Cymbal Essays

  • Percussion Essay

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    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

  • The Influence of Vision, Understanding, Clarity, and Agility

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    Georgia State University’s Robinson College of Business, and James Lemoine, a doctoral candidate at Georgia Institute of Technology, explain what VUCA means to everyday managers in their article Management: What VUCA really means to you. In turn, Cymbal Company CEO, Craigie Zildjian, provides an awesome example of someone who absorbs the difficulties of volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity, like a martial arts practitioner and redirects its energy in a positive direction. The challenges

  • Drums Essay

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    the bass drum. The bass drum creates the low "thud" sound that an individual hears in the music. It is typically used to keep the tempo (the speed of the song) steady and consistent. The third and fourth pieces are the hi-hat and the ride cymbals. These cymbals are used to accent every and any beat within a rhythm. Finally, the fourth, fifth, and sixth important components of the drum kit are the toms. The toms are used to add flare and taste to music. Basically, the toms are put to use for something

  • Tripmaster Monkey

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    Tripmaster Monkey Wittman uses theatre throughout the book 'Tripmaster Monkey'; to get back to his cultural roots and Asian culture. He is trying to find himself through theatre and to open up a new avenue for his people. There are numerous examples of this throughout the book as he is writing his play and incorporating the old (legends and myths) with the new (contemporary times). The first significant reference to legend occurs when Wittman is putting his entire night's worth of writing into the

  • Percussion Essay

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    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. A lot of the orchestral percussion instruments originated in Asia Minor. Sometime during

  • Drum Drums History

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    Many of the ethnic instruments they brought with them were adapted into the drum set: gongs, “Chinese” cymbals, tacked tom toms, Temple Blocks, Woodblocks and Cowbells. Greek immigrants contributed a small musical disc known as the “Greeko” cymbal, and a Turkish immigrant family named Zildjian brought with them an ancient technique for manufacturing high-quality, hand-hammered cymbals that would shortly make them a household name among drummers around the world. This early sit down “contraption”

  • Drum Kit History

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    only gotten better with time and continues to develop over the years. The drum kit does not have a definite inventor but, instead, has many pioneers and innovators in the field. As its name suggests, the drum kit is a collection of various drums and cymbals played by a single drummer using his/her hands and feet. The first recognizable ancestors of the modern drum kit were born in the Vaudeville era. Pecuniary and theatre space considerations demanded that fewer percussionists covered more percussion

  • Analysis of Tchaikovsky's 'Swan Lake'

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    Rothbart makes her look like Odette, but dressed in... ... middle of paper ... ...chestral introduction with an imperfect cadence. A strong rhythmic ¾ allegro passage, with sequences and descending scales is played by the orchestra, with timpani and cymbals. The music modulates, and a short, quiet woodwind passage is then alternated with an orchestral passage with dotted rhythms, creating a `terraced dynamics' effect. Part B begins with a major clarinet melody accompanied by pizzicato strings. A minor

  • Analysis of Tchaikovsky's "Romeo and Juliet"

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    very loud and very fast. The strings and woodwind play the syncopated, rhythmic fight theme. Again, the strings and woodwind play in antiphony, and also imitation. The cymbals crash, representing the clashing of the swords, and the strings play ascending and descending scales. The theme is then repeated by the full orchestra with cymbals and timpani, climaxing with a perfect cadence. The woodwind section then plays a legato melody that gradually uses rallentando and diminuendo. Brass instruments play

  • Analysis of The Sleeping Beauty by Tchaikovsky

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    enchanted forest to awaken Aurora with a kiss. At Princess Aurora and Prince Florimund's wedding, the fairies dance and celebrate with Puss in Boots and Red Riding Hood. Introduction, the lilac fairy The piece opens with an allegro, minor melody with cymbal crashes and timpani rolls.  There is a short pause then a major trill. Harp glissandos then accompany a legato oboe melody, which is repeated with a pizzicato string bass. The melody is then repeated by the whole orchestra. There is a crescendo with

  • Piezoelectric Ceramic Essay

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    In a piezoelectric cantilever, the poled directions of the piezoelectric layers are usually perpendicular to the planar direction of the piezoelectric layers because it is the most convenient way to polarize piezoelectric sheets when they are fabricated. Piezoelectric cantilevers operating in the above manner are said to be operating in the “31 mode,” where “3” denotes the polarization direction of the piezoelectric layer and “1” denotes the direction of the stress, which is primarily material, d31

  • Analysis Of The Film 'The Man Who Knew Too Much'

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    In the film Hitchcock showed an American family’s unexpected encounter with the darkest side of European power struggles and a horrid personal misfortune that ensues. In the narrative space of the film we find the tongue-tied exasperations of Ben McKenna, Jo Conway’s frustrations both as a mother who lost her child and a Broadway performer who has lost her career and the kidnapped child Hank’s wide-eyed astonishment at the nefarious spectacles opening around him-all this brilliantly formalizes Hitchcock’s

  • Snare Drum

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    questions like, “How can I learn to play like a professional?” The answer to playing like a professional is years and years of practice. Or also, “What equipment do I need?” For starters I recommend a simple setup consisting of a snare drum, a bass drum, cymbals, and toms. The snare is the center of a five-piece drum kit. In other words it’s the main part of the drum-set. The snare drum is responsible for the loud crack, usually on upbeats, that you hear during songs. The snare’s sound comes from its shell

  • Taylor Swift Poetic Devices

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    playing different types of instruments. Throughout the music video it showed how teenagers are getting bullied outside and during school. The instruments that are being playing throughout the song are two banjo players, violin, hand clappers, drums and cymbals. Taylor Swift wrote the song Mean and Nathan Chapman produced the song. The song Mean was in her third album Speak Now that was released in 2010 by Big Machine. Taylor Swift style of music has turned over to pop with her new album coming out in October;

  • Drum History

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    that one player could play two or more drums at the same time, people started placing groups of drums together for one musician to play. These groups were comprised of an assimilation of drums of different cultures and from all around the globe. Cymbals and tom tom drums were brought in from China and the size was adjusted to allow for ease of play when played with drumsticks. In the early 1930's, musicians slowly discovered with the proper drum placement and a lot of practice, one musician could

  • Music in Tibet

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    woodwind, brass, and percussion, though some, particularly percussion and woodwind, are more prominent than the others. Percussion instruments are by far the most dominant of the four major instrument families. There are many different types of cymbals and drums, which are ... ... middle of paper ... ...75 Lhalungpa, Lobsang P. “Tibetan Music: Secular and Sacred.” Asian Music 1 (2): 2-10. Mayhew, Bradley, John Vincent Bellezza, Tony Wheeler, and Chris Taylor. Tibet. Melbourne: Lonely

  • Lion Dancing

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    Lion Dancing When you’re in Chinatown on Chinese New Year, you can hear the firecrackers popping followed by the loud music of banging drums and cymbals clashing in beat with each other. Then as the smoke clears, a huge beast emerges from the smoke. Kids hide behind their parents as the beast shakes its head from side to side and begins to dance around. It is a frightening beast, but it scares the evil spirits and brings good luck to all the stores around Chinatown. As some people know from

  • Classical Dance Essay

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    form. The dresses wear by the dancers here are made up of silk or pat which is produced in Assam only. And ornaments are also based on traditional designs of Asssam. INSTRUMENTS USE IN SATTRIYA This instruments used in this dance form are Violin,cymbals and Khol.

  • Percussion Essay

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    likely human hands and feet used to clap or stomp a rhythm. Eventually cultures discovered that they could create louder, more varied sounds with crafted surfaces and implements. In the 18th and 19th centuries, more percussion instruments [like cymbals and triangles] came to being. It is impossible to say where the first percussion instrument was made, t... ... middle of paper ... ...e history of percussion is a very fascinating field of study; it is also important to those in the music industry

  • History of Percussion Instruments

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    instruments are tunable in many different ways and forms; therefore, these instruments can be used as melodic instruments (“ Percussion” 653). Basic idiophones (also refereed to as concussion instruments) are struck together. This includes clappers, cymbals, stones, and castanets. Percussive idiophones are hit by nonsonorous strikers. These types of instruments include gongs, triangles, and xylophones. Shaken idiophones were usually cups or shells that contained rattles or pellets, the shaking