How To Use Kettledrum In A Sentence
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Andrew Wilson’s naig that he was riding on had been a dragooner lang syne, and the sairer Kettledrummle spurred to win awa, the readier the dour beast ran to the dragoons when he saw them draw up. —
Old Mortality
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She dashed off her description of the Convent kettledrum, and added the paragraphs we know of, each one accentuated by an explosion of asterisks, and gave the blotty sheets to Young Evans, who combined in his sole person the offices of sub-editor, engineer, chief-compositor, feeder, and devil.
The Dop Doctor
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The sound is excellent for its age and the particular timbre of oboes, clarinets and bassoons accompanied by the battery of kettledrums has to be heard to be believed!
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The sound is excellent for its age and the particular timbre of oboes, clarinets and bassoons accompanied by the battery of kettledrums has to be heard to be believed!
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Whoever that is on the kettledrums in the finale does a hell of a job!
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The rain's playing muffled kettledrums on our roof, shimmering like sheets of cellophane outside.
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Of course the play upon this meaning of the word and the instrument called a kettledrum is intentional, the word "drum" meaning a crowded "evening party," "drum," applying to the close packing, as, a drum of figs. Answer also received from A BUSY BEE.
Little Folks A Magazine for the Young (Date of issue unknown)
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I also enjoy Harnoncourt's unleashing the kettledrums at the climaxes.
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Drums were not used by the Roman army but European soldiers were reintroduced to them in the Crusades, when the presence of kettledrums and other percussion instruments was noted in the Saracen battle line.
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Eleven-year-old gamelan aficionado Morrison solemnly tapped out the steady beat on the kempli, a large kettledrum on which all the musicians in Balinese gamelan depend to keep time, especially when the rhythms get tricky.
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In my head, the words beat like a kettledrum: Let it be a challenge to you, Deni!
Kee Yah!!
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A typical cumbia is performed with a male singer (usually a high baritone or tenor) backed by a male chorus, drums (primarily kettledrum and bass drum), electric guitar and bass, and either a brass section or an accordion.
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And men beat on basins, tin pans, bass drums, and kettledrums.
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Concertos for the timpani or kettledrums, the big boys of the orchestra, are certainly unusual but not entirely neglected.
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The only common membranophones with definite pitch are kettledrums (timpani).
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Then he took out the copper kettledrum and beat it with the broidered strap, whereupon up came the dromedaries.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Music swelled from the horn section, then flitted through the flutes, oboes, and clarinets, dropping down to the bass section, building from the rumbling of the kettledrum only to subside again.
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The origins of tabla repertoire and technique may be found in all three and in physical structure there are also elements of all three: the smaller pakhawaj head for the dayan, the naqqara kettledrum for the bayan, and the flexible use of the bass of the dholak.
Archive 2009-10-01
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The sound is excellent for its age and the particular timbre of oboes, clarinets and bassoons accompanied by the battery of kettledrums has to be heard to be believed!
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A typical cumbia is performed with a male singer (usually a high baritone or tenor) backed by a male chorus, drums (primarily kettledrum and bass drum), electric guitar and bass, and either a brass section or an accordion.
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The sea rocked like an earthquake, vomiting against the sandy shore, pounding in a kettledrum commotion.
WICKED: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THE WICKED WITCH OF THE WEST
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But hardly had we sat down ere we heard the tom-toming of the kettledrum and tantara of trumpets and clash of cymbals, and the rattling of war men's lances, and the clamors of assailants and the clanking of bits and the neighing of steeds, while the world was canopied with dense dust and sand clouds raised by the horses 'hoofs.
Tehran Winter
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The rain's playing muffled kettledrums on our roof, shimmering like sheets of cellophane outside.
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(TIM-puh-nee) Italian for kettledrums; the term timpani is often preferred by composers and performers.
Timpani
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Socinians, and Quakers: all of whom Kettledrummle proposed, by one sweeping act, to expel from the land, and thus re-edify in its integrity the beauty of the sanctuary.
Old Mortality
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At least in the imaginary versions for bass tuba or kettledrum I wager to say that he is right.
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Laughs I'm like the kettledrum just before the big splash!
Walt Willey Weighs in on All My Children's New Love Triangle
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Kettledrummle was taen near us -- for Andrew Wilson's naig that he was riding on had been a dragooner lang syne, and the sairer Kettledrummle spurred to win awa, the readier the dour beast ran to the dragoons when he saw them draw up.
Old Mortality, Volume 1.
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Concertos for the timpani or kettledrums, the big boys of the orchestra, are certainly unusual but not entirely neglected.
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'kettledrum' and that one's 'at home' you will be bored to death by hearing their version of it, so you might as well do one thing as the other.
Honor Edgeworth Ottawa's Present Tense
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Those who still admire Ezra Pound's pretentious poetry will presumably enjoy listening to him reciting while thumping on a kettledrum.
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Mozart's ‘last words’ were his attempt to produce the sound of the kettledrums in his Requiem.
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The origins of tabla repertoire and technique may be found in all three and in physical structure there are also elements of all three: the smaller pakhawaj head for the dayan, the naqqara kettledrum for the bayan, and the flexible use of the bass of the dholak.
Archive 2009-10-01
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I passed a couple of colorful beatniks playing on a warm wooden kettledrum and a beat-up guitar.
Steven Denlinger: Bartering My Future
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Lightning sends flickering flashes through the Hall, and the thunder reaches us as a rumble of kettledrums.
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I commented over on your kettledrum site, but I just had to say that I am so glad you are doing these historical blogs.
Nicolas Appert: Father of Canning
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The golden measure of poetry does not yet exist, only the rhythm of the maracas, the exact sound of the kettledrum.
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So, although many a house is opened this winter at the same convenient hour, and with perhaps only the bouillon and tea-kettle and bit of cake or sandwich (for really no one wants more refreshment than this before dinner and after luncheon), the name of these afternoon entertainments has been by mutual consent dropped, and we no longer see the word "kettledrum" or "afternoon tea" on a card, but simply the date and the hour.
Manners and Social Usages
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The origins of tabla repertoire and technique may be found in all three and in physical structure there are also elements of all three: the smaller pakhawaj head for the dayan, the naqqara kettledrum for the bayan, and the flexible use of the bass of the dholak.
Archive 2009-10-01
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The emperor is enthroned under an elaborate canopy crowned by a two-headed eagle, and at the base of the throne are strewn the trophies of battles - banners and weapons, kettledrums, and standards.
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Kumran hearing of this was very angry, for the beating of a kettledrum is a sign of Empire.
The Adventures of Akbar
