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UK
/pəkˈʌʃənˌɪst/
]
[ US /pɝˈkəʃənɪst/ ]
[ US /pɝˈkəʃənɪst/ ]
NOUN
- a musician who plays percussion instruments
How To Use percussionist In A Sentence
- Tour: Rockapella rolls through Korea CONCERT Rockapella: This five-man group, which performs a cappella but with a vocal "percussionist," got its break at home in the U.S. from TV ads for coffee and the theme song to a popular TV show for kids. Time Off
- The percussionists are ranged round the auditorium, the seats within being arranged to face several different ways.
- The viola player seems to act as a commentator, exploring the musical implications of the songs, while a percussionist underpins her, and marks the transitions on tam-tam and marimba.
- Also, in writing for mallet percussion, non percussionist composers tend to compose at a piano keyboard resulting in numerous passages easily playable by ten fingers, yet often unplayable with four mallets.
- The pianist had grand piano, harmonium, honky-tonk piano and celeste, and the percussionist had a range of tuned and untuned percussion.
- This is the first time in the history of the President's Honor Recital that a percussionist has been a featured performer. Undefined
- There were eight percussionists, with an incredible assortment of instruments requiring their attention.
- A cycle of five settings of extracts from The Tempest, it clothes the disarmingly tonal vocal lines in shimmering textures from trios of flutes and cellos, along with three percussionists playing a variety of tuned and untuned wooden and metallic instruments. CBSO/Nelsons – review
- He also has written a piece that 100 percussionists will perform at the opening ceremonies for the summer Olympic Games.
- He's a little fed up with people asking how a drummer can be such a skilled melodist: "I'm approaching melody as a human being, not as a percussionist. The Percussionist as Melodist