The Kettle-drums: A Book for Composers, Conductors and Kettle-drummers |
Contents
HISTORY OF THE KETTLEDRUMS | 1 |
THE ANATOMY OF THE KETTLEDRUM | 21 |
COMPASS OF THE KETTLEDRUMS | 32 |
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Common terms and phrases
Allegro vivace Baguettes Beethoven Berlioz brackets brass cavalry drums century compass composers consists core cross-beat damping cloths Die Walküre disk of hard drum to drum drum-head drummer drumstick ensemble executed finger finishing stroke flat flesh hoop Fortepiano fortissimo handle hard felt harmonic series HORN CORE inches in diameter instruments intonation kettle KETTLE-DRUM HEAD kettle-drum playing kettle-drum stick Kettle-drums with pedal knob laps larger drum machine drums main note malacca method of beating mounted movement Mozart Muted or muffled nacaires nakers nominal occurs octave open beating orchestra ordinary overtones pair of drums pair of kettle-drums paradiddle perfect fifth performance pianissimo pitch Plur produced resonance rhythmic right-hand stick roll set of three shell soft felt sound staccato straining hoop struck Symphony system of tuning tensioning screws thickened areas three drums Timbales Timpani timpanist tone transposing instruments trumpets tympanum Violin Wooden sticks written Ꭱ Ꮮ