How to Use timpani in a Sentence

timpani

noun

• Even trombones and timpani got carried away here and there.
  — Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 29 Feb. 2020
• The piece started out with soft rolls by Maraca2 on medium gongs placed on the heads of timpani, with pedals altering the pitch.
  — Richard S. Ginell, latimes.com, 26 Jan. 2018
• Lindberg’s Absence calls for the same scoring — strings, timpani and pairs of winds, horns and trumpets — that Beethoven used in most of his symphonies.
  — Tim Diovanni, Dallas News, 6 Nov. 2020
• Willie will be using small percussion and vibes and timpani.
  — Jesse Hamlin, San Francisco Chronicle, 25 Apr. 2018
• Frey joked—the phantom bells ring again, with distant thumps of timpani underneath.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 29 Oct. 2019
• The best moments were in tunnels, when the normally quiet mill plays a timpani solo of bass beats.
  — Elana Scherr, Car and Driver, 5 Aug. 2023
• One of those mentors is Don Williams, a timpani player and veteran of the scoring stage — and younger brother of composer John Williams.
  — Los Angeles Times, 20 July 2022
• At the end, a timpani roll is muted to sound almost gonglike, with Ms. Koh’s violin a coppery tremble above it.
  — New York Times, 1 Jan. 2021
• The percussion is used with extreme economy: the timpani play for seven bars in total, and the gong has a smattering of quiet strokes.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2022
• The concerto began with its timpani stokes played as though an avant-garde onslaught by Xenakis, which is to say cosmic thunder.
  — Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2019
• The pedal-less timpani, smaller than modern drums and struck with wooden mallets, thundered in the hall when played by Maury Baker.
  — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Mar. 2022
• Antonini cued principal David Herbert to let rip the roar of timpani that gives the Haydn symphony its nickname.
  — John Von Rhein, chicagotribune.com, 8 June 2018
• The timpani take command, as drums never had before in any music outside the military.
  — Los Angeles Times, 14 Apr. 2020
• The cargo includes eight cellos, six double basses, and six timpani.
  — New York Times, 1 Oct. 2021
• Subsequent mad fiddling rouses timpani, and then a tart march briefly suggests Shostakovich.
  — Dallas News, 18 Nov. 2022
• Without the bright contributions of so many soloists on timpani, baroque trumpet, traverse flute, and oboe, many sections wouldn’t have been half as potent.
  — Zachary Lewis, cleveland, 17 Dec. 2019
• Woodwinds sang out with mellow warmth, brasses and timpani were boldly profiled.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 9 Aug. 2021
• Berlioz supplies plenty to work with: savage blazes of brass, shrieking winds, booming timpani and bass drums, and bells tolling the dead — but also, in an imaginary ball movement, four harps.
  — Dallas News, 9 Apr. 2022
• He was revered for his skills on the timbales (timpani/kettledrums), as well as for his big band instrumentation and jazz harmonies with Afro-Cuban music.
  — Veronica Villafañe, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2022
• Percussionist Ray Cooper moved from drums to timpani for the song’s climactic ending, the crowd roaring in approval.
  — Jim Ryan, Forbes, 11 Aug. 2022
• The challenges are built into the Ginastera, pitting the harp against an orchestration including trumpets, horns, timpani and tom-toms.
  — Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 25 Sep. 2020
• Then there’s the expressive, gifted and animated Ray Cooper, an off-and-on member of his band since 1971, on congas, timpani, bells and tambourine.
  — Chuck Yarborough, cleveland, 12 Nov. 2019
• In the depths of the first movement, immediately before Tchaikovsky’s most consuming cry of desolation, the bassoons, basses and timpani hold a low F sharp, for just a beat and a half.
  — David Allen, New York Times, 5 Oct. 2022
• Piccolo and timpani contributed to a hard-hitting storm.
  — Zachary Lewis, cleveland.com, 14 May 2018
• For on this occasion, the thundering timpani with which Gershwin opens the piece reveled in swing rhythm, thanks largely to the contributions of trio drummer Jason Marsalis.
  — Howard Reich, chicagotribune.com, 6 Dec. 2019
• The holdup, Brault said, is that the Christmas Oratorio is a large and daunting work that calls not only for chorus and vocalists but also for oboe d’amore and da caccia as well as trumpets and timpani.
  — Zachary Lewis, cleveland, 4 Dec. 2019
• But somehow Dudamel made an introductory stroke of timpani gong sound like a universal call of all peoples from all places.
  — Los Angeles Times, 11 Oct. 2019
• What followed was a tour de force, a Rondo that swung wildly between unbridled zeal and ultimate refinement, all the way down to the last measures, when even the faintest of taps on the timpani made a deep impression.
  — Zachary Lewis, cleveland.com, 2 Mar. 2018
• Struggle, that is, until Primo wins his brother Secondo’s heart with a glorious pair of timpani.
  — Craig Cavallo, Saveur, 31 Aug. 2017
• The musical ensemble will include a string quartet, clarinets, marimba, timpani and glockenspiel.
  — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Apr. 2023

Last Updated: 17 Jul 2024