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tympana

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tym·pa·na  (tmp-n)
n.
A plural of tympanum.
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In the same year Biber's mass and motet Plaudite tympana were recorded by the Italian ensembles La Stagione Armonica and Tibicines with Sergio Balestracci conducting.
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But Edmondson's work belongs as much to the history, of spiritually inspired art - from early Christian sarcophagi and Romanesque tympana, to the late unfinished pietas of Michelangelo - as it does to Modern art.
William Edmondson by Borum, Jenifer P. / Artforum International
 
 
 
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