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The gong or tamtam is used only in compositions of a mournful character or in dramatic scenes of the utmost horror. Its powerful, vibrating sound combined with heavy chords of the bass (trumpets and trombones)
has a truly awful effect. No less frightening are the lugubrious pianissimo strokes of s gong played almost - alone. Meyerbeer has proved this in the magnificent - scene of “Robert le Diable’—“The Resurrection of the Nuns” (Example 149).
149. ROBERT LE DIABLE, ACT Il
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