Word Origins

 

*TYMPANY

Used in modern times as a collective noun to designate the aggregation of kettledrums in an orchestra, this word is actually the Anglicized form of the Latin tympanum, “a drum,” from the Greek tympanon, “a drum,” from typtein, “to strike, beat.” The modem use of tympany may have arisen from the mistaken belief that this spelling, or at least the pronunciation thereof, represented the Latin plural, tympani.

*Inspired by Charles Funk (1881–1957)

Noted Television Themes

 

Bruce Broughton (1945-) is an American orchestral composer of television, film, video game scores and concert works. He has composed several highly acclaimed soundtracks over his extensive career. Broughton has won eleven Emmy Awards and has been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Score for Silverado. He won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Composition for a Series, Hawaii Five-O, Dallas, and Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, to name three. Boughton won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Main Title Theme Music in 1995 for JAG and was nominated for the same award in 2002 for First Monday.

JAG theme

First Monday theme 

Bruce Broughton bio