Theme From William Tell Overture"), to Dixieland tunes ("When the Saints Go Marching In" and "Bill Bailey, Won't You Please Come Home"). Topics covered in the text range from musical matters including dynamics, rhythmic notation, time signatures and tuning, to issues of technique building such as tied and untied rolls, muffling and cross sticking. This text offers the flexibility of use as both a method for individual instruction or, by linking to one, two or three other method books in the Firth/Feldstein Percussion Series (for snare drum, keyboard and accessory percussion) as a class percussion text. This flexibility should make the method especially valuable to school music instructors, who can use it in a variety of pedagogical settings. In fact, certain combinations will make some of the material even more relevant. For example, when used with the keyboard text, the timpanist will be able to hear the melodies that he or she is accompanying, giving the student tuning experiences like those encountered in a live performance. For this reason, the inclusion of a play-along CD with all the tunes, for use when the book is utilized as an individual timpani method, would have made a valuable text even more useful. - John R. Raush, August 2002

Recent Performances

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Books for Percussion by this Composer

Vic Firth Percussion Series

Vic Firth/Sandy Feldstein Percussion Series - Accessory Percussion
Vic Firth/Sandy Feldstein Percussion Series - Keyboard Percussion
Vic Firth/Sandy Feldstein Percussion Series - Snare Drum
Vic Firth/Sandy Feldstein Percussion Series - Timpani

Belwin Student Instrumental Course

Drum Student (Student Instrumental Course, Level 1)
Drum Student (Student Instrumental Course, Level 2)
Drum Student (Student Instrumental Course, Level 3)
Timpani Student (Student Instrumental Course, Level 1)
Timpani Student (Student Instrumental Course, Level 2)
Timpani Student (Student Instrumental Course, Level 3)
Mallet Student (Student Instrumental Course, Level 1)
Mallet Student (Student Instrumental Course, Level 2)
Mallet Student (Student Instrumental Course, Level 3)
Studies and Etudes for Timpani
Timpani Soloist
Mallet Soloist
Drum Soloist

Yamaha Band Student

Percussion---Snare Drum, Bass Drum, Accessories Book(Yamaha Band Student, Book 1)
Percussion---Snare Drum, Bass Drum, Accessories Book(Yamaha Band Student, Book 2)
Keyboard Percussion (Yamaha Band Student, Book 1)
Keyboard Percussion (Yamaha Band Student, Book 2)

Learn to Play Series

Learn to Play Keyboard Percussion!
Learn to Play the Snare and Bass Drum!

Alfred’s Beginning Drumset Method

Works for Percussion by this Composer

15 Percussion Ensembles - Percussion Quartet
Adler's Advanced Percussion Solos, Book 1 - Snare Drum
Adler's Elementary Percussion Solos, Book 1 - Snare Drum
Adler's Intermediate Percussion Solos, Book 1 - Snare Drum
Beginning Snare Drum Duets - Snare Drums (2)
Bhairava - Drumset
Circling - Snare Drum; Piano
Crazy Rhythm - Percussion Quintet
Fascinating Rhythm - Percussion Quintet
Ice Storm - Xylophone; Piano
Mallet Percussion Soloist - Mallets
Multiple Percussion Music - Multiple Percussion
One and Two - Snare Drum; Piano
Picking up Six - Snare Drum; Piano
Sea Sounds - Marimba; Piano
Smoothly - Timpani; Piano
The New Military - Snare Drum; Piano
Three Keys - Timpani; Piano
Time Table - Drumset; Band
Tune Up - Timpani; Piano
Two and Four - Xylophone; Piano
Variations on a Four Note Theme - Percussion Sextet
Vic Firth Timpani Solo Series: Advanced - Timpani; Piano
Vic Firth Timpani Solo Series: Elementary - Timpani; Piano
Vic Firth Timpani Solo Series: Intermediate - Timpani; Piano
Water's Edge - Xylophone; Piano
Wind-Swept - Timpani; Piano