Everything a percussionist and conductor needs to know about the percussion parts to Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring.

Since the piece was written, there have been countless revisions and discrepancies in the percussion writing. This book helps to provide historical context throughout the many scores and provide the percussionist with a roadmap for:

1. Choosing the right instruments

2. Choosing an ideal set up, especially for the timpanists

3. Practical performer considerations within the context of real orchestral experience

4. Historical context that helps all of the above

5. Thinking about the specific sounds for each instrument’s part

6. Options for performing certain passages

7. Musical examples providing harmonic and rhythmic context with other percussion instruments and the rest of the orchestra

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