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125 relations: A cappella, Acoustic guitar, All-female band, Alto saxophone, Arrangement, Band (rock and pop), Banda music, Bandleader, Barbershop quartet, Baritone saxophone, Baroque music, Bass drum, Bass guitar, Bass instrument, Basso continuo, Bassoon, Big band, Boy band, Brass band, Brass instrument, Brass quintet, Brass section, Cambridge University Press, Cannon, Cello, Cello Suites (Bach), Chamber music, Charles Scribner's Sons, Choir, Clarinet, Clarinet Quintet (Mozart), Classical guitar, Classical music, Classical period (music), Close and open harmony, Co-ed group, Concert band, Concertmaster, Conducting, Decet (music), Doo-wop, Double bass, Drum and bugle corps (modern), Drum kit, Duet, Duodecet, Electric guitar, Figured bass, Flute, French horn, ... Expand index (75 more) »
- Musical groups
A cappella
Music performed a cappella, less commonly spelled a capella in English, is music performed by a singer or a singing group without instrumental accompaniment.
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Acoustic guitar
An acoustic guitar is a musical instrument in the string family.
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All-female band
An all-female band is a musical group in popular music that is exclusively composed of female musicians.
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Alto saxophone
The alto saxophone is a member of the saxophone family of woodwind instruments.
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Arrangement
In music, an arrangement is a musical adaptation of an existing composition.
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Band (rock and pop)
A rock band or pop band is a small musical ensemble that performs rock music, pop music, or a related genre.
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Banda music
Banda is a subgenre of regional Mexican music and type of ensemble in which wind (mostly brass) and percussion instruments are performed.
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Bandleader
A bandleader is the leader of a music group such as a dance band, rock or pop band or jazz quartet.
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Barbershop quartet
A barbershop quartet is a group of four singers who sing music in the barbershop style, characterized by four-part harmony without instrumental accompaniment, or a cappella.
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Baritone saxophone
The baritone saxophone (sometimes abbreviated to "bari sax") is a member of the saxophone family of instruments, larger (and lower-pitched) than the tenor saxophone, but smaller (and higher-pitched) than the bass.
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Baroque music
Baroque music refers to the period or dominant style of Western classical music composed from about 1600 to 1750.
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Bass drum
The bass drum is a large drum that produces a note of low definite or indefinite pitch.
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Bass guitar
The bass guitar, electric bass or simply bass is the lowest-pitched member of the guitar family.
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Bass instrument
A bass instrument is a musical instrument that produces tones in the low-pitched range C2–C4.
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Basso continuo
Basso continuo parts, almost universal in the Baroque era (1600–1750), provided the harmonic structure of the music by supplying a bassline and a chord progression.
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Bassoon
The bassoon is a musical instrument in the woodwind family, which plays in the tenor and bass ranges.
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Big band
A big band or jazz orchestra is a type of musical ensemble of jazz music that usually consists of ten or more musicians with four sections: saxophones, trumpets, trombones, and a rhythm section.
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Boy band
A boy band is a vocal group consisting of young male singers, usually in their teenage years or in their twenties at the time of formation.
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Brass band
A brass band is a musical ensemble generally consisting primarily of brass instruments, most often with a percussion section.
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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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Brass quintet
A brass quintet is a five-piece musical ensemble composed of brass instruments.
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Brass section
The brass section of the orchestra, concert band, and jazz ensemble consist of brass instruments, and is one of the main sections in all three ensembles.
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Cambridge University Press
Cambridge University Press is the university press of the University of Cambridge.
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Cannon
A cannon is a large-caliber gun classified as a type of artillery, which usually launches a projectile using explosive chemical propellant.
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Cello
The violoncello, often simply abbreviated as cello, is a bowed (sometimes plucked and occasionally hit) string instrument of the violin family.
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Cello Suites (Bach)
The six Cello Suites, BWV 1007–1012, are suites for unaccompanied cello by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750).
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Chamber music
Chamber music is a form of classical music that is composed for a small group of instruments—traditionally a group that could fit in a palace chamber or a large room.
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Charles Scribner's Sons
Charles Scribner's Sons, or simply Scribner's or Scribner, is an American publisher based in New York City, known for publishing American authors including Henry James, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Kurt Vonnegut, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Stephen King, Robert A. Heinlein, Thomas Wolfe, George Santayana, John Clellon Holmes, Don DeLillo, and Edith Wharton.
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Choir
A choir (also known as a chorale or chorus) is a musical ensemble of singers.
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Clarinet
The clarinet is a single-reed musical instrument in the woodwind family, with a nearly cylindrical bore and a flared bell.
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Clarinet Quintet (Mozart)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Clarinet Quintet, K. 581, was written in 1789 for the clarinetist Anton Stadler.
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Classical guitar
The classical guitar, also known as Spanish guitar, is a member of the guitar family used in classical music and other styles.
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Classical music
Classical music generally refers to the art music of the Western world, considered to be distinct from Western folk music or popular music traditions.
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Classical period (music)
The Classical Period was an era of classical music between roughly 1750 and 1820.
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Close and open harmony
A chord is in close harmony (also called close position or close structure) if its notes are arranged within a narrow range, usually with no more than an octave between the top and bottom notes.
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Co-ed group
A co-ed group, also known as a coed group, mixed-gender group or mixed-sex group, is a vocal group that includes both male and female singers, usually in their teenage years or in their twenties.
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Concert band
A concert band, also called a wind band, wind ensemble, wind symphony, wind orchestra, symphonic band, the symphonic winds, or symphonic wind ensemble, is a performing ensemble consisting of members of the woodwind, brass, and percussion families of instruments, and occasionally including the harp, double bass, or bass guitar.
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Concertmaster
The concertmaster (from the German Konzertmeister), first chair (U.S.) or leader (U.K.) is the principal first violin player in an orchestra (clarinet or oboe in a concert band).
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Conducting
Conducting is the art of directing a musical performance, such as an orchestral or choral concert.
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Decet (music)
In music, a decet—sometimes dectet, decimet, decimette, or even tentet—is a composition that requires ten musicians for a performance, or a musical group that consists of ten people.
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Doo-wop
Doo-wop (also spelled doowop and doo wop) is a subgenre of rhythm and blues music that originated in African-American communities during the 1940s, mainly in the large cities of the United States, including New York, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Chicago, Baltimore, Newark, Detroit, Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles.
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Double bass
The double bass, also known as the upright bass, the acoustic bass, or simply the bass, is the largest and lowest-pitched chordophone in the modern symphony orchestra (excluding rare additions such as the octobass).
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Drum and bugle corps (modern)
A modern drum and bugle corps is a musical marching unit consisting of brass instruments, percussion instruments, electronic instruments, and color guard. Typically operating as independent non-profit organizations, corps perform in competitions, parades, festivals, and other civic functions.
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Drum kit
A drum kit (also called a drum set, trap set, or simply drums in popular music context) is a collection of drums, cymbals, and sometimes other auxiliary percussion instruments set up to be played by one person.
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Duet
A duet is a musical composition for two performers in which the performers have equal importance to the piece, often a composition involving two singers or two pianists.
Duodecet
In music, a duodecet—sometimes duodectet, or duodecimette—is a composition which requires twelve musicians for a performance, or a musical group that consists of twelve people.
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Electric guitar
An electric guitar is a guitar that requires external amplification in order to be heard at typical performance volumes, unlike a standard acoustic guitar.
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Figured bass
Figured bass is musical notation in which numerals and symbols appear above or below (or next to) a bass note.
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Flute
The flute is a member of a family of musical instruments in the woodwind group.
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French horn
The French horn (since the 1930s known simply as the horn in professional music circles) is a brass instrument made of tubing wrapped into a coil with a flared bell.
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Girl group
A girl group is a music act featuring several female singers who generally harmonize together.
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Girlschool
Girlschool are a British rock band that formed in the new wave of British heavy metal scene in 1978.
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Glockenspiel
The glockenspiel (or,: bells and: play) or bells is a percussion instrument consisting of pitched aluminum or steel bars arranged in a keyboard layout.
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Gospel quartet
The term Gospel quartet refers to several different traditions of harmony singing.
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Guitarrón mexicano
The guitarrón mexicano (Spanish for "big Mexican guitar", the suffix -ón being a Spanish augmentative) or Mexican guitarrón is a very large, deep-bodied Mexican six-string acoustic bass guitar played traditionally in Mariachi groups.
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Hammond organ
The Hammond organ is an electric organ invented by Laurens Hammond and John M. Hanert and first manufactured in 1935.
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Harp
The harp is a stringed musical instrument that has individual strings running at an angle to its soundboard; the strings are plucked with the fingers.
Harpsichord
A harpsichord (clavicembalo, clavecin, Cembalo; clavecín, cravo, клавеси́н (tr. klavesín or klavesin), klavecimbel, klawesyn) is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard.
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Heavy metal music
Heavy metal (or simply metal) is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the United Kingdom and United States.
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Historica Canada
Historica Canada is a Canadian charitable organization dedicated to promoting the country's history and citizenship.
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Horn section
A horn section is a group of musicians playing horns. Musical ensemble and horn section are musical groups.
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Instrumental
An instrumental or instrumental song is music normally without any vocals, although it might include some inarticulate vocals, such as shouted backup vocals in a big band setting.
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Jazz
Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues, ragtime, European harmony and African rhythmic rituals.
Jug band
A jug band is a band employing a jug player and a mix of conventional and homemade instruments.
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Karaoke
Karaoke (カラオケ, clipped compound of Japanese kara 空 "empty" and ōkesutora オーケストラ "orchestra") is a type of interactive entertainment system usually offered in clubs and bars, where people sing along to pre-recorded accompaniment using a microphone.
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Marching band
A marching band is a group of instrumental musicians who perform while marching, often for entertainment or competition.
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Mariachi
Mariachi is an ensemble of musicians that typically play ranchera, the regional Mexican music dating back to at least the 18th century, evolving over time in the countryside of various regions of western Mexico.
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Martial music
Martial music or military music is a specific genre of music intended for use in military settings performed by professional soldiers called field musicians.
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Medley (music)
In music, a medley is a piece composed from parts of existing pieces played one after another, sometimes overlapping.
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Military band
A military band is a group of personnel that performs musical duties for military functions, usually for the armed forces.
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Music industry
The music industry refers to the individuals and organizations that earn money by writing songs and musical compositions, creating and selling recorded music and sheet music, presenting concerts, as well as the organizations that aid, train, represent and supply music creators.
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Musical collective
Musical collective is a phrase used to describe a group of musicians in which membership is flexible and creative control is shared.
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Musical instrument
A musical instrument is a device created or adapted to make musical sounds.
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Nonet (music)
In music, a nonet is a chamber music composition which requires nine musicians for a performance.
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Numeral prefix
Numeral or number prefixes are prefixes derived from numerals or occasionally other numbers.
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Oboe
The oboe is a type of double-reed woodwind instrument.
Octet (music)
In music, an octet is a musical ensemble consisting of eight instruments or voices, or a musical composition written for such an ensemble.
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Orchestra
An orchestra is a large instrumental ensemble typical of classical music, which combines instruments from different families.
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Ottoman military band
Ottoman military bands were the first-recorded military marching bands.
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Percussion ensemble
A percussion ensemble is a musical ensemble consisting of only percussion instruments.
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Percussion instrument
A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or struck against another similar instrument.
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Percussion section
The percussion section is one of the main divisions of the orchestra and the concert band.
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Piano
The piano is a keyboard instrument that produces sound when its keys are depressed, through engagement of an action whose hammers strike strings.
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Piano quintet
In classical music, a piano quintet is a work of chamber music written for piano and four other instruments, most commonly (since 1842) a string quartet (i.e., two violins, viola, and cello).
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Pipe organ
The pipe organ is a musical instrument that produces sound by driving pressurised air (called wind) through the organ pipes selected from a keyboard.
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Pops orchestra
A pops orchestra is an orchestra that plays popular music (generally traditional pop) and show tunes as well as well-known classical works.
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Popular music
Popular music is music with wide appeal that is typically distributed to large audiences through the music industry.
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Quartet
In music, a quartet is an ensemble of four singers or instrumental performers.
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Quintet
A quintet is a group containing five members.
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Rhythm section
A rhythm section is a group of musicians within a music ensemble or band that provides the underlying rhythm, harmony and pulse of the accompaniment, providing a rhythmic and harmonic reference and "beat" for the rest of the band.
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Saxophone
The saxophone (often referred to colloquially as the sax) is a type of single-reed woodwind instrument with a conical body, usually made of brass.
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Septet
A septet is a formation containing exactly seven members.
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Sextet
A sextet (or hexad) is a formation containing exactly six members.
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Sinfonietta (orchestra)
A sinfonietta is a musical group that is larger than a chamber ensemble but smaller than a full-size or symphony orchestra.
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Singing
Singing is the act of creating musical sounds with the voice.
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Snare drum
The snare drum (or side drum) is a percussion instrument that produces a sharp staccato sound when the head is struck with a drum stick, due to the use of a series of stiff wires held under tension against the lower skin.
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Soprano saxophone
The soprano saxophone is a small, high-pitched member of the saxophone family of woodwind instruments invented in the 1840s by Belgian instrument maker Adolphe Sax.
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String (music)
In music, strings are long flexible structures on string instruments that produce sound through vibration.
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String band
A string band is an old-time music or jazz ensemble made up mainly or solely of string instruments.
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String orchestra
A string orchestra is an orchestra consisting solely of a string section made up of the bowed strings used in Western Classical music.
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String quartet
The term string quartet refers to either a type of musical composition or a group of four people who play them.
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String section
The string section is composed of bowed instruments belonging to the violin family. Musical ensemble and string section are musical groups.
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Supergroup (music)
A supergroup is a musical group formed with members who are already successful as solo artists or as members of other successful groups.
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Suzi Quatro
Susan Kay Quatro (born June 3, 1950) is an American singer, bass guitarist, songwriter and actor.
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Symphony
A symphony is an extended musical composition in Western classical music, most often for orchestra.
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Synthesizer
A synthesizer (also synthesiser, or simply synth) is an electronic musical instrument that generates audio signals.
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Tenor saxophone
The tenor saxophone is a medium-sized member of the saxophone family, a group of instruments invented by Adolphe Sax in the 1840s.
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The Canadian Encyclopedia
The Canadian Encyclopedia (TCE; L'Encyclopédie canadienne) is the national encyclopedia of Canada, published online by the Toronto-based historical organization Historica Canada, with the support of the federal Department of Canadian Heritage.
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The Carnival of the Animals
The Carnival of the Animals (Le Carnaval des animaux) is a humorous musical suite of 14 movements, including "The Swan", by the French composer Camille Saint-Saëns.
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Theremin
The theremin (--> originally known as the ætherphone, etherphone, thereminophone or termenvox/ thereminvox) is an electronic musical instrument controlled without physical contact by the performer (who is known as a thereminist).
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Timpani
Timpani or kettledrums (also informally called timps) are musical instruments in the percussion family.
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Trio (music)
In music, a trio (from the Italian) is any of the following.
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Trombone
The trombone (Posaune, Italian, French: trombone) is a musical instrument in the brass family.
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Trumpet
The trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz ensembles.
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Tuba
The tuba is the largest and lowest-pitched musical instrument in the brass family.
Vihuela
The vihuela is a 15th-century fretted plucked Spanish string instrument, shaped like a guitar (figure-of-eight form offering strength and portability) but tuned like a lute.
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Viola
The viola is a string instrument that is usually bowed.
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Violin
The violin, colloquially known as a fiddle, is a wooden chordophone, and is the smallest, and thus highest-pitched instrument (soprano) in regular use in the violin family.
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Vocal music
Vocal music is a type of singing performed by one or more singers, either with instrumental accompaniment, or without instrumental accompaniment (a cappella), in which singing provides the main focus of the piece.
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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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Wind machine
The wind machine (also called an aeoliphone or aelophon) is a friction idiophone used to produce the sound of wind for orchestral compositions and musical theater productions.
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Wind quintet
A wind quintet, also known as a woodwind quintet, is a group of five wind players (most commonly flute, oboe, clarinet, French horn and bassoon).
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (27 January 17565 December 1791) was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical period.
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Woodwind instrument
Woodwind instruments are a family of musical instruments within the greater category of wind instruments.
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Woodwind section
The woodwind section, which consists of woodwind instruments, is one of the main sections of an orchestra or concert band.
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See also
Musical groups
- Chapel (music)
- Ensemble librarianship
- Horn section
- Mixed-gender bands
- Musical ensemble
- String section
References
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