Works cited for percussion-oriented or general music scholarly sources.
Apel, Willi. The Notation of Polyphonic Music, 900-1600. 5th ed. Cambridge, MA: The Mediaeval Academy of American, 1953.
Beck, John. “Douce, Doux (Fr).” Encyclopedia of Percussion. New York: Garland Publishing, inc., 1995.
Blades, James and Jeremy Montagu. Early Percussion Instruments: from the Middle Ages to the Baroque. London: Oxford University Press, 1976.
Blades, James. Percussion Instruments and their History (1970). Westport, CT: The Bold Strummer, LTD., 1992.
Blades, James. “Percussion Instruments of the Middle Ages and Renaissance: Their History in Literature and Painting.” Early Music 1, no. 1 (Jan 1973), pp. 11-18.
Bloom, Ryan A. Rudimental Grand Tour: Drumming Across 22 International Traditions. MelBay, 2022.
Check out his website for more publications, especially some English translations of French and Swiss drum manuals.
Chandler, Eric Alan. “A History of Rudimental Drumming in American from the Revolutionary War to the Present.” PhD diss., Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College, 1990.
Collins, Michael. “The Performance of Triplets in the17th and 18th Centuries.” Journal of the American Musicological Society 19, no. 3 (Autumn 1966), pp. 281-328.
Cooper, John M. “Percussion Instruments and Their Usage.” A Performer’s Guide to Seventeenth-Century Music. Edited by Stewart Carter. Indiana University Press, 2012.
DeFord, Ruth. Tactus, Mensuration, and Rhythm in Renaissance Music. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015.
—. “Tempo Relationships between Duple and Triple Time in the Sixteenth Century.” Cambridge University Press 14 (1995): 1-51.
Galm, John K. “A Study of the Rudiments Used in Foreign Military Drumming Styles.” Percussionist, vol. 2, nos. 1 & 2 (February, 1965), pp. 10-26.
Gauthreaux II, Guy Gregoire. “Orchestral Snare Drum Performance: An Historical Study.” PhD diss., Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College, 1989.
Gleason, Bruce. “Cavalry and Court Trumpeters and Kettledrummers from the Renaissance to the Nineteenth Century.” The Galpin Society Journal 62 (April 2009): 31-54.
Grant, Roger M. “Epistemologies of Time and Metre in the Long Eighteenth Century.” Eighteenth-Century Music 6, no. 1 (2009): 59-75.
Grove’s A Dictionary of Music and Musicians. Edited by J. A. Fuller Maitland. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1906-10
Hadden, Nancy. “From Swiss Flutes to Consorts: History, Music and Playing Techniques of the Transverse Flute in Switzerland, Germany and France ca. 1470-1640.” PhD diss., The University of Leeds, 2010.
Herissone, Rebecca. Music Theory in Seventeenth-Century England. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000.
Herissone, Rebecca and Alan Howard. Concepts of Creativity in Seventeenth-Century England. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2013.
Marx, Josef. “The Tone of the Baroque Oboe: An Interpretation of the History of Double-Reed Instruments.” The Galpin Society Journal 4 (Jun, 1951): 3-19.
Montagu, Jeremy. “Beating the Drum: The Early Timpani.” Oxford University Press 36, no. 1 (Feb 2008): 163-165.
—. Timpani and Percussion. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002.
Neumann, Frederick. “Changing Times: Meter, Denominations, and Tempo in Music of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries.” Historical Performance 6, no. 1 (Jan 1993): 23-29.
Powell, Ardal. The Flute. Yale University Press, 2002.
Quantz, Johann Joachim. On Playing the Flute: The Classic of Baroque Music Instruction. 1752. Ed. Edward R. Reilly. 2nd ed. Northeastern University Press, 2001.
I’m looking for more resources to develop my discussion of ‘History of the Snare Drum’ and ‘Tempo in Historic Music’.
Check out those pages and contact me if you have any resources that might help.
For any sources without links: If you know where to download free or purchase a copy, please let me know.