timpani

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• Sure, it had a fine array of percussion - timpani, snare drum, bass drum, gong, glockenspiel - but they were just there for effect.
• The martial rhythmic section, pointed up by timpani, was particularly engaging and overall there was an operatic tone to this movement leading to a big climax before the decorated reprise of the first theme.
• That afternoon the congregation would also get to hear a brand new work - the largest Bach had produced in Leipzig so far - a Magnificat for five vocal parts, trumpets, timpani, recorders, oboes, strings and continuo.
• With a mighty descending gesture of massed violins and woodwinds the storm unleashes its fury over rolling timpani, pounding bass drum and fortissimo brass chords. The Splendid Start to a Farewell to Opera
• The consort will be performing excerpts from JS Bach's Christmas Oratorio with organ, trumpets and timpani.
• Orchestras have been told to tame the timpani and cap their crescendos to protect the hearing of musicians and classical music lovers.
• The intense, allegretto parts had my heart pounding -- though that could've been the timpani at work. How do you get to Carnegie Hall? Wait, wait, wait.
• Sure, it had a fine array of percussion - timpani, snare drum, bass drum, gong, glockenspiel - but they were just there for effect.
• It is absolutely hair-raising how Brahms shakes his fist at the heavens and this Olympian, this imperious music would rise over this timpani which is thundering in the background," says Fleisher. Glory, Drama Mark Path of Piano Virtuoso
• I also got to play the timpani, which is these giant round drums. Sand Mountain Reporter: News