Search results

• Percussion History
  ...he primitive societies. These instruments would comprise the Early Strata Instruments of the Paleolithic Era of the Stone Age. ...placing a platform over it. The most important contribution to percussion instruments of the Stone Age however, was the invention of the membranophone: the drum.
  138 KB (22,737 words) - 00:01, 10 May 2019
• Actor, Lee
  ...ightly written. It has a style that is completely original … an incredible orchestral tour de force as written by an immensely talented composer.” The CD inclu ...he Year” classical CD by Classical 94.5/WNED in Buffalo, NY. A third CD of orchestral music, featuring Concerto for Alto Saxophone and Orchestra and Dance Rhapso
  7 KB (1,074 words) - 19:57, 6 June 2023
• Orchestral Percussion
  ...able to play, there are particular instruments that are frequently used in orchestral repertoire. This includes [[timpani]], [[snare drum]], [[bass drum]], [[xyl
  723 bytes (98 words) - 02:09, 22 July 2022
• A table of noises
  ...he will play the xylophone and finally the glockenspiel, but all the other instruments will be laid out on a table in front of the soloist; hence the title. The p 'ghost one' is a brief orchestral interlude (the soloist remains silent throughout all the ghost interludes),
  13 KB (2,164 words) - 04:25, 10 February 2019
• Peck, Russell
  ...ta, Milwaukee, etc., Britain's London Symphony and Royal Philharmonic, and orchestral performances at Lincoln Center and Kennedy Center, and in Berlin, Warsaw, B ...nds). His Peace Overture was among the first serious contemporary American orchestral works played in the People's Republic of China (Shanghai Symphony).
  4 KB (523 words) - 16:16, 16 January 2019
• Modern School for Snare Drum
  ...s and giving playing examples. The back cover provides the name of several instruments in four different languages, stating that showing performance terms would b ...ided in their formatting since they contain issues percussions run into in orchestral settings.
  5 KB (846 words) - 13:39, 17 December 2022
• Conjurer: Concerto for Percussionist and String Orchestra
  ...chestral writing, the very thing that makes it the perfect accent to other orchestral sonorities makes it unsatisfactory when it takes the spotlight in a concert ...ercussion arsenal. Only the visual element of one person playing all these instruments ties them together.
  8 KB (1,235 words) - 23:48, 17 January 2022
• Woodblock
  The orchestral wood block of the West is generally made from [[teak]] or another hardwood. ...tive names sometimes used in ragtime and jazz are clog box and tap box. In orchestral music scores, wood blocks may be indicated by the French bloc de bois or ta
  3 KB (382 words) - 23:29, 25 July 2022
• Horwood, Michael
  ...Disorder (1988), the electroacoustic work Motility (revised 1986) and the orchestral works Amusement Park Suite (1986), National Park Suite (1991) and Symphony ...emble, and Piano Sonata (Preludes, Elegy and Dances) for Mary Kenedi. Four orchestral works (Amusement Park Suite, National Park Suite, Intravariations and Symph
  7 KB (1,058 words) - 22:48, 24 August 2013
• TCL Grade 1 Orchestral Percussion
  Candidates taking a Orchestral Percussion exam are required to: * are encouraged to play their pieces on the instruments specified, although [[Glockenspiel]] / [[Xylophone]] / [[Vibraphone]] / [[M
  12 KB (1,674 words) - 05:54, 9 August 2023
• Orchestral Repertoire for the Tambourine, Triangle & Castanets
  Series ‏ : ‎ [[Orchestral Repertoire Compilations]] <br/> ...eles Philharmonic. [[Raynor Carroll]]'s collections of standard percussion orchestral repertoire excerpts have become some of the most sought after books for per
  3 KB (359 words) - 02:36, 16 August 2025
• Kos, Bozidar
  ...fully crafted, harmonically sensitive complexity. Working predominantly in orchestral and chamber music genres, Kos composes music that investigates relationship ...nds Australian National Music Critics' Awards , including 'Best Australian Orchestral Work' and 'Best Musical Work Written by a Composer Resident in New South Wa
  5 KB (673 words) - 22:32, 23 June 2013
• Higdon, Jennifer
  ...emporary Classical music. Her works represent a wide range of genres, from orchestral to chamber, to wind ensemble, as well as vocal, choral and opera. Her music ...Chamber Players, a double percussion concerto for the Houston Symphony, an orchestral suite for the Made In America project, and a flute concerto for the Nationa
  6 KB (849 words) - 01:36, 12 June 2025
• Chatman, Stephen
  ...rystal, Skylark, Arsis, and Frederick Harris Music Celebration Series. His orchestral works, commissioned by the Vancouver, Toronto, Edmonton, Windsor, and Madis ...oned by the Vancouver Symphony, was one of 11 works short-listed from 1160 orchestral entries from 63 countries in the 2001 BBC Masterprize international competi
  10 KB (1,471 words) - 01:02, 7 October 2018
• Timpani
  ...ccording to tapered and non-tapered shafts).<ref>Blades, James. Percussion Instruments and Their History. Wesport: The Bold Strummer, Ltd., 2005.</ref> === Orchestral Sticks vs. Solo Performance Sticks ===
  12 KB (1,643 words) - 01:01, 28 December 2021
• Spices, Perfumes, Toxins!
  ...combines Middle-Eastern drums, orchestral percussion, and rock drums with orchestral forces – a unique sound both enticing and dangerous. ...involved working closely with PercaDu on my ideas and testing them on the instruments long before the piece was done. In hindsight, I believe that the most impor
  11 KB (1,701 words) - 00:53, 23 January 2014
• Complementary Percussion: A Workbook for Developing Tambourine, Triangle, Cymbals and Bass Drum Performance
  ...[[Keith Aleo]]'s Complementary Percussion is a method book focusing on the instruments that concert percussionists tend to ignore: [[tambourine]], [[triangle]], [ [[Keith Aleo]] has written a series of exercises, etudes, and duets for these instruments to help students understand and overcome the technical problems inherent in
  4 KB (556 words) - 02:35, 16 August 2025
• Cymbal
  Other Terms used for a pair of Orchestral Style Crash Cymbals:<br> ...e forms of suspended cymbals are used on the [[drum set]] as well as in an orchestral setting.
  7 KB (1,180 words) - 04:51, 31 July 2025
• Snare Drum
  === Orchestral Snare Drum === [[Category:Percussion Instruments]]
  3 KB (358 words) - 20:11, 8 April 2018
• Malletech
  ...ave built Malletech into being the premier provider of keyboard percussion instruments, mallets, and accessories in the world. We are extremely proud to boast ele === Instruments ===
  4 KB (434 words) - 06:32, 3 June 2025

View (previous 20 | next 20) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500)