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Concerto for seven wind instruments, timpani, percussion, and string orchestra (published as Concerto pour sept instruments à vent, timbales, batterie et orchestre à cordes) is a composition by the Swiss composer Frank Martin.
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.
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.
Drums require tuning for a variety of reasons: to sound good together as a kit, to sound pleasing as an individual drum, to achieve the desired amount of ringing and resonance, and to produce the sound that fits the music. Some drums such as timpani and rototoms are tuned to a definite pitch. Drums are tuned by tightening or loosening the ...
Drum kit: New Orleans Unpitched Membranophone Dunun: Mandé Both 211.212.1 Membranophone In ballet style playing, a repeating melody is played on three pitched drums Egg shaker: Unpitched 112.13 Idiophone Ekwe: Nigeria Unpitched [clarification needed] 111.24 Idiophone A type of slit drum: Electronic drum: England Both 53 Electrophone Esterilla ...
Percussion: timpani, snare drum, bass drum, chimes, etc. Keyboard instruments: celesta, organ, piano; String instruments: harp, violins, violas, cellos, basses, frequently abbreviated to 'str', 'strs' or similar. If any soloists or a choir are called for, their parts are usually printed between the percussion/keyboards and the strings in the score.
The marching timpani were made of fiberglass, and were played by a four- or five-man line (similar to a modern-day bass drum line). The timpani were cranked by a handle sticking up on the side of the drum. Sometimes intricate, complex music was made using the possibilities of 4 or 5 players. While one man was cranking/tuning, another was playing.
Richard Strauss's compositions included timpani parts with very difficult rhythmic passages and challenging tuning changes that could only be played using a set of pedal timpani. For example, in the final waltz in Act 3 of his opera Der Rosenkavalier , Strauss wrote for the timpani the way he wrote for the bass , with a long, walking melodic line.