timpano

plural timpanos

1. uncommonA timbale (food).

   Later in the book, we'll dig deeper into the world of baked pastas like elegant lasagna timpanos and new interpretations like crunchy life-changing deep-fried bricks of lasagna[…]

   2019 September 10, Anna Hezel, The Editors Of Taste, Lasagna: A Baked Pasta Cookbook, Clarkson Potter, →ISBN, page 26

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   One can see why Secundo protests making the timpano. The dish is time consuming and demands an involved preparation. It is reserved for special occasions, for it serves anywhere from ten to sixteen people. […] The food stylist for the film, Deborah Disabatino, said she felt like an architect when constructing a timpano, and […]

   2012 August 6, Anne L. Bower, Reel Food: Essays on Food and Film, Routledge, →ISBN, page 47

plural timpani

1. singularsingular of timpani (“kettledrum”)

   Move only the arms when playing from one timpano to the other.

   1972, Kenneth A. Mueller, Teaching Total Percussion, Parker Publishing Company, Inc., →ISBN, page 71

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   In most cases, when one timpano is used, numerous gliss effects are required (or no special pedaling at all).

   1984, Percussion Anthology: A Compendium of Percussion Articles from the Instrumentalist, Instrumentalist Company, page 511

   As in string writing, the indication is a line between the notes (both of which must be within the range of one timpano, of course).

   1990, Kent Kennan, Donald Grantham, The Technique of Orchestration, Prentice-Hall, Inc., →ISBN, page 232

   Usually two or more timpani are used together, except for a few rare cases in pre-Classical music where only one timpano is required.

   2013, Ertuğrul Sevsay, The Cambridge Guide to Orchestration, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN