Search results for "Wind instruments" - New World Encyclopedia

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  • Orchestra in 1957. His Concerto for Wind Quintet and Orchestra was ... the university band and instructor of wind instruments, where he began his ...
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  • context, the term "percussion instruments" may have been coined ... "aerophones" are defined as wind instruments, such as a saxophone ...
    13 KB (1,907 words) - 00:31, 24 November 2022
  • Woodwind instruments are a family of musical instruments within the more general category of wind instruments. There are two main types of ...
    17 KB (2,413 words) - 21:52, 26 December 2023
  • The aeolian harp (also æolian harp or wind harp) is a musical instrument ... The aeolian harp takes its name from the Greek god of the wind, Aeolus ...
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  • music, written for a small group of instruments which traditionally could ... and Anton Rubinstein. (The four wind instruments may vary.) ...
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  • Certain musical instruments are sometimes said to play in a certain ... keys (such as C, D, A, and E); and wind instruments tend to be tuned to ...
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  • In common terminology, wind is the flow of air. In a broader sense ... oceans. Others harnessed the power of the wind to drive windmills used for ...
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  • for strings (Elgar's op. 20), wind instruments, (Strauss' op. ... outdoors and therefore could use instruments which would be too loud ...
    10 KB (1,496 words) - 09:55, 26 January 2023
  • member of the woodwind family of musical instruments. Sometimes referred to ... member in orchestras, marching bands, and wind ensembles. ...
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  • troughs, wooden fish, and yu. Wind instruments such as flute, pan-pipes ... were idiophones, drums, and wind instruments such as flutes and trumpets ...
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  • brass, woodwinds, and percussion instruments, and the music usually ... many different types of percussion instruments * The addition of vocalists ...
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  • the same fingering system as other brass instruments, but four-piston valve ... Category:musical instruments 892404391 ...
    12 KB (1,704 words) - 20:41, 28 December 2023
  • column of air. In the case of some wind instruments, sound is produced by ... instruments unlikely to be called wind instruments at all by most people ...
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  • The didgeridoo (also known as a didjeridu or didge) is a wind instrument ... as is usually the case for Western wind instruments (for example, in a clarinet ...
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  • The tuba is the largest and lowest pitched of the brass instruments ... and contrabasses (strings) are the instruments that provide the harmonic ...
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  • major works is a series of works for wind instruments and piano. He was particularly ... *Sextet for Piano and Wind Quintet, op. 100 (1932-9) *Sonata for Violin ...
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  • of the player's lips. Brass instruments are also called labrosones ... made of brass. Thus one finds brass instruments made of wood, like the ...
    34 KB (4,980 words) - 16:54, 26 March 2022
  • be in a piano style case. These are wind instruments with brass reeds to ... dissatisfied with the bold tone of the wind pressured reed organ that ...
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  • considered one of the most difficult instruments to master. ... In comparison to other modern woodwind instruments, the oboe has a ...
    18 KB (2,745 words) - 19:53, 17 November 2022
  • Clarinets actually comprise a musical family of instruments of differing ... is showcased in chamber, orchestral, and wind band writing. The tone quality ...
    30 KB (4,861 words) - 10:42, 19 December 2023

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