Today’s word - percussion
Other forms: percussionsPercussion is music involving drums and other instruments such as gongs, bells, cymbals, rattles, and tambourines. The instruments themselves are also called percussion.
How do percussion instruments differ from guitars, horns, and pianos? They are struck to produce loudness, while the other instruments are strummed or blown into, or have keys that are depressed to produce notes. Percussion comes from the Latin word percussionem, which means "a striking, a blow." And those who think percussion evolved with modern jazz and rock and roll will be surprised to learn the word was first used in 1776 to describe musical instruments.
Definitions of percussion
1. noun the act of exploding a percussion cap
type of: detonation the act of detonating an explosive
2. noun tapping a part of the body for diagnostic purposes
Synonyms: pleximetry
type of: auscultation listening to sounds within the body (usually with a stethoscope)
3. noun the act of playing a percussion instrument
types: drumming the act of playing drums
type of: music musical activity (singing or whistling etc.)
4. noun the group of instruments that are played by striking with a hand or object
type of: instrument, musical instrument
any of various devices or contrivances that can be used to produce musical tones or sounds
5. noun the section of a band or orchestra that plays percussion instruments
Synonyms: percussion section, rhythm section
type of: section a division of an orchestra containing all instruments of the same class
Question
The studio also hired the London Symphony Orchestra to rerecord the classical tracks, section by section, to allow players to swap out separate “stems” — woodwind, ________, violins — and replace them with instruments from the remixes. (A) compression
(B) percussion
(C) condensation
(D) inscription
Right Answer :- (B) percussion
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