Five wind and brass players are given an array of percussion — triangles and gongs dangled from several music stands — while the percussion section proper is supplemented with bottles, cans, and other makeshift instruments.
She is particularly fond of sparkling percussion — xylophones, triangles and marimbas have as much to do in her music as the strings — and of bright flute lines, punctuated with overblowing techniques.
Triangle, percussion instrument consisting of a steel rod bent into a triangle with one corner left open.
Even though they are percussion instruments, playing a triangle often involves adjustments to the loudness or softness of the tone.
I played the triangle in the percussion band.
Like drums, pianos, guitars and harps, the triangle is a percussion instrument, and you can use and invest in a number of different kinds of triangles, made from different materials, and in different kinds of beaters.
Music for the triangle is written on the percussion staff, often with triangular shaped notes, but is sometimes written with regular music notes.
Likewise, Peart's percussion became diversified in the form of triangles, glockenspiel, wood blocks, cowbells, timpani, gong, and chimes.
Woodwinds are also supplemented, with everything from piccolo to contrabassoon, and the percussion section includes glockenspiel, bells, tam-tam, and triangle, for a wealth of musical timbres.
Today his art involves physics, mathematics, architecture, dance and even music, created by things like the percussion of balls caroming against a huge wooden triangle.
