Books & Literature: Science, Education, History
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Steel Pan Tuning A Handbook for Steel Pan Making and Tuning, by Ulf Kronman The one and only book of its kind Free on the Internet |
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Untersuchungen zur Klangerzeugung und Klangwahrnehmung der karibischen Steeldrum Akustische Untersuchungen der Steeldrum - Bestimmung von Klangeigenschaften - Physikalische Modellierung des Klangs mit Computermethoden - Hörversuche zur Bestimmung klanglicher Qualitätsparameter. Aus der Serie Europäische Hochschulschriften By Michael Steppat |
| Standards & Tuning How are Pans Made? Tuning, General description of tuning, Pan tuners are not only born - they are also mad, Maintenance, Servicing, Standard tuning/blend, Back to pitch, Repairs/re-tune, Tonal character, Standardization of Pan Paper by Paul Francis PDF Download offered by The Panyard Bern |
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| The Acoustical Society of America Digital Library Providing technical articels from journals and magazines, papers and other publications. There is a search bar, try 'steelpan' and 'steel drum' Acoustical Society of America Digital Library |
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| Steel Drums to Steelpans by Derek Gay, Department of Civil Engineering The University of the West Indies PDF download offered by UWI |
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| Proceedings of the International Conference on the Science and Technology of the Steelpan by Anthony Achong |
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| Hiding Pan Facts under Canopies by Terry Joseph free online read |
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| Miking solo instruments by Terry Joseph free online read |
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| Squabbles over standardisation by Terry Joseph free online read |
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| Unite for the common pan by Terry Joseph free online read |
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| Proposal for a Trinidad and Tobago Standard Glossary of terms relating to the steel pan Ad hoc specification committee on steel pan Trinidad and Tobago Bureau of Standards |
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| Medical Problems of Performing Artists Hearing sensitivity among professional panists This study of the members of two Trinidadian steel pan orchestras highlights the need for hearing conservation for these musicians. By Scott K. Griffiths, Arlene Samaroo In order to view full text of this article, you must be a paid subscriber or purchase electronic access. You may also purchase a print copy of this article. Hearing sensitivity among professional panists |
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Classroom Series Designed for the beginning steel band classroom. Student text book, teacher's manual, and instrument packs for everyday classroom rehearsal. By David Knapp & Adam Grisé |
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Beginning Steel Drum The poster that is included with this book shows the exact positions of the notes. By Othello Molineaux |
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Kaiso Koncepts Learn to play Calypso music, study Calypso rhythms and phrasing. By Michael Low Chew Tung |
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The Steel Band Game Plan Strategies for starting, building, and maintaining your pan program. By Chris Tanner |
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So You Want To Start A Steel Pan Band Tips to avoid some of the perils, pitfalls and potholes in the road to your steel band success. By Char Lusk |
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How to Play The Soprano Pan An introduction book with exercises on scales, chords and arpeggios, basic techniques in rolling and sticking. By Jimi Phillip |
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Pan Steel Drums Made Easy Basics for Beginners. By Harry Best |
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Pan Rhythm Rhythmic Training for Pan Players: Whole Body Movement, read and notate rhythm, develop techniques for groove, strumming exercises, improve your weak hand, drumset and percussion patterns for steelband By Phil Hawkins |
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Steelpan Playing with Theory by Salah Wilson and The Steelpan Teacher's Manual by Salah Wilson |
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The Latin Real Book This 580 page book is the first professional-level Latin fakebook ever published. It features the best classic and contemporary Salsa, Latin-Jazz and Brazilian music, and includes detailed arrangements of tunes exactly as performed by Tito Puente, Eddie Palmieri, Milton Nascimento, Cal Tjader, Ruben Blades, Ray Barretto, Andy Narell, Toninho Horta, The Fania All Stars, Cetia Cruz, Irakere, Arsenio Rodrigues, Tom Jobim, Ivan Lins, Mario Bauza, Los Van Van, Djavan and many others. |
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400 Questions and Answers on Pan - 1960 to 2007 The book is broken down by decades, from the 1960's to the 2000's, with statistical analyses. There are two other segments, Who did it first? and Did you know? There is also a condensed history of the Brooklyn Panorama from 1972 to the present. This compilation is a must have for all Panists, Pan Lovers, researchers, and even the schools. The T&T School Library purchased copies for all schools! Compiled by Ian R. Franklin |
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Crossword Puzzles of Trinidad & Tobago The puzzles involve people, places and things regarding Trinidad and Tobago in the sports, Calypso & Calypsonians, Monarchs, Roadmarch Winners, Steel Orchestras, Winning Bands, Arrangers, beauty, history, and other miscellaneous areas. Take your pens, put on your thinking caps, test your knowledge, and enjoy! Published by Ian R. Franklin |
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Teach Yourself to Play the Tenor Pan An introductory guide to the tenor pan (soprano, 4th/5th). Trains the beginner to use hands, eyes and ears to attain competency in playing simle tunes on their own. By Sherman Fyfe |
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Teach Yourself to Play the Double Tenor Pan A pictorial guide to playing the double tenor pan (soprano). The book is divided into three sections that look at the instrument, the major scales and chord construction. Includes a brief history of the steel band movement. By Sherman Fyfe |
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Teach Yourself to Play the Double Second Pan Gives an insight into the Double Second Pan (alto) by tracing its evolution from a single second twenty years ago. The book explores the major scales, chords, strumming and sticking. By Sherman Fyfe |
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Teach Yourself to Play Advanced Pan A complete guide to pan playing for the intermediate and advanced player. Divided into seven sections, incl. the music alphabet, time, major scales, strumming and sticking. Provides guidance for the ensemble/small steel band. By Sherman Fyfe |
Steel Band Tips For New Pan Teachers Music Makers - Canadian Music Educator's Journal Volume 44, #4 (Summer 2003) Steel Pan Column by Joe Cullen PDF download offered by prestomusicproductions.com The Steelpan Handbook by Rachel Hayward |
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The Steel Pan Man of Harlem A mysterious man appears in Harlem and promises to rid the city of its rats by playing the steel pan. Reading Level: Ages 4-8 Number of Pages: 32 |
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Boy Boy and the Magic Drum One day Boy Boy is wandering about at a garbage site in T&T when he stumbles across an old man making music on a discarded oil drum from The Factory, and he marvels at the incredible sounds emanating from this piece of steel! By Machel Montano HD |
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Pan Round A Steel Drum Curriculum for Elementary Schools By Barbara Porter |
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Melodies for the Mini C Pan A compilation of traditional and popular songs for the Mini C Pan. Includes scores and CD Scores by Merle Albino DeCoteau Steelpan played by Dane Gulston |
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Pandemonium Rules! Orff Arrangements of Steelband Music Features authentic steel band pieces scored for Orff instruments. The authors join forces with Pandemonium Steel Band to bring you the sound, the sense and the excitement of pan for your Orff-based music classroom. by Deborah Fischer Teason and Gage Averill |
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Read A Book With Steel Pan by Yoshio Machida |
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Caribbean Carnival (Basic) World Rhythms for Kids. History, geography, culture, music and instruments of Trinidad. Fun facts, activities and play-along CD with two versions (slow/fast). Comes with book, CD and a melody leadsheet for 4 songs. By Phil Hawkins |
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Caribbean Carnival (Steelband Starter Kit) World Rhythms for Kids. History, geography, culture, music and instruments of Trinidad. Fun facts, activities and play-along CD with two versions (slow/fast). Comes with book, CD and full score, piano and percussion parts plus two copies of each pan part for 4 songs. By Phil Hawkins |
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The Adventures of the Magic Steelpan How Grandpa Conks Got His Name. By Leeanna Williams |
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Steel Drumming at the Apollo The Road to Super Top Dog. A photo-essay following the members of the Hamilton Hill Steel Band. Incl. CD, by Trish Marx |
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The Steel Band A review of stelband music in schools, and the history of pan by John Bartholomew |
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The History of the Steel Band Includes the CD 'Live Nice' of the Swiss Steelband Sterling's Angels. By Verna Wilkins and Michael La Rose |
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The Steel Band Stage 3 First Phonics. Enables children to practise phonics whilst learning to read. By Roderick Hunt |
| Elementary School Steelband: A Curriculum and Instructional Plan for Canadian Schools by Francine L. Morin PDF download offered by ERIC |
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Man to Pan A Cycle of Poems to be performed with Drums and Steelpans by John Agard |
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| History, Research | |
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Music from Behind the Bridge Steelband Aesthetics and Politics in Trinidad and Tobago by Shannon Dudley |
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Carnival Music in Trinidad Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture incl. CD by Shannon Dudley |
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The Trinidad and Tobago Steel Pan History and Evolution by Felix I.R. Blake |
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The Steelband Movement The Forging of a National Art in Trinidad and Tobago by Stephen Stuempfle |
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Renegades! The Story of the BP Renegades Steel Orchestra by Dr. Kim Johnson |
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The Gerald Forsyth Story The Lifetime Journey of a Pan Legend in the Steelband Movement. By Michael La Rose and Lionel McCalman |
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The steel drums of Kim Loy Wong An instructional manual to accompany the Folkways Records FI-8367 and FS-3834 and the movie "Music from oil drums", by Pete Seeger |
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Voices from the hills: Despers & Laventille The steelband and its effects on poverty, stigma & violence in a community. By Ancil Anthony Neil |
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Governing Sound The Cultural Politics of Trinidad's Carnival Musics. Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology By J. Guilbault |
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Ring of Steel - Pan Sound & Symbol A history of steel bands in Trinidad and worldwide. By Cy Grant |
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The Emancipation-Jouvay Tradition and the Almost Loss of Pan by Earl Lovelace |
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Pan Needs You - The National Archive of the Pan Searching for Steelband archive, an ongoing project and you can contribute! by Dr. Kim Johnson |
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From the STEELBANDS HISTORIES Database
A collection of papers, essays, publications
Free online read at tobago.org
Lies and Distortions of Pan
by Bukka Rennie
free online read
Orchestras of Steel: Local Phenomenon, National Movement,
International Intrigue
by Scott Smallwood
PDF download offered by music.princeton.edu
Testing the influence of the group for the memorisation of repertoire in Trinidad and Tobago steelbands
by Aurélie Helmlinger
PDF download offered by crem-cnrs.fr
Finding an 'equal' place: How the designation of the steelpan as the national instrument heightened identity relations in Trinidad & Tobago
PhD Dissertation by Daina Lorraine Nathaniel
PDF download offered by the Florida State University
Pan Life
Transformation in Trinidadian-American Steelband Culture
by Scott T. Smallwood, Peabody Conservatory of the Johns Hopkins University
PDF download offered by music.princeton.edu
German: Die Steelpan auf Trinidad
Ein Balanceakt zwischen Touristenattraktion, kulturellem Erbe und zeitgenössischer Musikalität
Vorgelegt von Silvia Koch
PDF Download offeriert von prw-kultur.de
French: Geste Individuel, Mémoire Collective
Le jeu du pan dans les steelbands de Trinidad & Tobago
by Aurélie Helmlinger
PDF Download offered by crem-cnrs.fr
Steelpan, Caribbean Identity and Culturally Relevant Adult Programs
by Jean Walroud
PDF download offered by University of Alberta
Steelband Music in Trinidad and Tobago
The Creation of a People's Music
by William R. Aho, Ph. D.
PDF download offered by adelphia.net
Steelbands in Schools
The Instructor Dependency Model vs. the Teacher Transferency Model
by Lionel McCalman
PDF download
The Economics of Bacchanal
The economic impact of Trinidad and Tobago Carnival
by Dr. Keith Nurse
PDF download offered by UWI
The function of classical music in the development of the steelpan and its music
Evaluation of an interview with pan-pioneer, arranger and tuner Anthony Williams
by Frauke Lühning, University of Amsterdam
If Yuh Iron Good, Yuh Is King
Perspectives on Pan
By Dr. Kim Johnson
Forty years in the steelbands 1939-1979
by George Goddard
Forty Years of Steel
An Annotated Discography of Steel Band and Pan Recordings 1951-1991
by Jeffrey Thomas
Steelband: The Winston "Spree" Simon story
by Anthony Mark Jones
History of the People of Trinidad and Tobago
By Eric Williams
Ray Holman and the Changing Role of the Steelband 1957-72
by Shannon Dudley
Steel Bands of Trinidad and Tobago
Information folder incl. CD
by Simeon L. Sandiford
The steelband "own tune"
Nationalism, Festivity, and Musical Strategies in Trinidad's Panorama competition.
An article from Black Music Research Journal, by Shannon Dudley
Steelband Music Festivals 1952-1989
by Gideon Maxime
History of Steelband Panorama 1963-1990 of Trinidad and Tobago
by Gideon Maxime
From congo drum to steelband
A socio-historical account of the emergence and the evolution of the Trinidad
steel orchestra, by J. D. Elder
Steelbands Move from Lobby to Concert
An article from Performing Arts & Entertainment in Canada, by William Doyle-Marshall
The Steelband
A new dimension in music in the twentieth century, by G. A. Prospect
Vincent de Souza's story of the earliest beginnings of the steelband
by Bernard Lange
A Descriptive Study of a Canadian Elementary Educator's Experience
with the Trinidad Tradition of Steelband
by Francine L. Morin, University of North Dakota
Authentic facts on the origin of the steelband
by Antony E. Rouff
Tagarigua's contribution to the evolution of the steelband phenomenon in Trinidad and Tobago
by Panriga
The advent of the steelband and my life and times with it
by John Slater
Music in the Caribbean
by John Sealey and Krister Malm
Trinidad: Carnaval, Steelbands, Calypso
by Daniel Verba
Steelbands and Reggae
by Paul Farmer