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A thunder machine is a percussion instrument used to imitate the sound of thunder.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Thunder machine )〕 Usually, this is a large sheet of metal that is shaken or a large drum. ==Composers== Notable pieces in which the musical instrument has been used include the following: *Richard Strauss - Eine Alpensinfonie and the opera Die Frau ohne Schatten; *Giuseppe Verdi - Otello; and *Richard Wagner - Der Ring des Nibelungen〔Richard Wagner - Page 404 The thunder machine is used only in Das Rheingold, but Wagner's score does not specifically include it by name. Instead, the score states that, when Donner strikes the hammer in Das Rheingold, ”Ein starker Blitz entfährt der Wolke; ein ...〕 and Parsifal. *Mozart The Magic Flute〔Howard E. Smither A History of the Oratorio: The oratorio in the nineteenth .- 2000 -.. - Page 537 \3The orchestra, with threatening, theatrical effects of brass and thunder (a thunder machine is required), powerfully and dramatically sounds out the Gregorian "Dies irae."〕〔Jessica Waldoff Assistant Professor of Music College of the Holy Cross - Recognition in Mozart's Operas 2006 - Page 45 "... in C minor (complete with thunder machine) is transformed into the music of Sarastro's stately proclamation in E-flat major."〕 *The Grateful Dead〔Rock Scully - Living with the Dead: Twenty Years on the Bus with Garcia ...2001 - Page 33 "The Thunder Machine is huge, like something you'd put in a children's playground. It's also a musical instrument.You can get inside it and bang on the different panels with wooden mallets and hammers. It's like a huge steel drum, so big that ..."〕〔John M. Rocco, Brian Rocco Dead reckonings: the life and times of the Grateful Dead -- 1999 Page 55 "That has Kesey a little nervous, because in just a few weeks the Thunder Machine is going on its first tour.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Thunder machine (instrument)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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