WORKING WITH JAZZ PERCUSSIONISTS IN THE VIBRAPHONE CLASS by BEREZOVICOVA TATIANA, MIHAILOVA ZOIA

“…The authors examine problems specific to studying the vibraphone by the percussion­ist that work in the field of light music and jazz such as setting the interpretative apparatus, forming the repertoire, overcoming some technical difficulties in the process of assimilating the instructive-didactic programme etc.…”
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Inner sense of rhythm: percussionist brain activity during rhythmic encoding and synchronization by Yin-Chun Liao, Yin-Chun Liao, Ching-Ju Yang, Ching-Ju Yang, Hsin-Yen Yu, Chiu-Jung Huang, Tzu-Yi Hong, Tzu-Yi Hong, Tzu-Yi Hong, Wei-Chi Li, Wei-Chi Li, Wei-Chi Li, Li-Fen Chen, Li-Fen Chen, Li-Fen Chen, Jen-Chuen Hsieh, Jen-Chuen Hsieh, Jen-Chuen Hsieh, Jen-Chuen Hsieh

Subjects: “…percussionist…”
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The songbird as a percussionist: syntactic rules for non-vocal sound and song production in Java sparrows. by Masayo Soma, Chihiro Mori

“…We show that male Java sparrows coordinate their bill-click sounds with the syntax of their song-note sequences, similar to percussionists. Analysis showed that they produced clicks frequently toward the beginning of songs and before/after specific song notes. …”
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Musician’s dystonia in a percussionist – clinical video analysis and botulinum toxin intervention: a case report by Manuel Tomás Farinha Caroço, Ana Zão, Júlia Ribeiro, Ana Fialho, Victor Milet, Bruna Meira

“…We report here the case of a 63-year-old male, percussionist, with african ethnicity, with musician’s focal hand dystonia who was treated with botulinum toxin, and describe the results at 4-weeks follow up. …”
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Estudo da audição de ritmistas de uma escola de samba de São Paulo Study of the hearing of percussionists of a samba school from São Paulo by Viviane Maria Monteiro, Alessandra Giannella Samelli

“…CONCLUSION: Four percussionists of the samba school had some degree of hearing loss.…”
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Jon Savage, This Searing Light, The Sun and Everything Else: Joy Division The Oral History; Stephen Morris, Record Play Pause: Confessions of a Post-Punk Percussionist. Volume 1 by Dennis Kersten

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Action and familiarity effects on self and other expert musicians’ Laban effort-shape analyses of expressive bodily behaviors in instrumental music performance: A case study approa... by Mary C Broughton, Jane W Davidson

“…Two professional percussionists and experienced marimba players, and one professional classical singer took part in the study. …”
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Transkripsi Musik Gong Timor Menggunakan Continous Wavelet Transform (CWT) by Yovinia C H Siki, Yoyon K Suprapto

“…With this transcription, new percussionist of gong can learn more easily to playing gong instrument.Analyzing music gong are more difficult than any other music instrument, it is because gong instrument created withvery simple tools and the percussionist playing this instrument by feelings of any other instrument in gamelan. …”
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Automatic assessment of percussion rhythm imitation by Bachhas, Nikita

“…Percussion instruments are an essential part of any music, in any genre. Percussionists often spend years learning to master a singular instrument and the training required to be a professional percussionist is rigorous. …”
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Ütőhangszerek nyomában koncertterem és színház között by Márta-Adrienne Elekes

“…The answers to my ‘percussion’ themed scientific curiosity, besides the published or unpublished scores were to be found in the composer’s manuscripts/drafts, in some references from his published to be studies, as well as talking with the percussionist who regularly played at the opening nights of Szabó’s creations.…”
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Dancing the Ritual on the Kūṭiyāṭṭam Theatre Stage by Virginie Johan

“…Until the 1960s, Kūṭiyāṭṭam**—India’s Sanskrit theatre—was exclusively performed in Hindu temples of Kerala by an ensemble of three ritual performers of high status: the Cākyār actor-master, the Nampyār percussionist, and the Naṅṅyār reciter, cymbalist and actress. …”
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Timing Variations in Two Balkan Percussion Performances by Daniel Goldberg

“…Melodic organization also seems relevant to the timing of beats and measures on a recording of Bulgarian percussionist Mitko Popov playing the tŭpan, a double-headed bass drum, in a small folk music ensemble. …”
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The Transnationalization of the Akan Religion: Religion and Identity among the U.S. African American Community by Pauline Guedj

“…In 1965, Gus Dinizulu, an African American percussionist, traveled to Ghana with the dance company he was leading. …”
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The Wonder of Delays by Alexandra T. Vazquez

“…For example, listening and watching along with Fiol-Matta to Lucecita and superCuban percussionist Cándido Camero play together, like that (go there), on the Ed Sullivan show 1970. …”
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Accuracy of Tempo Judgments in Disk Jockeys Compared to Musicians and Untrained Individuals by Nicholas E. V. Foster, Nicholas E. V. Foster, Nicholas E. V. Foster, Lauriane Beffa, Lauriane Beffa, Alexandre Lehmann, Alexandre Lehmann, Alexandre Lehmann

“…Percussionists were more accurate than controls for 100–119 and 120–139 BPM. …”
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Pitch perfect : a study on the influence of musician type on linguistic pitch processing by Bong, Jacqueline Michelle Mei-En

“…The current study explores the effects of wind musicians vs. percussionists on linguistic tone processing. English-Chinese Singaporean bilingual undergraduates aged between 22 and 25 who are all musicians playing either a wind musician or a percussive instrument completed a series of Cantonese tone perception and production tasks. …”
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Inferring Drumhead Damping and Tuning from Sound Using Finite Difference Time Domain (FDTD) Models by Chrisoula Alexandraki, Michael Starakis, Panagiotis Zervas, Rolf Bader

“…Percussionists use a multitude of objects and materials, mounted on their instruments, to achieve a satisfying sound texture. …”
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The dominance of haptics over audition in controlling wrist velocity during striking movements by Cao, Y, Giordano, B, Avanzini, F, McAdams, S

“…How multisensory information feeds back into the fine-tuning of sound-generating actions remains unexplored. Participants (percussionists, non-percussion musicians, or non-musicians) held a stylus and learned to control their wrist velocity while repeatedly striking a virtual sounding object whose surface stiffness was under computer control. …”

A Boastful Man Borne by a Brave Woman: The Mubila Epic of the Lega (Democratic Republic of the Congo) by Brunhilde Biebuyck

“…Together with his apprentice and four percussionists, Kambala Mubila recounted, sang, and dramatized the narrative over several days to a large group of interactive participants. …”
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THE DAILY CLASSROOM AS A SPACE FOR NARRATIVE SELF INSIDE OF CORAL SINGING LESSONS IN A SOCIAL PROJECT by Helena Doris Sala, Ana Lúcia Louro

“…The text also examines the conflicts present in practice in social projects (KATER, 2004; KLEBER, 2006, 2008;); questions the practice of choral singing (AMATO, 2007; TEIXEIRA, 2008), recounts classroom situations, focusing on professional identities involved in changing practices for achieving teenagers to class percussionists of choral singing.…”
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