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[[Sandy Feldstein]]

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== General Info ==

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'''Publisher''': [[Alfred]]<br /-->
'''Cost''': Score and Parts - $0.00  &nbsp;&nbsp;|&nbsp;&nbsp; Score Only - $0.00<br /-->


== Instrumentation ==
[[Timpani]]<br>
[[Piano]]<br>




== Content ==
1. Quarters<br>
2. Count Down<br>
3. Farewell to Summer<br>
4. Onward Christian Soldiers<br>
5. Variations<br>
6. Andantino<br>
6. Thanksgiving Song<br>
7. Waltz Themes<br>
8. Ups and Downs<br>
9. Folk Song Melodies<br>
10. My Wild Irish Rose<br>
11. Skaters' Waltz<br>
12. Sleeping Beauty Waltz<br>
13. Sunshine<br>
14. When the Saints Go Marching In<br>
15. Aura Lee<br>
16. O Come All Ye Faithful<br>
17. All Through The Night<br>
18. College March<br>
19. Military Melodies<br>
20. Rondo For Timpani<br>
21. Merry Widow Waltz<br>
22. The Glow Worm<br>
23. Stars and Stripes Forever<br>
24. French Song<br>
25. Syncopated Waltz<br>

== Program Notes ==
Although the [[timpani]] is seldom used as a solo instrument, a solo book for [[timpani]] is included in the Belwin "STUDENT INSTRUMENTAL COURSE" to give the drum student the same incentives, experiences and benefits received by students of other instruments from solo playing. Most of the solos have a piano accompaniment. 

=== Review ===
[[Timpani]], in the Firth/Feldstein Percussion Series, is a comprehensive method containing warm-up exercises, etudes and solo performance material. Each of the 18 lessons in this 32-page text begins with a brief explanation of the new material featured, followed by warm-up exercises, an etude utilizing the new material, and timpani accompaniments to familiar pieces that include a wide sample of music from operatic and classical sources (e.g. "Carmen" and the "Theme From William Tell Overture"), to Dixieland tunes ("When the Saints Go Marching In" and "Bill Bailey, Won't You Please Come Home"). Topics covered in the text range from musical matters including dynamics, rhythmic notation, time signatures and tuning, to issues of technique building such as tied and untied rolls, muffling and cross sticking. This text offers the flexibility of use as both a method for individual instruction or, by linking to one, two or three other method books in the Firth/Feldstein Percussion Series (for snare drum, keyboard and accessory percussion) as a class percussion text. This flexibility should make the method especially valuable to school music instructors, who can use it in a variety of pedagogical settings. In fact, certain combinations will make some of the material even more relevant. For example, when used with the keyboard text, the timpanist will be able to hear the melodies that he or she is accompanying, giving the student tuning experiences like those encountered in a live performance. For this reason, the inclusion of a play-along CD with all the tunes, for use when the book is utilized as an individual timpani method, would have made a valuable text even more useful. - John R. Raush, August 2002<ref>http://www.pas.org/resources/research/ResearchCompos.aspx Acessed May 22, 2015</ref>

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== Books for Percussion by this Composer ==
{{Feldstein, Sandy Books}}<br>

== Works for Percussion by this Composer ==
{{Feldstein, Saul Works}}<br>

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