Bill Pirkle:

>Although, one may find, so called popular music without a continuous drum
>beat, does anyone know of a "classical" piece with a continuous drum beat
>(there may be but I don't know of it)

The most *popular* one:  Ravels Bolero (is this now classical?).  And then
there are quite a few modern (?) works for percussion ensemble (e.g.  Steve
Reichs *Drumming*) or concertos for percussion around (Panufnik, Norgard,
MacMillan ..) that might fit into this category (although these are maybe
not classical they are certainly not very popular).

Achim Breiling