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Definition of Side drum
1. Noun. A small drum with two heads and a snare stretched across the lower head.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Side Drum
Literary usage of Side drum
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Technique of the Modern Orchestra: A Manual of Practical Instrumentation by Charles Marie Widor (1906)
"... notes not coinciding with the harmony being given to it, as is done in the
case of the Triangle, the side drum, or the Cymbals. ..."
2. Modern Music and Musicians by Louis Charles Elson (1918)
"The side drum consists of a small wooden or brass cylinder with a vellum at ...
The side drum can be muffled by loosening the cords, or by inserting a piece ..."
3. Elson's Music Dictionary: Containing the Definition and Pronunciation of by Louis Charles Elson (1905)
"The side-drum having two heads, the upper one only being played upon by two sticks
of wood ; the lower head has occasionally strings of catgut stretched ..."
4. Elson's Music Dictionary: Containing the Definition and Pronunciation of by Louis Charles Elson (1905)
"The side-drum having two heads, the upper one only being played upon by two sticks
of wood ; the lower head has occasionally strings of catgut stretched ..."
5. Elson's Music Dictionary: Containing the Definition and Pronunciation of by Louis Charles Elson (1905)
"The side-drum having two heads, the upper one only being played upon by two sticks
of wood ¡ the lower head has occasionally strings of catgut stretched ..."
6. University Musical Encyclopedia by Louis Charles Elson (1912)
"The side drum consists of a small wooden or brass cylinder with a vellum at each
... The side drum can be muffled by loosening the cords, or by inserting a ..."
7. What We Hear in Music: A Laboratory Course of Study in Music History and by Anne Faulkner Oberndorfer (1913)
"XYLOPHONE PERCUSSION INSTRUMENTS ORCHESTRA BELLS CHIMES side drum TYMPANI (KETTLE
DRUM) another key while the orchestra is still playing in the original key ..."
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