General Percussion Reference Works
A Dictionary for the Modern Percussionist and Drummer by Call Number: ONLINE & REF ML102 .P4 S277 2017
Dictionary of Percussion Terms: As Found in the Symphonic Repertoire by Call Number: REF ML102 .P4 L36 2000
Percussion: An Annotated Bibliography with Special Emphasis on Contemporary Notation and Performance by Call Number: REFERENCE ML128 .P23 B34 1988- Percussion Ensemble Literature by Call Number: REFERENCE ML128 .P23 S6 1998
- Percussion Solo Literature by Call Number: REFERENCE ML128 .P23 S63 1995
A Practical Guide to Percussion Terminology by Call Number: REFERENCE ML102 .P4 G57 1998
General Percussion Books & Histories
Artful Noise: Percussion Literature in the Twentieth Century by Call Number: ONLINE & ML1030 .S58 2020
The Cambridge Companion to Percussion by Call Number: ML1030 .C26 2016
Drums in the Americas by Call Number: ML1035 .H834 2000- Early Percussion Instruments: From the Middle Ages to the Baroque by Call Number: ML1030 .B58 1976
How to Write for Percussion: A Comprehensive Guide to percussion Cmoposition by Call Number: ONLINE
Percussion Instruments and Their History by Call Number: ML1030 .B6 1992
Practical Percussion: A Guide to the Instruments and Their Sources by Call Number: ML1030 .H65 2003
Science of Percussion Instruments by Call Number: ML3805 .R67 2000
Bass Drum, Cymbals, Accessories
The Cymbal Book by Call Number: ML1049 .P56 1992
The Triangle in Images by Call Number: ML85 .B47 2015 v.1-3
Snare Drum & Drum Set
The Cambridge Companion to the Drum Kit by Call Number: ML1035 .C27 2021
I Drum, Therefore I Am: Being and Becoming a Drummer by Call Number: ONLINE & ML3830 .S554 2013
Kick It: A Social History of the Drum Kit by Call Number: ML1035 .B73 2020
Uncharted: Creativity and the Expert Drummer by Call Number: ONLINE & ML1035 .B78 2018
Timpani
Symphonic Repertoire Guide for Timpani and Percussion by Call Number: REFERENCE ML128 .P23 C37 2005
Timpani and Percussion by Call Number: ML1035 .M66 2002x
Timpani Tone and the Interpretation of Baroque and Classical Music by Call Number: ONLINE & ML1036 .S38 2010
The Working Timpanist's Survival Guide by Call Number: MT660.4 .T34 W67 2005
World Percussion
The Bodhrán Book by Call Number: IN PROCESSING
Maintenance, Repair & Construction
- Maintenance and Repair of Wind and Percussion Instruments by Call Number: ML930 .S74 1976
Mallet Repair by Call Number: ML1048 .P74 2006- Percussion Crafts: A Handbook Service Manual [...] by Call Number: ML1031 .K84 1979
Percussion Instruments: Purchasing, Maintenance, Troubleshooting and More by Call Number: ML1030 .P74 2015ISBN: 9781574631326
Percussion Repair and Maintenance: A Performer's Technical manual by Call Number: ML1030 .B66 1986
Dissertations
Snare Drum & Drum Set
- Dissertations and Theses Global (ProQuest)
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Dissertations and theses from 1861 to the present with full text for most dissertations from 1997 and retrospective full-text coverage for older works.
- Drum Set as a Solo Artform: Developing the Percussionist through Solo Performance byCall Number: ONLINE (ProQuest)DMA, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, 2020
- Important Works for Solo Drum Set as a Multiple Percussion Instrument byCall Number: ONLINE (ProQuest)DMA, University of Iowa, 2012
- Nexus Portfolio for Snare Drum: Performance Practice and Historical Perspective byCall Number: ONLINE (ProQuest)DMA, University of Memphis, 2011
- The Snare Drum as a Solo Concert Instrument byCall Number: ONLINE (ProQuest)Ph.D., University of North Texas, 2004
Timpani
- A Comprehensive Method for Tuning and Pedaling Timpani byCall Number: ONLINE (ProQuest)DMA, University of Kentucky, 2015
- Early Timpani Performance Practice in Modern Solo repertoire byCall Number: ONLINE (ProQuest)DMA, University of Maryland, College Park, 2018
- The New Solo Timpanist: An Analysis of Selected Compositions from the 20th Century Featuring the Timpanist byCall Number: ONLINE (ProQuest)MA, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, 2012