Percusión sinfónica: guía de recursos técnicos, sonoros y escritura

Abstract

The following Project “Symphonic percussion: Technical guide, sound and writting resources” is of a collection of theoretical and practical information about the physiognomy, production of the sound, technique of performance, specific writing, tuning, add-ons, means of performance of various symphonic percussion instruments, focused on the practical use of the material from musicians, arrangers, conductors and percussionists that are interested in this branch of the music. This work has been developed in four chapters. Beginning with a description of the physiognomy and the production of the sound of this instruments, thus laying the foundation on which we will develop the following chapters. As second point we present the technical possibilities by each instrument focusing on traditional and specific modes of performance on each. The third point talks about the use of sound complements, sticks and accessories that we use to play various instruments and also their combinations. Also we talk about the position and displacement in front of the instruments, taking into account with which we work and wide range of accessories, also their right use and specification on the scores, important issue when working with these instruments, on the last chapter we talk about the traditional and specific writing of the percussion family, explaining the nomenclature in several cases, it is also complemented this study with the topic of multiple percussion, specific topic of the percussion family, the location plans that relating to how to perform spatial position graph of instruments to the development of pieces of multiple percussion. Also we talk about a very important topic, the tuning, since membranophones instruments and idiophones have different and varied methods for this purpose. We created a list of instruments in various languages, this being of great help when we work with scores of different origin, also we bring, in addition, a guide providing practical advices when play or work with symphonic percussion instruments, focusing on the soloist, assembly or orchestral field