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Timpani is an Italian plural, the singular of which is timpano. However, in English the term timpano is only widely in use by practitioners: several are more typically referred to collectively as kettledrums, timpani, temple drums, or timps. They are also often incorrectly termed timpanis. A musician who plays timpani is a timpanist.
By the 17th century, the timpani moved indoors for good and composers began to demand more from timpanists than ever before. The timpani was first introduced to the court orchestras and opera ensembles as well as in larger church works. [7] Due to this move indoors, a much more formalized way of playing and approaching the timpani was developed.
Timbal, tímpano and timpani all derive from the Latin tympănum, from the Greek týmpanon, meaning drum. (The Spanish word for drum, tambor , although similar, actually derives from Arabic tabl ). In Cuba and Latin America, timbales (timpani) were adapted into pailas , which is the name given to various Spanish metallic bowls and pans used as ...
German for B natural; B in German means B flat Hauptstimme (Ger.) Main voice, chief part (i.e. the contrapuntal line of primary importance, in opposition to Nebenstimme) hemiola (English, from Greek) The imposition of a pattern of rhythm or articulation other than that implied by the time signature; specifically, in triple time (for example in 3
This underlies the division of the orchestral percussion section into auxiliary percussion, tuned percussion and timpani, and is the reason percussive keyboard instruments such as the celesta are excluded from the percussion section. Origins, cultural significance or tradition, for example grouping instruments as Latin percussion or as African ...
Percussion: timpani, snare drum, bass drum, chimes, etc. Keyboard instruments: celesta, organ, piano; String instruments: harp, violins, violas, cellos, basses, frequently abbreviated to 'str', 'strs' or similar. If any soloists or a choir are called for, their parts are usually printed between the percussion/keyboards and the strings in the score.
The Sparrow Mass (German: Spatzenmesse) is a mass in C major K. 220/196b, Mass No. 9, [1] Missa brevis No. 5, [2] composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in 1775 or 1776 in Salzburg. . The mass is sometimes termed a missa brevis et solemnis, because it is short in a simple structure as a missa brevis, but festively scored like a missa solemnis with brass and timpani in addition to four soloists ...
Musicologist Julian Mincham notes that "the sweeping exhilaration of this movement is impossible to describe in words". [13] Bach reused the movement as the opening movement of his Christmas Oratorio, "Jauchzet, frohlocket" (Shout for joy, exult). [12] The voices imitate the sound of timpani and trumpets even with the new text. [5]