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cymbals
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
cymbals , percussion instruments of ancient Asian...until the 19th cent. In the orchestra, cymbals have leather handles and are clashed by...wooden or felt drumsticks. Small antique cymbals, used in orchestral scores by Debussy...
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Helen Tamiris
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...voluptuousness. Her dancers also used kettle drums, carried instruments, beat their elbows on drums, and played triangles and cymbals. The Negro Spirituals With a penchant for exploring traditional American themes and believing that American dance must use...
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percussion instrument
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...sophisticated musical arts. Sticks clicked against each other are another simple form of percussion. These are related to castanets , cymbals , and the triangle . Among the percussion instruments used in the West are the bell , the celesta , the glockenspiel , the...
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Jewish liturgical music
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...psaltery; and the magrepha, an instrument of powerful sound, used to signal the beginning of the service. Various types of cymbals originally used in the Temple were prohibited after its restoration. Ritual music was at first only cantillation, i.e...
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Tharp, Twyla
Encyclopedia entry from: U*X*L Encyclopedia of World Biography
...California. Then she studied with the Mraz sisters. She also studied violin, piano, drums, Flamenco dancing, castanets, cymbals, and baton twirling with Ted Otis, a former world champion. At age twelve she began studying ballet. She attended Pacific...
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percussion
Book article from: World Encyclopedia
...beater or the hand. They are divided into two groups: ideophones , in which the whole object vibrates when struck (such as cymbals and xylophones ); and membranophones , in which a stretched skin or membrane vibrates a column of air (this group includes...
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orchestra and orchestration
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...brass are French horn , trumpet , trombone , and tuba . The percussion are kettledrums (or timpani), snare and bass drums , cymbals , triangle , and xylophone , to name only a few of the most frequently used. The strings are the most important section of...
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Balinese music
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...fiddle, is Persian-Arabic, the instrument probably originated in S China and is used in the music of the gambuh play. Cymbals, bell rattles, and drums supply the all-important elaborate rhythmic background. The anklung is an archaic, tuned bamboo...
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Pantomimus
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre
...classical history or mythology which was sung in Greek by the chorus accompanied by musicians—usually flutes, pipes, cymbals, and trumpets. The pantomimus wore the costume of the tragic actor—a long cloak and a silken tunic—...
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Information Warfare
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Espionage, Intelligence, and Security
...the armies of the Israelites used psychological tactics in one form or another against their enemies, including banging loud cymbals and shouting as a means of convincing the inhabitants of their numbers and aggressive intentions. Assyrian armies employed...
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