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tambourine
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tambourine \Tam`bour*ine"\, n. [F. tambourin; cf. It. tamburino. See Tambour, and cf. Tamborine.] A small drum, especially a shallow drum with only one skin, played on with the hand, and having bells at the sides; a timbrel.
Tambourine \Tam`bour*ine"\, n. A South American wild dove ( Tympanistria tympanistria), mostly white, with black-tiped wings and tail. Its resonant note is said to be ventriloquous.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1782, in the modern sense of "parchment-covered hoop with pieces of metal attached;" earlier "a small drum" (1570s), from French tambourin "long narrow drum used in Provence," diminutive of tambour "drum," altered by influence of Arabic tunbur "lute," from Old French tabour (see tabor).\n
\nThe sense evolutions present some difficulties, and in some 17c. and early 18c. references it is difficult to say what sort of instrument is intended. Earlier names for this type of instrument were tambour de basque (1680s), also timbre and timbrel. Tambour itself is attested in English from late 15c., and Shakespeare has tabourine.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A percussion musical instrument consisting of a small, usually wooden, hoop closed on one side with a drum frame and featuring jingle metal disks on the tread; it is usually held in the hand and shaken rhythmically. 2 A tambourine dove.
WordNet
n. a shallow drum with a single drumhead and with metallic disks in the sides
Wikipedia
The tambourine is a musical instrument in the percussion family consisting of a frame, often of wood or plastic, with pairs of small metal jingles, called " zils". Classically the term tambourine denotes an instrument with a drumhead, though some variants may not have a head at all. Tambourines are often used with regular percussion sets. They can be mounted, but position is largely down to preference.
Tambourines come in many shapes with the most common being circular. It is found in many forms of music: Turkish folk music, Greek folk music, Italian folk music, classical music, Persian music, gospel music, pop music and rock music.
Tambourine is the second album by alternative country artist Tift Merritt. It was released in 2004 by Lost Highway Records, and earned her a Grammy nomination for Best Country Album.1
"Tambourine" is a hip hop song written by Eve, Swizz Beatz, and Sean Garrett. The song samples "Blow Your Whistle" from The Soul Searchers. It was released in 2007 (see 2007 in music), becoming Eve's first charting single as a lead performer in over four years. In the week of April 19, 2007, the song debuted at number 73 on the Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart, where it continued to gain momentum. The song has also been made available for purchase as a single on iTunes. In the United Kingdom, "Tambourine" debuted at number 38, two weeks before the song's physical release. The song has so far peaked at number 18 there and is her fifth consecutive top twenty solo hit there. The B-side to "Tambourine" is "Dancefloor" featuring Mashonda. The song features uncredited vocals by the song's producer Swizz Beatz (he is not credited as a featured performer). The song was #68 on Rolling Stones list of the 100 Best Songs of 2007, and was also #70 on MTV Asia's list of Top 100 Hits of 2007.
The tambourine is a percussion instrument.
The term may also be referring to:
- Tambourine (song)
- Tamborine (song), from the "Around the World in a Day" album, by Prince
- Tambourine (band)
Tambourine was a short-lived, 1960s revival, Dutch pop band formed in 1987. The Main bandmembers were: Jac Bico ( guitar), Bart van Poppel (bass) and Saskia van Oerle (vocals).
Although they only released two albums they gained moderate success in Europe. Their greatest hit was "High Under The Moon" that got to #21 in the Dutch charts, remaining there for 11 weeks as well as making the Swedish and Belgium Top 40. The Summer Of Love was released as the first single and it reached the 13th position in the Dutch tipparade on September 24, 1988.
Saskia van Oerle was also a background vocalist with the Dutch singer Rob de Nijs. She released a solo album as Van Orly in 2003 called "Somebody Hold Me" of which the single "Calling Out" drew some attention.
They disbanded in 1992.
Usage examples of "tambourine".
He knew several French and English songs, and resolved to try them upon the Japanese, who must be lovers of music, since they were for ever pounding on their cymbals, tam-tams, and tambourines, and could not but appreciate European talent.
This time the performance of the minstrels had been more boisterous than before, with tambourines and drums in lieu of gittern and lute.
I would like to requisition twenty percussive instruments, such as snare drums, kettledrums, tambourines, maracas, marimbas, rattles, and gongs.
They picked up the rattles, tambourines, and maracas and were making a racket that was enough to wake the dead.
Reading him somehow suggests hearing a Bach mass rescored for two fifes, a tambourine in B, a wind machine, two tenor harps, a contrabass oboe, two banjos, eight tubas and the usual clergy and strings.
The shaman was laughing and rummaging through a large box, throwing out tambourines and banjos and other small percussive instruments.
Next came the minstrels, playing merrily on tabor, fife, sacbut, rebec, and tambourine.
Before she can ask, the man steps back to make way for a procession that suddenly divides the crowd: a naked woman, skin painted silver, face masked with a featureless white disc, goes by on a white horse, followed by a gaggle of white-robed acolytes whooping and beating on little drums and tambourines and sticks.
Their banners were torn out of their hands, their tambourines were broken, their voices were drowned, and finally they were driven back into their Mellah and shut up there, and forbidden to look upon the entry of the Sultan even from their roofs.
His eyes rested idly on a little old coloured print of a Bacchante, with flowing green scarf, shaking a tambourine at a naked Cupid, who with a baby bow and arrow in his hands, was gazing up at her.
Juts produced a tambourine and Cora had the uneasy sensation that she had clipped it.
Gypsies come to town camped in the littered squares, furred feathered and earringed, shaking tambourines and stealing things.
Two raps plus the bell rang and the rattle and tambourine played, and Nan found herself feeling very sorry for the poor, silly woman.
They accompanied on guzlas, on castanets, on tambourines, and sang the old airs, doleful and languorous, or excitable and breathiess as the flight of the earliest nomads in the beginnings of the world.
I would like to requisition twenty percussive instruments, such as snare drums, kettledrums, tambourines, maracas, marimbas, rattles, and gongs.