26 relations: Adolphe Sax, Aerophone, American Civil War, Baritone horn, Brass instrument, British brass band, Cecil Forsyth, Concert band, Cornet, Désiré Dondeyne, Distin family, Et exspecto resurrectionem mortuorum, Euphonium, Flugelhorn, Harmonic series (music), Hector Berlioz, Les Troyens, Mellophone, Mouthpiece (brass), Olivier Messiaen, Saxophone, Scientific pitch notation, Sudrophone, Tenor horn, Tuba, Wind instrument.
Adolphe Sax
Antoine-Joseph "Adolphe" Sax (6 November 1814 – 7 February 1894) was a Belgian inventor and musician who invented the saxophone in the early 1840s (patented in 1846).
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Aerophone
An aerophone is any musical instrument that produces sound primarily by causing a body of air to vibrate, without the use of strings or membranes, and without the vibration of the instrument itself adding considerably to the sound.
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American Civil War
The American Civil War (also known by other names) was a war fought in the United States from 1861 to 1865.
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Baritone horn
The baritone horn, or sometimes just called baritone, is a low-pitched brass instrument in the saxhorn family.
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Brass instrument
A brass instrument is a musical instrument that produces sound by sympathetic vibration of air in a tubular resonator in sympathy with the vibration of the player's lips.
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British brass band
A British brass band is a musical ensemble comprising a standardized range of brass and percussion instruments.
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Cecil Forsyth
Cecil Forsyth (30 November 1870 - 7 December 1941) was an English composer and musicologist.
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Concert band
A concert band, also called wind ensemble, symphonic band, wind symphony, wind orchestra, wind band, symphonic winds, symphony band, or symphonic wind ensemble, is a performing ensemble consisting of members of the woodwind, brass, and percussion families of instruments, along with the double bass or bass guitar.
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Cornet
The cornet is a brass instrument similar to the trumpet but distinguished from it by its conical bore, more compact shape, and mellower tone quality.
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Désiré Dondeyne
Désiré Louis Corneille Dondeyne (21 July 1921 – 12 February 2015) was a French conductor, composer and teacher who was born in Laon in the Aisne département.
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Distin family
The Distin family was a family of British musicians in the 19th century who performed on saxhorns and were influential in the evolution of brass instruments in then popular music.
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Et exspecto resurrectionem mortuorum
Et exspecto resurrectionem mortuorum (And I await the resurrection of the dead) is a work for wind orchestra by Olivier Messiaen, written in 1964 and first performed the following year.
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Euphonium
The euphonium is a large, conical-bore, baritone-voiced brass instrument that derives its name from the Ancient Greek word εὔφωνος euphōnos, meaning "well-sounding" or "sweet-voiced" (εὖ eu means "well" or "good" and φωνή phōnē means "sound", hence "of good sound").
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Flugelhorn
The flugelhorn (—also spelled fluegelhorn, flugel horn, or Flügelhorn—from German, wing horn, or flank horn) is a brass instrument pitched in B which resembles a trumpet, but has a wider, conical bore.
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Harmonic series (music)
A harmonic series is the sequence of sounds—pure tones, represented by sinusoidal waves—in which the frequency of each sound is an integer multiple of the fundamental, the lowest frequency.
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Hector Berlioz
Louis-Hector Berlioz; 11 December 1803 – 8 March 1869) was a French Romantic composer, best known for his compositions Symphonie fantastique, Harold en Italie, Roméo et Juliette, Grande messe des morts (Requiem), L'Enfance du Christ, Benvenuto Cellini, La Damnation de Faust, and Les Troyens. Berlioz made significant contributions to the modern orchestra with his Treatise on Instrumentation. He specified huge orchestral forces for some of his works, and conducted several concerts with more than 1,000 musicians. He also composed around 50 compositions for voice, accompanied by piano or orchestra. His influence was critical for the further development of Romanticism, especially in composers like Richard Wagner, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Franz Liszt, Richard Strauss, and Gustav Mahler.
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Les Troyens
Les Troyens (in English: The Trojans) is a French grand opera in five acts by Hector Berlioz.
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Mellophone
The mellophone is a three-valved brass instrument pitched in the key of F or E. It has a conical bore, like that of the euphonium and flugelhorn.
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Mouthpiece (brass)
On brass instruments the mouthpiece is the part of the instrument placed on the player's lips.
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Olivier Messiaen
Olivier Eugène Prosper Charles Messiaen (December 10, 1908 – April 27, 1992) was a French composer, organist, and ornithologist, one of the major composers of the 20th century.
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Saxophone
The saxophone (also referred to as the sax) is a family of woodwind instruments.
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Scientific pitch notation
Scientific pitch notation (or SPN, also known as American Standard Pitch Notation (ASPN) and International Pitch Notation (IPN)) is a method of specifying musical pitch by combining a musical note name (with accidental if needed) and a number identifying the pitch's octave.
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Sudrophone
The sudrophone is a brass instrument invented by François Sudre (1844–1912).
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Tenor horn
The tenor horn (British English; alto horn in American English, Althorn in Germany; occasionally referred to as E horn) is a brass instrument in the saxhorn family, and is usually pitched in E. It has a bore that is mostly conical, like the flugelhorn and baritone horn, and normally uses a deep, cornet-like mouthpiece.
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Tuba
The tuba is the largest and lowest-pitched musical instrument in the brass family.
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Wind instrument
A wind instrument is a musical instrument that contains some type of resonator (usually a tube), in which a column of air is set into vibration by the player blowing into (or over) a mouthpiece set at or near the end of the resonator.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saxhorn