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The name is a slight misnomer, in that almost every percussion instrument is played with some type of mallet or stick. With the exception of the marimba, almost every other keyboard instrument has been used widely in an orchestral setting. There are many extremely common and well-known excerpts for most of the mallet instruments.
Piano Grand piano Upright piano Keyboard instrument Hornbostel–Sachs classification 314.122-4-8 (Simple chordophone with keyboard sounded by hammers) Inventor(s) Bartolomeo Cristofori Developed Early 18th century Playing range The Well-Tempered Clavier, first prelude of Book I Played by Kimiko Douglass-Ishizaka Problems playing this file? See media help. A piano is a keyboard instrument that ...
Instruments commonly used as unpitched and/or untuned percussion. 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 ...
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
During the Romantic era the cello became increasingly used as a concerto instrument; though the violin and piano remained the most frequently used. Beethoven contributed to the repertoire of concertos for more than one soloist with a Triple Concerto for piano, violin, cello and orchestra while later in the century, Brahms wrote a Double ...
Oiseaux exotiques ("Exotic birds"), solo piano and orchestra (1955–56) Sept haïkaï ("Seven haikus"), solo piano and orchestra (1962) Couleurs de la cité céleste ("Colours of the Celestial City"), solo piano and ensemble (1963) Un vitrail et des oiseaux ("Stained-glass window and birds"), piano solo, brass, wind and percussion (1986)
A percussion section with pitched percussion (tubular bells, background), auxiliary percussion (crash cymbals, suspended cymbal, snare drum and bass drum) and timpani (foreground) in use. The percussion section is one of the main divisions of the orchestra and the concert band. It includes most percussion instruments and all unpitched instruments.
This category contains percussion instruments that are traditionally used in the symphony orchestra.Although in modern times, composers have written music for the orchestra that includes a wide variety of the world's percussion instruments, this category focuses on those instruments that were used during the common practice period.