Kendor Music

This collection contains 8 Orff pieces playable by classroom students. The teaching suggestions offered for each piece will get your students playing music right from the first day.

Series Timpani Solo. Grade 2 Features Timpani Solo (Unaccompanied). Big Kettles is a grade 2 timpani solo that provides the beginning timpanist with a piece that gives them the feeling of playing a re...

Series Timpani Solo. Grade 2 Features Timpani Solo (Unaccompanied). Big Kettles is a grade 2 timpani solo that provides the beginning timpanist with a piece that gives them the feeling of playing a re...

Series Timpani Solo. Grade 3+ Features Timpani Solo (Unaccompanied). This lively, rhythmic piece requires three timpani and is exciting for performers and audiences alike. No tuning changes are necess...

Series Timpani Solo. Grade 3+ Features Timpani Solo (Unaccompanied). This lively, rhythmic piece requires three timpani and is exciting for performers and audiences alike. No tuning changes are necess...

Series Timpani Solo. Grade 4 Features Timpani Solo (Unaccompanied) . This dynamic, contest-calibre solo for grade 4 timpanists features the traditional technique of crossing one mallet over the other...

The eight solos contained in this grade 3-5 collection are suitable for any performing venue or pedagogy. Techniques of tuning, muffling, double-stops and staccato-legato are employed. Styles include...

Series Timpani Solo. Grade 4+ Features Timpani Solo (Unaccompanied). This grade 4+ timpani solo incorporates a variety of rhythms from both Latin and funk music - very common in drum set playing. In a...

Series Timpani Solo. Grade 4+ Features Timpani Solo (Unaccompanied). This grade 4+ timpani solo incorporates a variety of rhythms from both Latin and funk music - very common in drum set playing. In a...

This original explores an exciting array of musical concepts, including tempo changes, mixed meters, metric modulations, dynamic contrasts, and melodic fragments. They all come together in a grade 5 t...

We welcome Patrick Moore to the Kendor family of writers with this grade 3+ timpani solo. This piece was inspired by his son Gavin, as he was learning to walk. To be played with a lot of energy and ex...

We welcome Patrick Moore to the Kendor family of writers with this grade 3+ timpani solo. This piece was inspired by his son Gavin, as he was learning to walk. To be played with a lot of energy and ex...

Series Timpani Solo. Grade 5-6 Features Timpani Solo (Unaccompanied). The six solos in this collection were inspired by the nicknames of some of the greatest baseball players of all time - all inducte...

Series Timpani Solo. Grade 5-6 Features Timpani Solo (Unaccompanied). The six solos in this collection were inspired by the nicknames of some of the greatest baseball players of all time - all inducte...

John Beck, head of the percussion department at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester (NY) has written 'The Jury', containing all the musical and technical concepts of classical timpani performing....

John Beck, head of the percussion department at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester (NY) has written 'The Jury', containing all the musical and technical concepts of classical timpani performing....

This solo collection for contest, recital, audition and lessons presents ten solo originals. 8 are written for two timpani, and 2 are written for three drums. Only the last solo requires just a few tu...

This solo collection for contest, recital, audition and lessons presents ten solo originals. 8 are written for two timpani, and 2 are written for three drums. Only the last solo requires just a few tu...

Featuring a variety of meters and styles, this contemporary contest piece is not a conventional suite since there are no distinct breaks between sections. Requires four timpani.

Series Timpani Solo. Grade 3-4 Features Timpani Solo (Unaccompanied). This collection of solos ranges in difficulty level from grade 3-4 and is ideally suited to festival, recital, and lesson use. Eac...

Series Timpani Solo. Grade 6 Features Timpani Solo (Unaccompanied)

Series Timpani Solo. Grade 6 Features Timpani Solo (Unaccompanied)

Series Timpani Solo. Grade 6 Features Timpani Solo (Unaccompanied)

Intended as a follow-up to Murray's collection for young timpanists, the solos in this volume present developing players with a mix of technical challenges-- pitch changes, rolls, staccato and legato...

Written to provide young timpanists with quality recital and contest music, this collection of 10 stylistically diverse pieces develops such skills as rolling, muffling, playing double-stops, tuning c...