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A theme that is repeated and imitated and built upon by other instruments with a time delay, creating a layered effect; see Pachelbel's Canon. cantabile or cantando In a singing style. In instrumental music, a style of playing that imitates the way the human voice might express the music, with a measured tempo and flexible legato. cantilena
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.
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 ...
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Download QR code; Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Help. Pages in category "Compositions for timpani" The following 5 pages are in this category ...
New England Triptych is an orchestral composition by American composer William Schuman, based on works of William Billings. [1] The work lasts about 16 minutes, and is written for an orchestra comprising three flutes (3rd doubling piccolo), two oboes, English horn, E-flat clarinet, two clarinets, bass clarinet, two bassoons, four horns, three trumpets, three trombones, tuba, timpani ...
Concerto for 6 timpani and orchestra; Concerto in D major for viola and orchestra; The solo viola part is written in the key of C major requiring a scordatura tuning a whole step higher. [2] Gran Sinfonia in C major; Harmonia – for 21 wind instruments (1790) Partita in C major for timpani and chamber orchestra; Partita in F major
Some music historians conclude that Schumann's cousin-in-law Ernst Pfundt, the main timpanist in Leipzig and a prominent figure in timpani development, suggested the use of three machines. Regardless, Schumann understood the harmonic possibilities of three drums and realized that the score would not require as many rests to allow the timpanist ...