Triangle



[Eng.]

A three-sided (triangular shaped) percussion instrument made of a bent metal bar which is sounded by being struck with a steel tangent and produced a high sound of indeterminable pitch.

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SUGGESTED LISTENING EXAMPLES:

Shostakovich: Ballet Suite No. 1, "Music Box Waltz"
W. W. Norton - 4-CD Musical Example Bank -- Disc 2, Track 20
Holst: The Planets, Op. 32, "Jupiter, The Bringer of Jollity"
W. W. Norton - 4-CD Musical Example Bank -- Disc 1, Track 50
Rimsky-Korsakov: Capriccio espagnol, Op. 34, "Fandango asturiano" (middle section)
W. W. Norton - 4-CD Musical Example Bank -- Disc 2, Track 23
Strauss: Don Juan, Op. 20
W. W. Norton - 4-CD Musical Example Bank -- Disc 1, Track 3

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