(Vocal group, 1957–69) The Tams formed in Atlanta in 1957 and are still touring. They took their name from the tam-o’shanter bonnets they wore on-stage. Their vocal arrangements had a deft, light touch which won them their biggest US hit, 1963’s ‘What Kind Of Fool Do You Think I Am’, although they are best remembered for the 1968 ...
slapstick is flicked abruptly. Debussy often requires a large orchestra and the percussion section in his music may contain timpani, drums both large and small, cymbals, tam tams, glockenspiel and xylophone. Cowell introduced bullroarers (also known as thundersticks) into the score of his Ensemble (1924). His Ostinato (1951) was written entirely for percussion ensemble and his Percussion ...
a visit by a gamelan ensemble to the Paris Exhibition of 1889 generated a wave of interest among western composers for metallic percussion instruments such as antique cymbals, tam tams and gongs. In Spain, a revival of the guitar was underway, started by Francisco Tarréga. In the American Deep South the banjo became popular among African-American workers, ...
Gongs and tam tams are suspended bronze discs played with a beater. In the West, the two names are often confused as the instruments can look similar and both produce a deep, rich sound. However, the tam tam is untuned, and the gong is tuned. Gongs have been used as melodic instruments throughout Southeast Asia, especially in ...
burden, but it was to keep them in well-paid work when pop’s history became as marketable as its present. Styles & Forms | Sixties | Rock Personalities | The Tams | Sixties | Rock ...
as a singer-songwriter. He did it, too, with a vast catalogue of songs that have been covered widely by singers ranging from Bonnie Raitt to Tina Turner. John Tams has also contributed some magnificent songs, while Bill Caddick, Pete Morton and Kieran Halpin have maintained the genre with excellent material. Bands such as The Men They Couldn’t ...
Dick Gaughan on lead vocal and electric guitar) and the Albion offshoot Home Service, gloriously fronted by two of the scene’s most colourful characters and best songwriters, John Tams and Bill Caddick. By the 1980s, the record industry and the media had lost interest, and hard economics prevented many folk rock outfits from surfacing. The one group ...
strokes to a conventional orchestral gong (with double-bass doubling), Britten used staccato notes played with hard sticks on a piccolo timpani. Xylophone, vibraphone, celesta, cymbals, tam tams and a rack of gong chimes all help Britten recreate something of the effect of gamelan. Recreating the Gamelan in Western Music Prominent among composers to be influenced by the ...
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