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  2. Symphony No. 5 (Martinů) - Wikipedia

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    This involves the alternation of slow and fast sections in all of the movements, and the symphony's most distinctive feature is its enlivenment by rhythmic devices. [ 2 ] Like the Sixth Symphony but unlike all the earlier ones, the first movement of the Fifth Symphony begins with a slow introduction that returns as a postlude at the end ...

  3. Tympany Five - Wikipedia

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    Tympany Five was a successful and influential American rhythm and blues and jazz dance band founded by Louis Jordan in 1938. [1] The group was composed of a horn section of three to five different pieces and also drums, double bass, guitar and piano.

  4. Timpani - Wikipedia

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    Walter Light pedal and chain timpani set up in three different combinations. Timpani come in a variety of sizes from about 33 inches (84 cm) in diameter down to piccoli timpani of 12 inches (30 cm) or less. [6] A 33-inch drum can produce C 2 (the C below the bass clef), and specialty piccoli timpani can play up into the treble clef.

  5. Channel 5 (web series) - Wikipedia

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    Channel 5 (also known as "Channel 5 with Andrew Callaghan" on YouTube) is an American digital media company and web channel, billed as a "digital journalism experience." [ 2 ] The show is a spinoff of the group's previous project, All Gas No Brakes , which was itself based on the book of the same name.

  6. Andante festivo - Wikipedia

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    The version for strings and timpani was first performed in a broadcast on 1 January 1939 by the Radio Orchestra conducted by the composer, as the only recorded example of the composer interpreting one of his own works. [3] He maintained a slow tempo professionally, with "unforced rubato", [3] creating a solemn

  7. Symphony No. 5 (Shostakovich) - Wikipedia

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    The Symphony No. 5 in D minor, Op. 47, by Dmitri Shostakovich is a work for orchestra composed between April and July 1937. Its first performance was on November 21, 1937, in Leningrad by the Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra under Yevgeny Mravinsky .

  8. Evolution of timpani in the 18th and 19th centuries - Wikipedia

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    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.

  9. Suite of Symphonies for brass, strings and timpani No. 1

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    The Suite of Symphonies for brass, strings & timpani No. 1 (Suite De Symphonies, Première Suite de Symphonies) is a composition by Jean-Joseph Mouret. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The first movement of this piece, the rondeau , is widely known and commonly used in weddings, and notably on the PBS program Masterpiece . [ 3 ]