Download or read book The Percussionist's Art written by Steven Schick and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2006 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Percussionist's Art: Same Bed, Different Dreams examines major works from the solo and chamber repertoire for percussion, from Edgard Varese's Ionisation (1931) and Cage's First Construction (in Metal) (1939) to Morton Feldman's The King of Denmark (1964), Steve Reich's Drumming (1971), Bone Alphabet by Brian Ferneyhough (1991), and Corporel (1985), a piece by Vinko Globokar for percussionist performing on his or her amplified body."--BOOK JACKET.