Percussion Section Requirements and Assignments: E-H

Elgar, Sir Edward

• Cockaigne Overture (Timpani + 4/5)
  • Timpani
  • Player 1: Snare Drum, Tambourine
  • Player 2: Triangle
  • Player 3: Sleighbells (can be eliminated if played simultaneously by Player 2)
  • Player 4: Bass Drum
  • Player 5: Crash Cymbals

• Variations on an Original Theme, "Enigma" (Timpani+3)
  • Timpani
  • Player 1: Snare Drum and Triangle (may also need to assist the timpanist in the 13th variation "***".)
  • Player 2: Bass Drum
  • Player 3: Crash and Suspended Cymbal

Faure, Gabriel

• Requiem (Timpani)

Gershwin, George

• An American In Paris (Timpani+4)
  *It is possible for all taxi horn parts to be consolidated and played by the bass drum.
  • Timpani
  • Snare Drum, Lg. and Small Tom-Tom, Taxi Horns (C-A), Wood Block, Wire Brush
  • Bass Drum & Triangle
  • Cymbals & Taxi Horns (B-D)
  • Xylophone and Bells

• Cuban Overture (Timpani+7)
  • Timpani
  • Snare Drum, Xylophone, Bells (2 players)
  • Bass Drum
  • Bongos (Cuban Tom-Toms)
  • Gourd
  • Maracas

• I Got Rhythm Variations
  *The part could concievably be played by two percussionists, one mallet player and a "trap drummer". Although no timpani part was in the manuscript, there were instructions for an added 'C' roll before reh. 2 in the parts at my disposal.
  • Bells, Xylophone
  • Susp. Cymbal, Ratchet, SD, BD, Chinese Gong, Woodblock, (1 timpano?)

• arr. Bennett: Porgy and Bess, A Symphonic Picture (Timpani + 3)
  
  • Timpani
  • Three Players with: Triangle, Snare Drum, Woodblock, Bass Drum, Crash Cymbals, Suspended Cymbal, Chimes, Xylophone, Bells, Large Deep Bell

• arr. Grofe: Rhapsody in Blue (2 Players)
  • Player 1: Drumset, Cymbals
  • Player 2: Timpani, Bells, Gong, Triangle, Cymbals

Hindemith, Paul

• Symphonic Metamorphosis on Themes of Carl Maria von Weber (Timpani + 4)
  • Player 1: SD, Tambourine, Chimes (low A-C-D-F), Ruhrtrommel
  • Player 2: Glockenspiel, Triangle, Tom-Tom
  • Player 3: BD, Small Gong
  • Player 4: Cymbals, Suspended Cymbal, Woodblock

Honegger, Arthur

• King David (Timpani + 2 or 3)
  *If the timpanist will play percussion in two movments (#12 and #13), this can be done with two percussionists.
  • 2 Timpani, SD, Tambourin Provencal, BD, Suspended Cymbal, Crash Cymbals, Tam-Tam

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