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Although the word timpani has been widely adopted in the English language, some English speakers choose to use the word kettledrums. [6] The German word for timpani is Pauken; the Swedish word is pukor in plural (from the word puka), the French and Spanish is timbales, not to be confused with the latin percussion instrument, which would ...
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.
This list contains Germanic elements of the English language which have a close corresponding Latinate form. The correspondence is semantic—in most cases these words are not cognates, but in some cases they are doublets, i.e., ultimately derived from the same root, generally Proto-Indo-European, as in cow and beef, both ultimately from PIE *gʷōus.
A compact version of the rotary valve flugelhorn is the oval shaped kuhlohorn in B♭. It was developed for the German Protestant trombone choirs. A pair of bass flugelhorns in C, called fiscorns, are played in the Catalan cobla bands that provide music for sardana dancers.
Musicologist Julian Mincham notes that "the sweeping exhilaration of this movement is impossible to describe in words". [13] Bach reused the movement as the opening movement of his Christmas Oratorio, "Jauchzet, frohlocket" (Shout for joy, exult). [12] The voices imitate the sound of timpani and trumpets even with the new text. [5]
The Sparrow Mass (German: Spatzenmesse) is a mass in C major K. 220/196b, Mass No. 9, [1] Missa brevis No. 5, [2] composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in 1775 or 1776 in Salzburg. . The mass is sometimes termed a missa brevis et solemnis, because it is short in a simple structure as a missa brevis, but festively scored like a missa solemnis with brass and timpani in addition to four soloists ...
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.
German for B natural; B in German means B flat Hauptstimme (Ger.) Main voice, chief part (i.e. the contrapuntal line of primary importance, in opposition to Nebenstimme) hemiola (English, from Greek) The imposition of a pattern of rhythm or articulation other than that implied by the time signature; specifically, in triple time (for example in 3