MUSIC / Printed Music / Percussion

Paper · Semantic Scholar

This paper investigates the shift from traditional animal skins and wood to synthetic alternatives in South Indian percussion instruments. Drawing from practitioner’s insights from Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, and Kerala, the study analyzes how scarcity of traditional materials – due to competing industrial demand, conservation laws, and religious-political tensions- force artisans and performers to experiment with n…

Reference · Wikidata

type of musical instrument that produces a sound by directly hitting it

Encyclopedia · Wikipedia

A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or struck against another similar instrument. Excluding zoomusicological instruments and the human voice, the percussion family is believed to include the oldest musical instruments. In spite of being a very common term to designate…

Image · DPLA

Album cover design by Josef Albers for Provocative Percussion, Volume 2, an album published/released by the Command Records label featuring the music of Enoch Light and the Light Brigade. Printed in black against a white background, at the top of the design: volume 2 / provocative percussion; across bottom: ENOCH LIGHT and THE LIGHT BRIGADE. The center of the design is filled with black circles of varying sizes rand…