Bass clarinet

pieces in music; therefore, she looks at the drums, clarinets, flutes, and trumpets. As she believes that these instruments are the most important and coolest looking, because she has seen and heard them before in concerts. Even so, is she right? Well no. The bass clarinet is the most important instrument in a band due to its unique shape, unique sound, and it role in the band. The unique parts and shape of the bass clarinet is what makes it truly beautiful. The bass clarinet…

Jazz History Concert Report The date of the concert was October 5, 2016 and the title of the concert is “Experimental Improvisation with: Kjell Nordeson & Peter Kuhn”. The concert was performed in Mesa College Music building. Peter Kuhn had three instruments with him a bass clarinet, saxophone, and a Bb Clarinet. He used the bass clarinet and the saxophone during his first piece, and the clarinet on the second piece. Kjell Nordeson was on the drum but had a lot of instruments with him.…

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 in the…

without variations from the beginning to the Finale, structured in two bars, initially played only by drums, and it is used as introduction for two bars every time one of the themes come in. Some instruments double the key of the piece just by octaves, like the Celesta, playing the melodies two or three octaves above; other using diatonic chords (like Piccolo) Ravel escape from the rigid melodic scheme only in the Finale, where the second theme change in E major, to come back to C major after 8…

Valuable to bands and occasionally used in the orchestra, it is now best known for its extensive use in dance and jazz music. All saxophones except those [tuned] in C are transposing instruments (Saxophone). A transposing instrument is an instrument that is tuned in a different pitch rather than concert pitch, or C. Therefore, when a pitch is played on it, it will not be the same pitch played in a concert pitched instrument, such as a piano or a string instrument. Instruments are usually tuned…

the piano soloist. The instruments called for in this piece of music are two flutes, two oboes, two clarinets in B-flat, two bassoons, four horns in F, two trumpets in F, three trombones (two tenor, one bass), timpani, solo piano, and strings. MOVEMENT 1 EXPOSITION 1:04—2:00 French horns are forte for three notes, then what sounds like trombones join in along with the rest of the orchestra and the soloist Kissin on the piano. For the first measure the tempo is dramatic in tone, with the French…

Introduction to Opera Compare the characters of Carmen and Micaëla in Carmen. What are the differences between them, how is this expressed in the music, and do you think the outcome is inevitable? Introduction Bizet's Carmen is an Opera in four acts, first performed at the Opéra-Comique in Paris on 3 March with a plot based on the 1845 novella by Mérimée. Today it stands as one of the most popular french operas of all time.The Opera explores the relationship between the enchanting Carmen and…

The first song was called Joy Ride. It started of very strong with crashing cymbals and a loud drum. It was very powerful and had really good harmony all together. The second song was called Regrets and Resolutions. It started off very peaceful and quiet with flutes and clarinets. Then the horns and xylophone were added in. The flute soloist would play one song and the rest of the instruments were playing a different one, it actually sounded really cool. At one point it all the sudden got really…

Johann Christoph Denner created the clarinet soon after 1698 (Barrett, G. 1999) (Adullah, M et al. 2015). The clarinet is a woodwind instrument with a single reed. A clarinet has many different keys, and each of them helps produce a different note. “The keys were of brass, sometimes of silver and the springs were of brass.” (Barrett, G. 1999). It is an instrument that is somewhat quiet compared to others, but it can be played loudly if the player desires. “While almost every other woodwind…

march stand out from others. The instruments that grabbed my attention the most were the trumpets and timpani as they were featured more and the piece and were also the loudest out of all the instruments. By the end of the piece, I felt very patriotic as the piece felt like a march that would be performed after winning a major battle. “The Wind Quintet, Op. 43” (1922) by Carl Nielsen was a unique performance in the program as it only featured five performers. It was a special performance by…