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Definition of Snare drum
1. Noun. A small drum with two heads and a snare stretched across the lower head.
Definition of Snare drum
1. Noun. A tubular drum with skins stretched over the top and bottom, and having a set of chains that can be applied to the bottom skin to create a rattling sound. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Snare Drum
Literary usage of Snare drum
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. War-time Echoes: Patriotic Poems, Heroic and Pathetic, Humorous and by James Henry Brownlee (1898)
"IT'S yourn, my boys, the yaller horn, ter toot it if you will; But give ter me
the old snare drum ter lead the column still; Aye, bring the war-worn ..."
2. Elson's Music Dictionary: Containing the Definition and Pronunciation of by Louis Charles Elson (1905)
"... and to distinguish it from the bass drum ; the side-drum. Drum, side. The common
drum, the snare-drum. DS The initials of Dal Segno. ..."
3. Elson's Music Dictionary: Containing the Definition and Pronunciation of by Louis Charles Elson (1905)
"The common drum, the snare-drum. DS The initials of Dal Segno. 6 as in tone ; в
as in dove ; 8 as in not; u as in up; ii the French sound of «. ..."
4. Elson's Music Dictionary: Containing the Definition and Pronunciation of by Louis Charles Elson (1905)
"The common drum, the snare-drum. DS The initials of Dal Segno. 5 as in tone ; 6
as in dove ; б as in not ; u as in up; ii the French sound of «. ..."
5. The American History and Encyclopedia of Music by Janet M. Green, Josephine Thrall (1908)
"The snare of a drum, that is, the pieces of gut stretched across the lower head
of the snare drum to muffle its sound. 3. The sound of a bell that is struck ..."
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