The Tambourine
For the few of you who are wondering what a tambourine is, it is one of the simplest musical instruments ever made. It is part of the percussion family, is usually handheld, and can be played in virtually any genre of music because of how plain and universal the sound is. The metal disks are called “jingles” and are around the outside rim of the circle of wood. Throughout its history, the tambourine has barely been altered in its looks because of how simplistic and easy it is already to use.
The tambourine was first used in Greece and Rome during the 13th century in religious and folk songs. Since the late 1700’s, it has traveled around the world and landed in Europe, where Mozart began to include it into his compositions. Once the tambourine was heard in classical songs, many artists began adding it to their own work, snowballing the sound into nearly every song you heard until recently. Now, new technologies have enabled us to use fake sounds produced by computers, so most instruments are not needed in creating a song anymore.
The percussion consists of some of my favorite instruments because each piece of it has such a unique sound. Also, they are so important to music because they keep the time and add the structure to the song. The tambourine is awesome because even though it is so simple, it adds so much to a song and can have very complicated rhythms that add something special to each melody.
Bibliography
- http://www.vsl.co.at/en/70/3196/3211/3215/5813.vsl
- http://www.promusicaustralia.com/drum/TocaImages/T-H_Series.jpg
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