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Cymbals are thin metal discs played by being struck together or placed on a stand (suspended) and hit with sticks or beaters. They are made from beaten metal and so are distinct from crotales or antique cymbals, which are tuned cast metal discs. Turkish and Chinese Cymbals Suspended and crash cymbals used in western orchestral music, rock, pop ...

Source: The Illustrated Complete Musical Instruments Handbook, general editor Lucien Jenkins

sound when the 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 ...

Source: Classical Music Encyclopedia, founding editor Stanley Sadie

, and newer wind instruments, such as serpents and basset horns, were also tried out. An influx of Turkish instruments from the Turkish Janissary bands – such as cymbals, bass drums, triangles and Turkish crescents – became increasingly common in European bands. In domestic music, pianos started to replace harpsichords and clavichords, and the mandolin was ...

Source: The Illustrated Complete Musical Instruments Handbook, general editor Lucien Jenkins

The drum kit is a collection of drums and cymbals played in all styles of rock, pop, jazz and blues. It is also widely used in urban music across the world, such as Afrobeat and reggae. Drum-Kit Construction A typical drum kit comprises a bass drum and hi-hat cymbal played with foot pedals, a snare drum, ...

Source: The Illustrated Complete Musical Instruments Handbook, general editor Lucien Jenkins

Drums are widely used in traditional music in the Far East, along with a diverse range of cymbals, gongs, metallophones and untuned wooden idiophones. In much traditional music of this region, the drum is played by the director of the ensemble, who uses specific signals for the other performers. Chinese Drums Most Chinese drums (gu) are ...

Source: The Illustrated Complete Musical Instruments Handbook, general editor Lucien Jenkins

The drum is perhaps the oldest instrument known to man. Drummers have always sought increasingly sophisticated ways of refining their art and gaining access to as broad a palette of sounds as possible and, in many instances, have embraced the electronic revolution as enthusiastically as their keyboard-playing counterparts. Early Electronic Drums Early electronic drum systems included the Electro-Harmonix Space ...

Source: The Illustrated Complete Musical Instruments Handbook, general editor Lucien Jenkins

on piccolo, cor anglais, bass clarinet and contrabassoon. One or two harps and two or more percussionists, playing instruments such as side drum, bass drum, cymbals, triangle and tam tam, are often found in addition to the timpani. Towards the end of the nineteenth century, composers such as Richard Strauss (1864–1949) and Mahler ...

Source: The Illustrated Complete Musical Instruments Handbook, general editor Lucien Jenkins

the sound. In addition to the ‘damper’ effect, which modern pianos preserve (nicknamed the ‘soft pedal’), there were pedals or stops to operate drums, triangles, bells and cymbals, and there were even bassoon, harpsichord and buzzer stops. Later makers abandoned these and concentrated instead on producing fortepianos that possessed two qualities: a wider compass and greater ...

Source: Classical Music Encyclopedia, founding editor Stanley Sadie

Middle East. Tambourine The tambourine (15–25 cm/6–10 in diameter and 5 cm/2 in deep) is a circular wooden hoop with a calfskin or plastic head. Small metal discs like miniature cymbals are mounted singly or in pairs in openings in the hoop, and held in place with pins. The tambourine is commonly used in orchestral and folk music, especially ...

Source: The Illustrated Complete Musical Instruments Handbook, general editor Lucien Jenkins

with sticks and mounted on a stand with a cowbell. • Bongos: two small bucket-shaped wooden drums, joined by a metal bar and played with the thumb and fingers. Cymbals We know that the clashing of ‘loud’ and ‘well-tuned’ cymbals were familiar to the writers of the Psalms, but their origins are unclear: certainly they were first used in ...

Source: The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Music, general editor Paul Du Noyer

Stockhausen (b. 1928) in his piece Gruppen, which asked for tuned log drums, and they are also popular instruments in the classroom. Introduction | Percussion Instruments Instruments | Cymbals | Percussion ...

Source: The Illustrated Complete Musical Instruments Handbook, general editor Lucien Jenkins

Castanets Castanets are a Gypsy folk instrument and are played with great artistry by Spanish flamenco dancers. They may in fact be a local wooden version of the brass finger cymbals brought into Spain by Muslim conquerors from around AD 700. Castanets are a pair of round wooden shells made from ebony or rosewood held together with string. They are held ...

Source: The Illustrated Complete Musical Instruments Handbook, general editor Lucien Jenkins

Percussion instruments are a diverse and interesting family. Every human culture plays them, and they are among the oldest instruments known to man. Percussion instruments are indispensable to practically every genre and style of music. In many cultures, the leader of a musical ensemble plays a percussion instrument to give signals to the other performers, such as when ...

Source: The Illustrated Complete Musical Instruments Handbook, general editor Lucien Jenkins

multiple saxophones and percussion devices surrounded the quartet. The effect was further heightened when drummer Don Moye (b. 1946) joined in September 1969. Moye called his array of drums, cymbals and hand-crafted instruments ‘sun percussion’ and liked to climax percussion movements by igniting magician’s flash-paper between his fingers. During its two years in Europe, the band recorded 11 albums ...

Source: The Definitive Illustrated Encyclopedia of Jazz & Blues, founding editor Howard Mandel

range than Blakey; he was capable of creating a furious drive, but also drum solos with storylines. He was also very creative with his use of silence, using cymbals as gongs and handling the brushes as deftly as the sticks. Sonny Rollins, one of jazz’s most influential and most-loved saxophonists, also played a key role in the ...

Source: The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Music, general editor Paul Du Noyer
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