timpani in English
Concertos for the timpani or kettledrums, the big boys of the orchestra, are certainly unusual but not entirely neglected.
Use "timpani" in a sentence
1. The combination of timpani and organ greatly enhances spacious, majestic music.
2. 17 The Philharmonia plays magnificently - especially the brass and timpani - and the recording is excellent.
3. At Greenwich High School in Connecticut, he arranged music and played the piano, string bass, and timpani.
4. Special effects can be obtained by strokes or rolls on a suspended cymbal, executed with timpani or side-drum sticks.
5. In the Western musical tradition, the most usual shape is a cylinder, although timpani, for example, use bowl-shaped shells.
6. Over the century, other instruments were added to the classical orchestra: flutes (sometimes replacing the oboes), separate parts for bassoons, clarinets, and trumpets and timpani.
7. The orchestra employed was two hundred and fifty strong, including twelve horns, twelve trumpets, six trombones and three pairs of timpani (some made especially large)."
8. DCM concluded his presentation with a humble paean to the moon, accompanied by the soft roll of a timpani to symbolize the march of time.
9. Mahler re-scored the Ninth for quadruple woodwinds, 2 piccolos, 2 Contrabassoons, one E-Flat clarinet, 4 trumpets, 8 horns, 6 trombones, one tuba, and 2 sets of timpani
10. Timpani or as it's sometimes called a kettledrum, and it was playing two different pitches, actually sort of playing this pitch and this pitch, the octave and then the fifth.
11. 15 As both hands move apart, to embrace the piano fff in D minor, an accent on every note, the orchestra announces its return, string quartet and timpani swelling furiously from pto ff.
12. In 1788 Hiller presented a performance of his revision with a choir of 259 and an orchestra of 87 strings, 10 bassoons, 11 oboes, 8 flutes, 8 horns, 4 clarinets, 4 trombones, 7 trumpets, timpani, harpsichord and organ.
13. The Concertino is scored for solo flute, with piano or orchestral accompaniment, with a flute (besides the solo instrument), a piccolo, two oboes, two clarinets, two bassoons, four horns, three trombones, tuba, timpani, harp, and strings
14. Bruckner's Symphonies are all in four movements, starting with a modified sonata form allegro, a slow movement, a scherzo in 3/4 time, and a modified sonata form allegro finale. They are scored for a fairly standard orchestra of woodwinds in pairs, four horns, two or three trumpets, three trombones, tuba, timpani and strings.
15. Composed: 1936 Length: 27 minutes Orchestration: two complete string orchestras divided spatially by the percussion - timpani, bass drum, side drums, cymbals, tam-tam, xylophone, harp, piano two- and four-hands, and Celesta Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta occupies a special place among Bartók's compositions, not only for its fearlessly independent choice of instruments (two string