30 Etüden für Pauken, komponiert vom Solopauker des Philharmonischen Orchesters des Niederländischen Rundfunks. Jede Studie enthält Material zur Entwicklung von Technik und Flexibilität in Kombination mit Spieltradition und einer Vielfalt an musikalischen Stilen und Klangfarben. Einige Stücke eignen sich alleine oder als Etüdenfolge auch zur Aufführung. Alle Etüden enthalten Hinweise zur Interpretation und Instrumentenwahl.
After his first book Musical Studies for pedal timpani,
published in 1983, it took a long time to find the time to write its
successor "Symphonic Studies for Timpani". November
1999 has seen the release of this first volume, published as part of De
Haske percussion series, which compasses a complete educational
percussion program. A worldwide release has taken place in the course of
2000.
The studies in this book are based on symphonic repertoire or related
to it and composed for training and guiding the serious timpani
student. They contain a lot of basic practice material but most of them
can also be played as a performance piece or a little suite of studies.
As in the tradition of strong timpani methods like Knauer and
Hochrainer, I have endeavored to write challenging and demanding studies
that have a seemingly simple structure, like a timpani part in the
repertoire, but need to be played with the utmost precision and delicacy
as well as with the charisma that so often is part of the character
given to timpani music. Every study contains rhythmic and musical
material that is focused on the world of today's timpanist.
The development of technique, touché and flexibility, in combination
with tradition of playing and awareness of musical style and color, have
been integrated in every study. To help the timpanist achieve as much
experience as possible without playing in an orchestra, I've tried to
approach the musical atmosphere and reality as closely as possible. This
book contains a six languages text [Dutch, English, French, German,
Italian and Spanish] with every study, to touch on its difficulty or
relationship to the repertoire. Already the studies from this book are
used as requested audition material by several orchestra's and
organizations.
Volume II seems to develop in a collection of more demanding studies
and
Musical Studies for pedal Timpani presents a scope of pedaling
excersizes and studies for 1, 2, 3 or 4 pedal timpani and touches upon
all fast tuning problems in the repertoire. Short but very demanding
studies, that require a serious organistation and virtuoso pedaling
skills. Again, the musical aspect of our vocation has not been forgotten
and forms an integral part of the book's studies.