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2. Antonio Buonomo - Wikipedia

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   Antonio Buonomo conducting one of Europe's first percussion instrument ensembles (Naples Scarlatti Hall 1966) Antonio Buonomo (born in Naples in 1932) is an Italian composer, solo percussionist and music educator.

3. Timpani - Wikipedia

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   Timpani (/ ˈ t ɪ m p ə n i /; [2] Italian pronunciation:) or kettledrums (also informally called timps) [2] are musical instruments in the percussion family.A type of drum categorised as a hemispherical drum, they consist of a membrane called a head stretched over a large bowl traditionally made of copper.

4. Timpani concerto - Wikipedia

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   A timpani concerto is piece of music written for timpani with orchestral or band accompaniment. It is usually in three parts or movements . The first timpani concertos were written in the Baroque and Classical periods of music.

5. Double Concerto for Two String Orchestras, Piano, and Timpani

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   Bohuslav Martinů's Double Concerto for Two String Orchestras, Piano, and Timpani (H. 271) was written in Switzerland in 1938 during deteriorating diplomatic relationships throughout Europe. Commissioned by Paul Sacher for the Basel Chamber Orchestra, it reflects intense impressions, from both the composer's personal life and the political ...

6. Classification of percussion instruments - Wikipedia

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   The means of playing the instrument and skills required to play it, for example the grouping together of mallet percussion instruments, or of hand percussion instruments. This underlies the division of the orchestral percussion section into auxiliary percussion , tuned percussion and timpani , and is the reason percussive keyboard instruments ...

7. Glossary of music terminology - Wikipedia

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   Instruments can have their tone muted with wood, rubber, metal, or plastic devices (for string instruments, mutes are clipped to the bridge; for brass instruments, mutes are inserted in the bell), or parts of the body (guitar; French Horn), or fabric (clarinet; timpani), among other means. In piano music (notably in Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata ...