In this essay I will be talking about when the percussion was started, where it came from, the ancient drums from other places, all the different types of instruments in the percussion section, and why I like the percussion section the best out of all the other parts in band. I will be also talking about some of the first peoples who were professional percussion players and who created what instrument.
Lets get started; first I will be talking about how percussion was created. Percussion was always around since thousands of years ago. Making sounds, rhythms, beats, with sticks or rocks. Some percussion was made around 6000 B.C. And it is known for the first instruments made. Drums were a form of communication, to send signals. African Americans were the first to use the drums to send signals. The first drums made were made out of Animal hide and they used their hands to hit the drum.
Many different cultures have a drum that they use. Some drums they use sticks to hit with, some use their hands. Another type of drum that has been around for a long time is the Taiko drum. The Taiko drum is the drum that the Japanese used. Taiko in Japanese means “Big/Fat drum” even though the taiko drums come in different sizes. And the Japanese sticks they use are called “Bachi”. A variety of other instruments are also used in taiko to fill out the sound. Hand cymbals (called chappa or tebyoushi), Hand held gongs (call atarigane or chanchiki), flutes (fue or shakuhachi), gongs, and various clappers and rattles are all used as well. The combination to these drums makes a wonderful sound. Another cultural drum is the “Pahu or Pa’e”. The Hawaiian drums instrument can be found in Polynesia: Hawaii, Tahiti, Cook Islands, Samoa, and T...
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...Rome, Greece, Mesopotamia, and The Middle East. The word tambourine finds its origins in French tambourin, which is also known as a long narrow drum used in Provence, the word being a diminutive of tambour "drum," altered by influence of Arabic tunbur "drum"from the Middle Persian word tambūr "lute, drum". There are 3 ways you can play the tambourine. The first way is played now and before by hitting it or slapping it with your hand. The second way is using a stick to hit it. And the last way is by hitting it against your leg or just shaking it. Then when you hit the skin around the tambourine. It makes a jingling noise because of the mini cymbals around the circumference. The Tambourine can be used by lots of music. For example: Turkish folk music, Greek folk music, Italian folk music, classical music, Persian music, gospel music, pop music and rock music.
Percussion has evolved from a small category to a wide variety of simple and technical instruments. Percussion is a category of musical instruments that is played using the hands or with a handheld stick/beater. Percussion started thousands of years ago when people played rhythms on random objects to please their friends and scare their enemy’s. People over the years discovered different ways to hit the objects.
Since the first person heard the wind whistle through the trees or the sea in a seashell humans have been drawn to sound. Being the oppressive and ingenious species that we are we felt the need to capture these sounds and any others that we could to keep for our own. Eventually people like Pythagoras and gods such as Apollo found that by stretching materials and picking/plucking them that they would produce sounds and that the tighter you stretched these strings the higher the sound would go. These were the early beginnings of the pianoforte.
The piano is the most commonly known and most used. The saxophone has the ability to produce a unique sound. The clarinet has a reed connected to the mouthpiece, which the player blows through to create music. The trumpet is another a popular instrument. The trombone is descended from the trumpet that’s with played in bass clef or treble clef. With the larger size the double bass, the player usually has to stand up. The drums include the bass drum, snare drum, and cymbals. Last but not least, it’s good to have a vocalist because songs will sound
I have chosen to write this essay on the drum kit, which is an instrument that I play myself. The drum is one of the oldest instruments known to man and has been used by many cultures around the world. Primitive tribal societies used drums to celebrate victory in battle as well as in ritual dance and worship to the deities. The drum kit (also known as the drum set or trap set), however, is an American invention whose rise was seen in the late 19th century. This is an instrument that has taken the work of several percussionists and turned it into something that can be mastered by one; a phenomenal contraption that has only gotten better with time and continues to develop over the years.
Conducting, as we know it today is less than two centuries old.1 On the other hand time beating; a way of holding players and/or singers together, has been around for several centuries. 1 In the absence of written notation, the leader’s hands indicated the direction of the group. As polyphony entered the musical picture, it became essential that the beats be on target. Interpretation at the time was of no importance. It has been indicated through engravings that in addition to hands, leaders of instrumental and vocal forces utilized a foot, a stick, a pendulum, a handkerchief, or maybe even a piece of paper. 1 In the seventeenth century the element of interpretation entered the music scene, enhancing the role of the leader greatly. This freedom of interpretation increased the conductors responsibility, although no universal practices existed. Gradually the method of time beating approached uniformity; as meters became established, so did the conductors movements.1
There are more than fifty different types of percussion instruments, possibly starting with the antique cymbals and maybe ending with the xylophone. There are many different classes of percussion instruments. For example there is Latin percussion instruments, Classic percussion instruments, and Modern percussion instruments. Most percussion instruments are played by shaking, using hands or using a mallet or stick and have stretched membranes. Percussion instruments also have been used to emphasize rhythm and to heighten climaxes.(1) The drums are part of the percussion instruments and is one of the world’s oldest instruments. An instrument, that is the only orchestral drums of definite pitch, is the timpani, which is also called the kettledrums.(4)
Humans from the coast of West Africa arrived to the New World as slaves. Stripped of everything familiar, they brought with them their traditional ways of using music to record historic events, expressions, and to accompany rituals. While toiling in the tobacco fields of Virginia, slaves were not permitted to speak to each other. So, they resorted to their African tradition. They sang!
The combination of the European and African instruments as well as the introduction of new instruments created a unique sound that is Afro-Cuban music. Europeans offered a variety of instruments to Afro-Cuban music such as most wind instruments and some string instruments. ...
Bachata originated from the Dominican Republic in the early 20th century. During dictator Trujillo’s rule, Merengue was the official music to the nation. Because many Dominicans did not accept their African roots, their dances and rhythms were oppressed. Bachata, with its African influences, was considered crude and lower class, only played by campesinos- peasants. It was only popular in the rural parts of the Dominican Republic. However beginning in the early 60s, bachata was steady becoming tolerated, and eventually loved. (Pacini)
Music has shaped the lives of people throughout history. Even in its earliest forms, music has included use of instruments. One of the oldest musical instruments known is a variation of the flute; the original flute is thought to date back nearly 67,000 years ago. Tonight we are going to move throughout the eras with a history of instrumental music. This concert will begin with the Renaissance Era and continue through time until we have reached modern instrumental music.
Music is found in every know culture, past and present. It is also, already being composed for the future. It is widely varied between all times and places. Since scientists believe that the modern humans arrived in the African culture more than 160,000 years ago, around 50,000 years ago, it is believed that the dispersal of music has been being developed between all cultures in the world. Even the most isolated tribal groups are thought to have had a form of music.
In a standard percussion set another instrument feature in the music inside folk music was bones. Handmade musical instruments implied onto a pair of castranets stringed collaborate in one piece. Bones would be played by a musician when only using one hand. Another instrument would be found in a musical band during African slavery was a concertina, a small instrument build very similar to a portable keyboard. Unique musical on each side gives of the instrument it gave off sounds controlled the density of the music pitches. Using the concertina, accompanied along to the music push the sides of the instrument in and out. One of the first well-known music piece would be classified was a piece titled “Jim Crow”. An interesting piece of information was the composer of the song was not a slave or African American. He was a white man although he was known in his musical compositions as a founding “father” in ministerial song writing.
Everyone knows that Music is played an important role in human lives. Music Instruments are also created for people to play and compose songs for them. The Instrument that I want to mention in this paragraph is one of the traditional keyboard Instruments. That is Pipe Organ. This Organ earns a Great reputation as the King of Instruments. The console includes stops, the pedals and there are one to seven manuals or keyboards for a Pipe Organ. This Organ creates sounds by pumping the air through the hundreds of tubes which is controlled by the keyboard. Pipe Organ is inspired by the water Organ in the third century B.C which is invented by the Greek engineer in Egypt. His name is Ktesibios or Tesibius, he is also known as a
Mainly the West Africans used percussive instruments. These drums came in all sizes ranging from ten to twelve inches to ten to twelve feet. Their drums were made out of hollowed out logs and gourds with a tight skin over the hollow. They also used idiophones to make music. They used a variety of bells, castanets, gongs, and sometimes they made small xylophones or small pianos. Aerophones weren't as prevalent as the percussions or idiophones. Some explorers made small flutes, horns and trumpets from elephant tusks.
Dance developed in many different ways and all around the world. Some people would dance for certain reasons. Egyptians farmers would dance to give thanks for a good harvest. Women dancers would dance after almost every meal for entertainment. Men would dance at funerals; they would wear tall head dresses made out of reeds.