Publisher Desc.  This is a complete and extensive method for timpani. Each essential skill is covered: basic theory (the building blocks of all music); technique and facts (from sticking, muffling, and rolls to instrument care); intonation (tuning of intervals, scales, glissandos, three and four timpani exercises) and a large selection of standard symphonic timpani repertoire (from the classics of Beethoven, Brahms, Rachmaninoff, Shostakovich, R. Strauss, Tschaikowsky, Wagner, and more).