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56 relations: Accent (music), Acme siren, Acoustic membrane, Bell, Bongo drum, Castanets, Classification of percussion instruments, Cowbell, Cymbal, Degree (music), Dhol, Drum, Drum kit, Drum stick, Drumhead, Flamenco, Floor tom, Folk instrument, Fundamental frequency, Goethe-Institut, Golpe (guitar technique), Harmonic, Harmony, Inharmonicity, Irrational number, Lincoln Cathedral, List of percussion instruments, Maraca, Melody, Musical ensemble, Noise in music, Orchestra, Organology, Overtone, Percussion instrument, Percussion notation, Percussion section, Pitch (music), Pitched percussion instrument, Prepared piano, Rattle (percussion instrument), Rhythm, Ride cymbal, Ring of bells, Scale (music), Sensations of Tone, Snare drum, Striking clock, String vibration, Tabla, ..., Timbales, Timpani, Tom-tom drum, Whistle, White noise, World music. Expand index (6 more) »
Accent (music)
In music, an accent is an emphasis, stress, or stronger attack placed on a particular note or set of notes, or chord, either as a result of its context or specifically indicated by an accent mark.
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Acme siren
The Acme siren is a musical instrument used in concert bands for comic effect.
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Acoustic membrane
An acoustic membrane is a thin layer that vibrates and is used in acoustics to produce or transfer sound, such as a drum, microphone, or loudspeaker.
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Bell
A bell is a directly struck idiophone percussion instrument.
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Bongo drum
Bongos (Spanish: bongó) are an Afro-Cuban percussion instrument consisting of a pair of small open bottomed drums of different sizes.
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Castanets
Castanets are a percussion instrument (idiophone), used in Kalo, Moorish, Ottoman, ancient Roman, Italian, Spanish, Sephardic, Swiss, and Portuguese music.
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Classification of percussion instruments
There are several overlapping schemes for the classification of percussion instruments.
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Cowbell
A cow bell or cowbell is a bell worn by freely roaming animals made to scare off any predators.
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Cymbal
A cymbal is a common percussion instrument.
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Degree (music)
In music theory, scale degree refers to the position of a particular note on a scale relative to the tonic, the first and main note of the scale from which each octave is assumed to begin.
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Dhol
Dhol (ढोल, ਢੋਲ, ڈھول, ঢোল, ઢોલ, ढोल, ঢোল) can refer to any one of a number of similar types of double-headed drum widely used, with regional variations, throughout the Indian subcontinent.
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Drum
The drum is a member of the percussion group of musical instruments.
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Drum kit
A drum kit — also called a drum set, trap set, or simply drums — is a collection of drums and other percussion instruments, typically cymbals, which are set up on stands to be played by a single player, with drumsticks held in both hands, and the feet operating pedals that control the hi-hat cymbal and the beater for the bass drum.
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Drum stick
A drumstick is a type of percussion mallet used particularly for playing snare drum, drum kit and some other percussion instruments, and particularly for playing unpitched percussion.
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Drumhead
A drumhead or drum skin is a membrane stretched over one or both of the open ends of a drum.
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Flamenco
Flamenco, in its strictest sense, is a professionalized art-form based on the various folkloric music traditions of Southern Spain in the autonomous communities of Andalusia, Extremadura and Murcia.
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Floor tom
A floor tom or low tom is a double-headed tom-tom drum which usually stands on the floor on three legs.
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Folk instrument
A folk instrument is a musical instrument that developed among common people and usually does not have a known inventor.
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Fundamental frequency
The fundamental frequency, often referred to simply as the fundamental, is defined as the lowest frequency of a periodic waveform.
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Goethe-Institut
The Goethe-Institut (GI, "Goethe Institute") is a non-profit German cultural association operational worldwide with 159 institutes, promoting the study of the German language abroad and encouraging international cultural exchange and relations.
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Golpe (guitar technique)
Golpe is mostly used in Flamenco guitar.
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Harmonic
A harmonic is any member of the harmonic series, a divergent infinite series.
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Harmony
In music, harmony considers the process by which the composition of individual sounds, or superpositions of sounds, is analysed by hearing.
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Inharmonicity
In music, inharmonicity is the degree to which the frequencies of overtones (also known as partials or partial tones) depart from whole multiples of the fundamental frequency (harmonic series).
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Irrational number
In mathematics, the irrational numbers are all the real numbers which are not rational numbers, the latter being the numbers constructed from ratios (or fractions) of integers.
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Lincoln Cathedral
Lincoln Cathedral or the Cathedral Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Lincoln, and sometimes St.
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List of percussion instruments
This is a wide-ranging, inclusive list of percussion instruments.
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Maraca
Maraca, sometimes called rumba shaker, shac-shac, and various other names, is a rattle which appears in many genres of Caribbean and Latin music.
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Melody
A melody (from Greek μελῳδία, melōidía, "singing, chanting"), also tune, voice, or line, is a linear succession of musical tones that the listener perceives as a single entity.
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Musical ensemble
A musical ensemble, also known as a music group or musical group, is a group of people who perform instrumental or vocal music, with the ensemble typically known by a distinct name.
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Noise in music
In music, noise is variously described as unpitched, indeterminate, uncontrolled, loud, unmusical, or unwanted sound.
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Orchestra
An orchestra is a large instrumental ensemble typical of classical music, which mixes instruments from different families, including bowed string instruments such as violin, viola, cello and double bass, as well as brass, woodwinds, and percussion instruments, each grouped in sections.
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Organology
Organology (from Greek: ὄργανον – organon, "instrument" and λόγος – logos, "study") is the science of musical instruments and their classification.
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Overtone
An overtone is any frequency greater than the fundamental frequency of a sound.
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Percussion instrument
A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater (including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles); struck, scraped or rubbed by hand; or struck against another similar instrument.
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Percussion notation
Percussion notation is a type of musical notation indicating notes to be played by percussion instruments.
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Percussion section
The percussion section is one of the main divisions of the orchestra and the concert band.
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Pitch (music)
Pitch is a perceptual property of sounds that allows their ordering on a frequency-related scale, or more commonly, pitch is the quality that makes it possible to judge sounds as "higher" and "lower" in the sense associated with musical melodies.
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Pitched percussion instrument
A pitched percussion instrument is a percussion instrument used to produce musical notes of one or more pitches, as opposed to an unpitched percussion instrument which is used to produce sounds of indefinite pitch.
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Prepared piano
A prepared piano is a piano that has had its sound altered by placing objects (called preparations) on or between the strings.
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Rattle (percussion instrument)
A rattle is a type of percussion instrument which produces a sound when shaken.
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Rhythm
Rhythm (from Greek ῥυθμός, rhythmos, "any regular recurring motion, symmetry") generally means a "movement marked by the regulated succession of strong and weak elements, or of opposite or different conditions".
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Ride cymbal
The ride cymbal is a standard cymbal in most drum kits.
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Ring of bells
A "Ring of bells" is the name bell ringers give to a set of bells hung for English full circle ringing.
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Scale (music)
In music theory, a scale is any set of musical notes ordered by fundamental frequency or pitch.
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Sensations of Tone
On the Sensations of Tone as a Physiological Basis for the Theory of Music (German Die Lehre von den Tonempfindungen als physiologische Grundlage für die Theorie der Musik), commonly referred to as Sensations of Tone, is a foundational work on acoustics and the perception of sound by Hermann von Helmholtz.
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Snare drum
A snare drum or side drum is a percussion instrument that produces a sharp staccato sound when the head is struck with a drum stick, due to the use of a series of stiff wires held under tension against the lower skin.
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Striking clock
A striking clock (also known as chiming clock) is a clock that sounds the hours audibly on a bell or gong.
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String vibration
A vibration in a string is a wave.
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Tabla
The tabla is a membranophone percussion instrument originating from the Indian subcontinent, consisting of a pair of drums, used in traditional, classical, popular and folk music.
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Timbales
Timbales or pailas are shallow single-headed drums with metal casing.
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Timpani
Timpani or kettledrums (also informally called timps) are musical instruments in the percussion family.
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Tom-tom drum
A tom-tom drum is a cylindrical drum with no snares, named from the Anglo-Indian and Sinhala language.
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Whistle
A whistle is an instrument which produces sound from a stream of gas, most commonly air.
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White noise
In signal processing, white noise is a random signal having equal intensity at different frequencies, giving it a constant power spectral density.
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World music
World music (also called global music or international music) is a musical category encompassing many different styles of music from around the globe, which includes many genres including some forms of Western music represented by folk music, as well as selected forms of ethnic music, indigenous music, neotraditional music, and music where more than one cultural tradition, such as ethnic music and Western popular music, intermingle.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unpitched_percussion_instrument
