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bodhran

Music; General music

Hand-held frame drum with a single goatskin head; used in Irish traditional music.

metallophone

Music; General music

Percussion instrument consisting of tuned metal bars, usually struck with a mallet.

Percussion instrument consisting of a hemispheric copper shell with a head of plastic or calfskin, held in place by a metal ring and played with soft or hard padded sticks. A pedal mechanism changes ...

duple meter

Music; General music

Basic metrical pattern of two beats to a measure.

recapitulation

Music; General music

Third section of sonata-allegro form, in which the thematic material of the exposition is restated, generally in the tonic. Also restatement.

bongo

Music; General music

A pair of small drums of differing pitches, held between the legs and struck with both hands, of Afro-Cuban origin.

meter

Music; General music

Organization of rhythm in time; the grouping of beats into larger, regular patterns, notated as measures. In simple meters, such as duple, triple, and quadruple, each beat subdivides into two; in ...