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  2. Missa in tempore belli - Wikipedia

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    Missa in tempore belli (English: Mass in Time of War) is a setting of the mass by Joseph Haydn.It is catalogued Mass No. 10 [1] in C major (Hob. XXII:9). [1] Known also as the Paukenmesse due to the dramatic use of timpani, it is one of the most popular of his fourteen mass settings.

  3. 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.

  4. History of poetry - Wikipedia

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    Lyric poetry is very similar to songs / song lyrics. They could have as many stanzas as they wanted, which was different to different forms of poetry at the time. There were no real regulations to this new form of poetry, which was invented by Sir Robert Cite in 1789. This form of poetry is known for being the quickest growing type of the past ...

  5. Timbales - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  6. Les préludes - Wikipedia

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    Les préludes is the final revision of an overture initially written for a choral cycle Les quatre élémens (The Four Elements, 1844–48), on 4 poems by the French author Joseph Autran: La Terre (The Earth), Les Aquilons (The north Winds), Les Flots (The Waves), Les Astres (The Stars).

  7. Symphony No. 103 (Haydn) - Wikipedia

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    The symphony was the eleventh of twelve that were composed for performance in England during Haydn's two journeys there (1791–1792, 1794–1795), arranged and organized by the great impresario, Johann Peter Salomon.

  8. Romeo and Juliet (Tchaikovsky) - Wikipedia

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    The woodwinds play a sweet homage to the lovers, and a final allusion to the love theme brings in the climax, beginning with a huge crescendo B natural roll of the timpani, and the orchestra plays homophonic shouts of a B major chord before the final bar, with full orchestra belting out a powerful B natural to close the overture. [citation needed]

  9. The Swerve - Wikipedia

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    Greenblatt uses it to describe the history of Lucretius' own book: "The reappearance of his poem was such a swerve, an unforeseen deviation from the direct trajectory—in this case, toward oblivion—on which that poem and its philosophy seemed to be traveling." [7] The recovery of the ancient text is seen as its rebirth, i.e. a "renaissance ...