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Body percussion is used extensively in music education, because of its accessibility—the human body is the original musical instrument and the only instrument that every student possesses. [6] Using the body in this manner gives students a direct experience of musical elements, such as beat , rhythm , and metre and helps a student internalise ...
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A man clapping Clapping hand. A clap is the percussive sound made by striking together two flat surfaces, as in the body parts of humans or animals. Humans clap with the palms of their hands, often quickly and repeatedly to express appreciation or approval (see applause), but also in rhythm as a form of body percussion to match the sounds in music, dance, chants, hand games, and clapping games.
In many cultures, finger snapping is a form of body percussion. Sounds of a fingersnap also are sampled and used in many disparate genres of music, used mostly as percussion; the works of Angelo Badalamenti exhibit this in the soundtracks to, e.g., Twin Peaks, Lost Highway, as does the theme song from the television series The Addams Family.
At JTE, from 1979-1983 he created several original body percussion works with the dancers and musicians including “Tune for KB” and “Hey Rube.” During one rehearsal, Terry had a revelation that he could displace everything he was doing with the drums onto his body. He stood up and started dancing his music. [5]
Instruments commonly part of the percussion section of a band or orchestra. These three groups overlap heavily, but inclusion in any one is sufficient for an instrument to be included in this list. However, when only a specific subtype of the instrument qualifies as a percussion instrument, only that subtype is listed here.
Orchestral percussion section with timpani, unpitched auxiliary percussion and pitched tubular bells Djembé and balafon played by Susu people of Guinea Concussion idiophones (), and struck drums Modern Japanese taiko percussion ensemble Very large drum kit played by Terry Bozzio Mridangam, an Indian percussion instrument, played by T. S. Nandakumar Evelyn Glennie is a percussion soloist
The janggu may have evolved from the yogo (요고; 腰鼓; lit. waist drum), another similar but smaller Korean drum that is still in use today. [2] The yogo is thought to have originated from the idakka, an Indian instrument introduced to Korea from India during Silla (57 BC–935 AD) period.