With few study books existing for the Xylophone Jacques Delécluse ensures that this gap is filled with his excellent Twenty Studies for Xylophone. French percussionist and composer Delécluse studied at the Paris Conservatoire in the mid-1900s winning many prizes. The exercises in Twenty Studies for Xylophone are technically challenging intended for advanced students of the instrument. Aspects addressed include complex rhythms accidentals scales tempo dynamics ornamentation key signatures among other features. For all aspiring Xylophone players Delécluse'sTwenty Studies is essential having been compiled by a master of percussion himself.