Old English Instruments of Music Their History And Character
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In his Firework Music (1749) he used three drums, but the French composer Berlioz has surpassed all, for he has used in the famous music of his Requiem Mass eight pairs of drums and ten players thereupon. The two drums usually employed are tuned a fourth or fifth apart by a mechanical device which stretches or loosens the skin-head until the required note is obtained ; the larger drum has a range of notes from F to c, and the smaller a range from B flat to f. Drums can, of course, be tuned to o...ther intervals and to notes of a higher or lower pitch according to their size, while the introduction of a third drum extends their usefulness in the orchestra. An interesting paper on the Kettledrum was read by Mr. Gordon Cleather before the Musical Association in 1909 and is published in their Transact lions. u For the Handel Commemoration of 1783, held in the Great Church at Westminster, two pairs of common Digitized by LjOOQIC 254 OLD ENGLISH INSTRUMENTS OF MUSIC Kettledrums, the pair of Double Drums from the Tower and a pair of Double Bass Drums were used.
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