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Book Review
Sep. 18th, 2019 09:19 pmThe Cambridge Companion to Percussion
edited by Russell Hartenberger
This is yet another in the excellent Cambridge Companion series. I especially enjoyed this volume because I love percussion music and percussion instruments yet do not have a lot of in-depth knowledge about them. The various chapters cover a wide range of percussion topics involving classical, jazz, popular, and world music. I especially enjoyed the chapters on drum set playing in jazz and popular music, and the examinations of the percussion instrument industry and the development and evolving use of the drum machine. The final chapter on the evolutionary origins and purposes of human's rhythmic sense was fascinating and I hope to find more material on this topic.
edited by Russell Hartenberger
This is yet another in the excellent Cambridge Companion series. I especially enjoyed this volume because I love percussion music and percussion instruments yet do not have a lot of in-depth knowledge about them. The various chapters cover a wide range of percussion topics involving classical, jazz, popular, and world music. I especially enjoyed the chapters on drum set playing in jazz and popular music, and the examinations of the percussion instrument industry and the development and evolving use of the drum machine. The final chapter on the evolutionary origins and purposes of human's rhythmic sense was fascinating and I hope to find more material on this topic.
