Sentence examples for traditional percussion from inspiring English sources

The choreography was simple and repetitive, like the spare, rhythmic loop of the traditional percussion instruments accompanying it.

At the Lebeha Drumming Center on the north side of town, one can hear or take lessons in traditional percussion.

The ensemble, which also uses a variety of traditional percussion instruments and some made from PVC pipe, owes a debt to both the Blue Man Group and the musical "Stomp".

Along with the standard orchestra instruments, Revueltas called for an array of orchestral and traditional percussion instruments, including the timpani, piano, xylophone, claves, maracas, bass drum, tom-toms, cymbals, gong, glockenspiel, celesta, gourd, and raspador.

Li clearly enjoys messing with the conventions of pop music; loudspeakers are employed, handclaps are scattered over traditional percussion, and there's even a saxophone solo nestled in the folds of I'm Good, I'm Gone.

Behind them were flashy video screens, yet at the center of the stage were merengue's traditional percussion instruments, the two-headed drum called a tambora, and the guiro, or scraper.

STONY BROOK Charles B. Wang Center Te Vaka, rock aesthetic with traditional Polynesian percussion and the singer Kauamakaiwa Kanaka'ole.

Javier de Frutos's Sour Milk was something else: a completely over-the-top ritual for Pedro Machado and three women to traditional Chinese percussion.

Eddie Palmieri's music is brilliantly volatile, leaping from fierce dance vamps to splashy, experimental modal jazz to deep traditional rumba percussion.

Mr. Palmieri's music is brilliantly volatile, leaping from fierce dance vamps to splashy, experimental modal jazz to deep traditional rumba percussion.

He grew up in an intellectual middle-class household — his father was a mathematics professor, his mother a grade-school teacher — and he played in traditional Beninese percussion groups from an early age.