Baritone saxophone

American Overture for Band is a level six, wind band, piece that has been played and enjoyed by advanced high school and university bands. The scoring is dense and somewhat atypical, however. Jenkins includes a sting bass, a cello, three baritone parts, three flute parts, and four clarinet and trombone parts. Jenkins includes the string bass part because is important to the texture of the piece. The tuba cues, like all the cues in the piece, are “safety doublings” and “should be played only…

piccolo. The trombone later joined with a variety of bells, and tones. The bands now had 4 different parts of brass. A very important influence in the late 1800’s were the saxophones. They came in different ways, mostly soprano, alto, tenor, and baritone sax. The bands of the late 1800’s had a wide range of use for saxophones. Bands in the U.S at the time were mostly military music, unlike Europe, at the time, the U.S had a full band. This was because of the increase of instruction to the music…

I would place either a saxophone (soprano/alto/tenor/baritone) or an electric keyboard because those are the instruments that I can play. I chose to put an instrument in the time capsule because knowing how innovative mankind is, we will somehow invent a device that can be played and make sounds…

completely hated playing the flute because I was never going to be as good as my sister and in my mind it was the worst instrument ever. As the year went on I realised that I hated playing the flute so much that I changed instruments to the baritone saxophone. As I got into middle school I attempted to be a better student and get better grades because I did not want to be known as the failed little brother who never lives up to the very smart older sibling; I wanted to be at conferences and…

Manik Nindra Performance #1: Chicago. 3/1/16 This performance took place from February 24th through the 28th of 2016 in Russell Auditorium. The musical’s setting took place in the 1920’s and consisted of 2 acts. Chicago consisted of jazz music, liquor, sex, and it showed how corrupt the judicial system was back then. After the show I spoke to Nich Stinson, who performed as a member of the male ensemble, and he told me that the musical was based on a true story. The first act of Chicago left…

Cool jazz is type of style of music that brought up from the United States after World War II. Cool jazz became popular during 1949-1959 and was considered the forefront of its time. What made Cool Jazz so diverse in its nature was its soft tempos and light tone. Cool Jazz was known for its large venue of players in a band, its mixed instruments and smooth rhythm. Jazz musicians at the time where moving away from the complexity of improvised solos and into a more arrangement and compression.…

A school band is a group of student musicians who rehearse and perform instrumental music together. A concert band is usually under the direction of one or more conductors (band directors). A school band consists of woodwind instruments, brass instruments and percussion instruments, although upper level bands may also have string basses or bass guitar. School bands tend to be more common in the United States. School bands in the United Kingdom are generally similar to those in the US although…