The Working Timpanist's Survival Guide (book/Download PDF)

Publisher: Carl Fischer
A Practical Approach to Audition Excerpts for the Orchestral Timpanist
PDF files with the complete timpani parts

This book contains 22 of the most frequently excerpts requested at auditions today.
Contains carefully illustrated excerpts, insightful photos, and PDF files containing the complete timpani parts. Each excerpt is explained with care.
For the timpanist who might be learning orchestral repertoire for the first time, while the professional timpanist will also enjoy the variety of musical and technical options presented in this book.

Options include: edited dynamics for balance considerations, changes in drum arrangement, stockings, illustrations, and other items of interest. The repertoire in this volume is the most commonly requested music at auditions today.

  - Mozart: Symphony No. 39
  - Beethoven: Symphony no. 1
  - Beethoven: Symphony no.3
  - Beethoven: Symphony no.5
  - Beethoven: Symphony no.7
  - Beethoven: Symphony no.8
  - Beethoven: Symphony no.9
  - Brahms: Symphony no. 1
  - Brahms: Symphony no. 4
  - Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet Overture Fantasy
  - Tchaikovsky: Symphony no. 4
  - Elger: Enigma Variations
  - Hindemith: Symphonic Metamorphoses
  - R. Strauss: Death and Transfiguration
  - R. Strauss: Burleske for Piano and Orchestra
  - Bartok: Concerto for Orchestra
  - Bartok: Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta
  - Shostakovich: Symphony no. 1
  - Mahler: Symphony no. 5
  - W. Schuman: New England Triptych
  - Stravinsky: Rite of Spring
  - Wagner: Siegfried's Funeral Music from Götterdämmerung