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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD GRAN CASSA

Italian: great drum.
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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF GRAN CASSA

gran cassa  [Italian] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF GRAN CASSA

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Gran cassa is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES GRAN CASSA MEAN IN ENGLISH?

gran cassa

Bass drum

1 Bass drum 2 Floor tom 3 Snare drum 4 Hanging toms 5 Hi-hat 6 Crash cymbal 7 Ride cymbal 8 Splash cymbal 9 China cymbal Not shown Sizzle cymbal Swish cymbal Crash/ride cymbal Cowbell Wood block Tambourine Rototom Octoban Temple block Gong Triangle See also Drum hardware Drum stick Traps case Four-on-the-floor, a steady beat maintained by bass drum play within typical rock beat & alone A bass drum is a large drum that produces a note of low definite or indefinite pitch. Bass drums are percussion instruments and vary in size and are used in several musical genres. Three major types of bass drums can be distinguished. ▪ The type usually seen or heard in orchestral, ensemble or concert band music is the orchestral, or concert bass drum. It is the largest drum of the orchestra. ▪ The kick drum, struck with a beater attached to a pedal, usually seen on drum kits. ▪ The pitched bass drum, generally used in marching bands and drum corps. This is tuned to a specific pitch and is usually played in a set of three to six drums.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH GRAN CASSA


Averno
Italian
bocconcini
Italian
eliche
Italian
forint
Hungarian
Gioconda
Italian
Nynorsk
Norwegian
samizdat
Russian
seicento
Italian

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE GRAN CASSA

gran
Gran Canaria
Gran Chaco
Gran Paradiso
gran turismo
Grana Padano
Granada
granadilla
Granados
granaries
granary
Granary bread
grand
Grand Bahama
Grand Banks
Grand Canal
Grand Canary
Grand Canyon
Grand Canyon State
grand chain

WORDS THAT END LIKE GRAN CASSA

Barbarossa
Cabora Bassa
contessa
Eivissa
fossa
harissa
Kassa
Larissa
Lassa
Massa
Nyassa
Odessa
Operation Barbarossa
oquassa
Orissa
ossa
potassa
sessa
Terrassa
vanessa

Synonyms and antonyms of gran cassa in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «gran cassa» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF GRAN CASSA

Find out the translation of gran cassa to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of gran cassa from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «gran cassa» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

大CASSA
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

gran cassa
570 millions of speakers

English

gran cassa
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

ग्रैन Cassa
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

غران كاسا
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

гран Cassa
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

gran cassa
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

গ্রান ক্যানিয়া
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

gran cassa
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Gran Canaria
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Gran Cassa
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

大太鼓
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

할머니 카사
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Gran Canaria
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

gran Cassa
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

கிரான் கேனரியா
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

ग्रॅन केनिया
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Gran Canaria
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

gran cassa
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

gran Cassa
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

Гран Cassa
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

gran Cassa
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

gran cassa
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

Gran Cassa
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

gran cassa
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

gran cassa
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of gran cassa

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «GRAN CASSA»

The term «gran cassa» is used very little and occupies the 152.299 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «GRAN CASSA» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about gran cassa

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «GRAN CASSA»

Discover the use of gran cassa in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to gran cassa and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Computer Music Modeling and Retrieval: Third International ...
... and S. Ystad (Eds.): CMMR 2005, LNCS 3902, pp. 149–163, 2006. © Springer- Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2006 instrument but does not change the instrument's acoustic and technical Gran Cassa and the Adaptive Instrument Feed-Drum.
Richard Kronland-Martinet, Thierry Voinier, Sølvi Ystad, 2006
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Messa Da Requiem for the Anniversary of the Death of ...
In A. the following indications are found in the course of the movement: "Cassa sola"; at 4: "Cassa"; at 45: "Gran cassa" lthe indication is not explicit. but comes from the Dies irae movement: l.ibera me 45- 105 are cued to Dies ira 1-61l; at 90:  ...
David Rosen, Giuseppe Verdi, 1990
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The Hutchinson Concise Dictionary of Music
... children's pieces for piano; songs Escritas en estilo antiguo, and a collection of tonadillas. gran cassa (Italian 'great case, great box') Italian name for the t)bass drum. grand chceur (French 'great choir', 'full organ') a musical direction that the ...
Barrie Jones, 2014
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Performance Practice: A Dictionary-guide for Musicians
In Verdi operas "gran cassa" or simply "cassa" indicated the combining of a bass drum with cymbals, "cassa solo" a bass drum alone. Liszt may have been the first to call for a tremolo on the bass drum, similar in its effect to a tremolo for ...
Roland John Jackson, 2005
5
Encyclopedia of Percussion
Gracidio di anitra (It), duck call. Gragé Haitian gourd scraper similar to a güiro. Grammofono (It), record player. See also usignuolo. Gran cassa (It), bass drum. Gran cassa a una pelle (It), single-headed bass drum, gong drum. Gran tamburo (It) ...
John H. Beck, 2013
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The Percussionist's Dictionary
guiro type gourd scraper gran casna (It.) bass drum gran cassa a una pelle (It..) gong bass drum gran cassa catuba (It.) bass drum gran tamburo (It.) bass drum gran tamburo vecchio (It.) long drum with snares grand tambour (Fr.) long drum ...
Staff, Alfred Publishing
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Luisa Miller
At the top of the title page appears the familiar instruction: "I Maestri Direttori sono pregati / a non aggiunger Gran Cassa in / tutta quest'Opera e sara meglio / anche levarla nella Sinfonia / Sottoscritto G. Verdi." US-Wc1: Washington, DC, ...
Salvadore Cammarano, Jeffrey Kallberg, 1976
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UNIMARC Manual: Bibliographic Format
... castanets castagnette castagnettescastagnetti gong bass drum gong drum castagnolecastañetas gran cassa gran tamburo grancassa grancassa gong castañuelas castanyolesclappern grand tambour grosse caisse cliquettes kastagnetten ...
Alan Hopkinson, 2008
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Dictionary of Music
Cassa rul- lante, tenor drum; gran cassa, cassa grande, bass drum. Cassation: a work in several movements, similar to a SERENADE or DIVERTIMENTO (i.e., suitable for outdoor performance by a small orchestra). The genre is proper to the  ...
Theodore Karp, 1983
10
Instruments À Claviers, Expressivité Et Flexibilité Sonore: ...
Come un grosso maglio a guisa di una palla col manico, di cui i musicisti si servono a percuotere il timpano della gran cassa, farebbe un cattivo effetto sopra un piccolo tamburo, e la bacchetta del tamburo un meschino effetto sulla 1 ...
Thomas Steiner, Fondation Harmoniques, 2004

6 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «GRAN CASSA»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term gran cassa is used in the context of the following news items.
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Stavolta è vero: qualche posto in più
... 2,2 per cento su marzo) basta e avanza al governo per suonare la gran cassa avendo per la prima volta i gufi dell'Istat dalla propria parte. «il manifesto, Jun 15»
2
UW Mixed Chamber Music Concert April 12
... four performers -- two pianists and two percussionists -- who play seven instruments among them: timpani, bass drum (gran cassa), cymbals, ... «University of Wyoming News, Apr 15»
3
Kaki King, John King & ETHEL played Ecstatic Music Fest (pics)
... includes 14 toms, 7 snare drums, 3 vibraphones, 3 gran cassa bass drums, 14 wood blocks, 7 suspended cymbals and 7 hunting calls. «Brooklyn Vegan, Mar 15»
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Arranging: From Less to More – Mastering The Big “Mo”
In other words, start from the midrange and save your piccolos and gran cassa for later. * Progressively Saturated Pitch Spectrum: As it sounds, ... «Film Music, Jan 11»
5
Thanks ASCAP, But Do We Really Need More Concert Composers …
As for concert composers, they are very welcome to come and challenge geeks who only know how to push the “gran cassa”-button. «Film Music, Dec 09»
6
Symphobia: The Essential Toolkit for Composers
Gran Cassa II, an orchestral bass drum previously only available to users of Project SAM's percussion package, True Strike, has also been ... «Film Music, Sep 08»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Gran cassa [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/gran-cassa>. May 2024 ».
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