{"id":4210,"date":"2022-11-28T09:00:29","date_gmt":"2022-11-28T14:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/parsons\/?p=4210"},"modified":"2023-09-11T15:58:20","modified_gmt":"2023-09-11T19:58:20","slug":"arachnophonia-modern-method-for-tympani","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/parsons\/2022\/11\/arachnophonia-modern-method-for-tympani\/","title":{"rendered":"Arachnophonia: Modern Method for Tympani"},"content":{"rendered":"

Editor\u2019s note:<\/strong> Arachnophonia<\/a> (\u201cArachno\u201d = spider \/ \u201c-phonia\u201d = sound) is a regular feature on our blog where members of the UR community can share their thoughts about resources from the Parsons Music Library<\/a>\u2018s collection.<\/p>\n

All links included in these posts will take you to either the library catalog record for the item in question<\/a> or to additional relevant<\/a> information from<\/a> around the web<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s installment of Arachnophonia<\/a> is by student assistant Eli (class of 2024) and features insert title info here<\/a>. Thanks, Eli!<\/em><\/p>\n

Modern Method for Tympani<\/em> by Saul Goodman<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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While performing my duties as music library student assistant, I discovered a thin workbook titled Modern Method for Tympani<\/a><\/em>. I come across hundreds of books, scores, and instruction manuals in my job, but it was the name of the author of the workbook that caught my attention: Saul Goodman, the namesake of one my favorite TV shows, Better Call Saul<\/a><\/em>. <\/p>\n

Further research showed Saul Goodman<\/a> (the percussionist & author of Modern Method for Tympani<\/a><\/em>) has a fascinating history. Born in Brooklyn in 1907, by the time he was 20, Goodman was the principal timpanist of the New York Philharmonic<\/a>. He played with this premier orchestra for 46 years and taught at Juilliard<\/a>, the premier U.S. music school, for 41 years. <\/p>\n

Goodman<\/a> was instrumental in innovating the timpani, introducing both new techniques and inventions such as replaceable-ball timpani sticks and chain-tuned timpanis. He also remains one of the most renowned and influential percussion teachers in history. To add to his long list of accolades, Goodman played the first performance of a timpani concert to be broadcast on air. When he died in 1996, the New York Times credited him with over 6,000 concerts and a place as the longest-held principal Philharmonic position in history<\/a>. If you would like to try to follow in Saul Goodman\u2019s steps, take a look at Modern Method for Tympani<\/a><\/em>, found at library call number MT660.2. G6, or ask a Music Library student assistant for help.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Editor\u2019s note: Arachnophonia (\u201cArachno\u201d = spider \/ \u201c-phonia\u201d = sound) is a regular feature on our blog where members of the UR community can share their thoughts about resources from the Parsons Music Library\u2018s collection. All links included in these … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2182,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[61217,15223],"tags":[61217,230861,206766,226029,226028,260,231,225790,226024,207046,226032,226030,226031,226027,226033,226025],"class_list":["post-4210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arachnophonia","category-collection","tag-arachnophonia","tag-arachnophonia-22-23","tag-eli","tag-fundamentals","tag-kettledrums","tag-methods","tag-music","tag-music-theory","tag-music-training","tag-percussion","tag-percussionist","tag-repertoire","tag-saul-goodman","tag-timpani","tag-timpanist","tag-tympani"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgMV3E-15U","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/parsons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/parsons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/parsons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/parsons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2182"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/parsons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4210"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/parsons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4216,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/parsons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4210\/revisions\/4216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/parsons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/parsons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/parsons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}