percussion
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Mr. Sosa made able use of his small instrumental ensemble of string quartet, bass, percussion and keyboard to create mood, texture and propulsion.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
It’s evidence of the eighth-grader who played percussion.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026
The most infectious song on the album is Ms Paper, which takes a detour into Bouyon – a Dominican music characterised by high tempos and frantic percussion.
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
On Wilkins’ program, Valerie Coleman’s dark “Fanfare for Uncommon Times” brought a listener inside brass and percussion.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 16, 2026
Meanwhile the percussion instruments layer on another set of patterns, African style.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
Whereas on tracks like “Dime” and “Flores,” there are distinct orchestral peaks, in which subtle percussions give way to grander, more cathartic releases.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 2, 2025
Jeremiah Green’s buoyant percussions — that frequently lift and propel Modest Mouse songs in unorthodox ways — bounced the sold-out crowd like a tattered basketball on the Showbox’s famously springy floor.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 1, 2023
After the meeting, I just went to a studio and started recording for three weeks, and it’s all these jams, all these percussions and flutes.
From Slate ● Aug. 30, 2021
And I pointed to the drums, and I pointed to the percussions.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 16, 2020
All sounds imply time; because they are the transient effects of certain percussions which temporarily agitate the air, an element that tends to silence.
From The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown
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