Instruments | Orchestral Percussion | Modern Era | Classical
The percussionists of the twentieth century often found themselves faced by an array of different instruments whose only common theme is that they are all idiophones: they are played by being struck. Some of these are known as ‘tuned percussion’, because the beaten sound is actually tuned to a specific note. Some are known as ‘untuned percussion’, since the pitch is indefinite and could not usefully be written anywhere specific on the stave.
Styles & Forms | Modern Era | Classical
Instruments | Timpani | Modern Era | Classical
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