Name: Charles Moe
Competency: B4
Artifact Title: Percussion
Artifact Type: An excerpt from the book Instrumentation/Orchestration by Alfred Blatter, published by Schirmer Books, New York, that gives the categories of percussion instruments, symbols used in percussion scores, and the musical ranges of some pitched percussion instruments.
Rationale for Inclusion: Competency B4 states that a teacher of vocal music must interpret vocal and instrumental scores and understand percussion, string, or wind instrument requirements necessary for interpreting and producing music from scores. The excerpt from Instrumentation/Orchestration explains the four categories of the percussion family, pictograms that represent definite-pitched percussion instruments (as well as their names in other languages), and the musical ranges of some pitched percussion instruments. These topics provide the reader with a greater understanding of percussion instruments.
