The French Army Cavalry and Armored Branch maintain mounted and dismounted fanfare bands featuring cavalry trumpets and bugles plus kettledrums and marching percussion.
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Kettledrums in Europe today are called " tympani " or " timpani ", descended from the imported naqareh.
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No subtle colors of celesta here, no haunting violin tunes, just energy with anger behind it in blasts of brass and kettledrums.
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Perhaps understandably, the video director was fascinated by the dozen or so kettledrums strewn from one side of the stage to the other.
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It is an odd but instructive sight to see him turn from his machines, and strike a note from the tuned kettledrum nearby.
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"Dance of the City " was performed to a wailing siren, and kettledrums boomed through " Revolutionary March ."
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"No written kettledrum music survives from the 16th century, because the technique and repertory were learned by oral tradition and were kept secret.
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An early example of trumpet and kettledrum music occurs at the beginning of Monteverdi s opera " Orfeo " ( 1607 ) ."
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The number of musicians who augmented the Royal Band on that occasion is unspecified, but particular mention of the Artillery kettledrums is well documented.
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Brown Duchess's connections declined to take part in a deciding run-off, enabling Kettledrum to walk over for the prize money.
