Brass band

I attended the American Landscapes performed by Oklahoma State University Symphony Orchestra and Dr. Thomas Dickey conducted the orchestra. The concert was held at the Serentean Center for the Performing Arts on the campus of Oklahoma State University in Stillwater, Oklahoma. At the concert, I was an amateur, listener to this type of music. I had never witnessed a live performance of this musical style before. I would consider myself to be a passive listener. I listened to the performance with…

As the conductor entered the silent hall, the lights over the audience started to dim until only the orchestra was illuminated. With his penguin-like coattails wobbling behind him, the conductor stepped onto the gray and worn-out podium, and checked each face of his performers. The small wrinkles on his cheeks slightly lifted as each member grinned back at the conductor. The dimly-glowing white baton began to rise in the air, and with a small twist in the wrist, slowly swirled in front of the…

sure to love this! The Concert Band and Wind Ensemble of Chino Hills High School competed on Tuesday, March 27 at Walnut High School. This is one of the few competitions that our band attends during the concert season and has a large overall impact on their remarkable reputation. Our Huskies competed in two categories: Score Performance and Sight Reading. In order of highest score to lowest, it lists: Superior, Excellent, Good, and Fair. Starting with Concert Band, they received a "Superior" and…

Stuck In Property It is time, at last to speak the truth about property and how if someone fall deep into tragedy there is no way out. The book “The Jungle” poverty is often described as wage slavery. These are the people that work in bad conditions for a bad wage, as well as being treated like animals. The people in packingtown we’re fighting for their life. Many people throughout the story sacrificed themselves and everything they had for their family. One character we will be talking about…

When comparing the experience of playing a brass instrument to the experience of playing a reed instrument, it is revealed that while there may appear to be several differences, there are also a lot of similarities. A brass instrument, such as a trumpet, tuba, or trombone, is an instrument that is made of brass and whose sound is changed by the length of tubing the air travels through. A reed instrument, like a clarinet or saxophone, is an instrument that uses vibrations from a reed to produce…

The Jungle is a novel written in 1906 by Upton Sinclair, who was an American journalist and novelist. He wrote this novel to express the terrible conditions that immigrants in the United States in Chicago and similar industries had to go through. Since these immigrants had no money , they would settle for any job possible, and settled for the extreme labor in factories. Specifically, it was written about the life of Jurgis Rudkus and his family, who were immigrants who came to America to work in…

doted rhythms. Scholars describe the work as having qualities evocative of death and renewal. Section B is in relation to a sense of renewal. Its timbre and balance is different from its adjacent section. More specifically, the trombone with its brass qualities is comparable to the bugle calls of war. The imagery delineated through this intuitive use of the trombone substantiates its call to war despite its more romantic and lush sounds that do not necessarily surmise the qualities of a…

bassoons, clarinets, flutes, oboes, French horns, trumpets, trombones and timpani. What gave the light weight and airy affect was the strings and the bassoons gave an accented popping sound. The string section build up though a crescendo. The small brass section consists of French horns, trumpets and trombones. French horns add a lively tune into Brahms musical vision. Each instrument has a specific sound that is very meticulously played. When the cellos are being plucked in this song they give…

The French horn has a brassier sound than a flugelhorn. The main visual difference between a flugelhorn and a French horn is the rounder shape of the latter instrument. A flugelhorn looks like a large trumpet; the french horn does not. Sound wise, however, the two instruments do share some similarities. It takes some extra study to figure out the differences. Range The flugelhorn has the range of a typical trumpet, sounding from G# below middle C to three octaves above middle C. While the…

Toumei Answer is similar to how the narrator of “The High School Band” perceives the practicing high school band’s routine. Although Shintaro’s loss may be incomparable with the narrator’s loss, the same feeling of the once spectator affected by an absence is undeniably similar. The poem starts out in a warm September morning setting, the narrator describing a high school band that “is up with the birds and marches…