Sentence examples for tympani from inspiring English sources

From the 1950s he led his own bands, the variously constituted Arkestras, which played his own music: an expanded hard bop that included tympani, electric piano, and flute instruments then rare in jazz.

These waves move around the tip of the cochlea through the helicotrema into the scala tympani and dissipate as they hit the round window.

Thus, it is partly innervated by the mandibular division of the fifth cranial nerve (as is the case with other jaw muscles and the tensor tympani, one of the muscles of the ear) and partly by the seventh cranial nerve, the facial nerve (which also supplies an ear muscle associated with the stapes, an ear bone derived from the hyoid arch).

Because the round window membrane is more freely mobile than the stapes footplate, the vibrations set up in the perilymph of the scala vestibuli are not canceled out by those in the scala tympani, and the resultant movements of the basilar membrane can stimulate the organ of Corti.

Timpani, ( Italian: "drums") also spelled tympani, orchestral kettledrums.

One, the tensor tympani, is attached to the handle of the malleus (itself attached to the eardrum membrane) and by its contraction tends to draw the malleus inward, thus increasing drum membrane tension.

"I wrote that in 5/4 which enabled us to put a big tympani beat in it.

Cue tympani.

The futuristic tone is more than enough excuse to come up with song titles like "Exogenesis: Symphony" (that one had Mr. Howard on tympani), to surround the band in images of DNA helixes and high-tech fantasies and to ignore the paradox that Muse ardently denounces mass media by deploying a gargantuan mass-persuasion arsenal.

Both Kelly's title-track and Diane Warren's "I Didn't Know My Own Strength" cannily key into Whitney's gospel roots, with David Foster's tympani-studded, big-ballad arrangement for the latter gathering mass as she overcomes her crash: "In my darkest hour, my faith kept me alive".

The score, conducted by Tania Léon, is Martinu's Double Concerto for Two String Orchestras, Piano and Tympani.