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Avgerinos, Gerassimos. Handbuch der Schlag-und Effektinstrumente. Frankfurt: 
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Bajzek, Dieter. Percussion: An Annotated Bibliography with Special Emphasis on 
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Blades, James. Orchestral Percussion Technique. 2nd ed. New York: Oxford 
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_____________. Percussion Instruments and Their History. London: Faber, 1975.

Contemporary Percussion, Performers' Perspectives. Ed. by Bob Becker. 
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Cook, Gary. Teaching Percussion. NY: Schirmer Books, 1988. One of the most
comprehensive texts on teaching percussion instruments. Cook discusses
compositional trends, notation, and composer's uses of percussion. George
Crumb's music is mentioned in each of these captions.

Garfias, Robert. "The Marimba of Mexico and Central America." Latin
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Goslin, S.B. The ABCs of Musical Handbell Ringing. New York: Oxford 
University Press, 1975.

Holland, James. Percussion. New York: Schirmer Books, 1981.

Kaptain, Laurence D. "The Wood that Sings:" The Marimba in Chiapas, Mexico.
Everett, Pennsylvania: Honeyrock, 1992.

Kotonski, Wlodzimierz. Schlagenintstrumente im Modernen Orchester. Mainz: 
Schott, 1968.

Lord, Francis A. and Arthur Wise. Bands and Drummer Boys of the Civil
War. NY: Da Capo Press, 1979.

Mezza, Fernando. Percussion Discography. NY: Garland Press, 1990.

Peinkofer, Karl and Fritz Tannigel. Handbook of Percussion Instruments. 
Translated from the the original German by Kurt and Else Stone. Mainz: Schott,
1976.

Reed, H. Owen and Joel T. Leach. Scoring for Percussion. Englewood Cliffs, 
NJ: Prentice Hall, 1969.

Smith-Brindle, Reginald. Contemporary Percussion. 2nd ed. New York: Oxford 
University Press, 1991.

Shaughnessy, Ed. The new time signatures in jazz drumming. New York, 
N.Y.: H. Adler; Belwin Mills Pub. Corp. 1966.