Middle Ages and continued to be played through the Baroque period. By the nineteenth century, it had come to be regarded largely as a folk or dance-music instrument. The cimbalom, one of the many varieties of dulcimer, was rediscovered by composers from southeastern Europe as a result of the late nineteenth-century interest in folk culture. Consequently, it ...
for percussion ensemble and his Percussion Concerto (1958–59), though not the first in the genre, is a notable landmark. Styles & Forms | Modern Era | Classical Instruments | Cimbalom | Modern Era | Classical ...
workers, anticipating its adoption into early jazz groups. Nationalism was partly responsible for a surge of interest in folk instruments, such as the balalaika in Russia, the cimbalom in Hungary and the bagpipes in Scotland. 1900–50 By the time of the First World War Romanticism’s hegemony was breaking down, as evidenced by a moving away from traditional ...
to play from offstage. In the twentieth century, further instruments were introduced, especially percussion instruments such as the piano, celeste, glockenspiel, xylophone, vibraphone, cimbalom and tubular bells and occasionally an organ, saxophone, guitar, mandolin, or ondes martenot. Since about 1950, non-western percussion instruments such as marimbas, tuned gongs ...
Zither The zither is part of a group of instruments which are linked by the fact that sets of strings run parallel to their main body, and that – unlike the lute, lyre or harp – they can still be played even without a resonating device. In the concept’s least advanced state, native instruments exist which are little ...
Most others have all steel strings. India’s santoor as only been accepted as a classical instrument in the past half-century as a result of the work of virtuoso Shivkumar Sharma. Cimbalom A cimbalom, tambal, cymbaly, tsimbl or cimbal is a key instrument in the musics of many eastern and central European countries. A big table-legged cimbalom with pedals ...
a new, Hungarian guise. In 1861, he produced his greatest success, Bánk bán, making its content much more typically Hungarian and underlining this by using the cimbalom, the Hungarian box zither. This was the first opera in which this instrument was used and the work achieved considerable success. Erkel’s later operas never reached this peak, ...
(Fer’-enk Er’-kel) 1810–93 Hungarian composer and conductor A pioneer of Hungarian national opera, Erkel was conductor at the National Theatre in Pest from 1838 and later of the Budapest Philharmonic concerts. His early works in the style hongroise predate even Liszt’s Hungarian works, and he forged a national operatic style in such works as Hunyádi László (1844), with its Hungarian ...
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