Bass drum - Repertoire (selection)
| Hector Berlioz | Requiem (1837) |
| Giuseppe Verdi | Requiem (1874) |
| Béla Bartók | Sonata for two pianos and percussion (1938) The miraculous mandarin (1919) |
| Gustav Mahler | Symphony No. 3 (1902) |
| Jean Sibelius | En saga (1892) |
| Igor Stravinsky | The Soldier’s Tale (different kinds of beater) (1918) Le sacre du Printemps (1913) |
| Carl Orff | Die Bernauerin, Antigonae, Oedipus der Tyrann (1959) Prometheus (2 differently sounding bass drums) |
| Wilhelm Killmayer | La tragedia di Orfeo |
| Edgar Varèse | Ionisation (3 disparately sized bass drums) |
| Ralph Vaughan Williams | Sinfonia antarctica (1949–52) Old Hundredth |
| Benjamin Britten | Peter Grimes (1944/45) |