Double bass

the double bass. The smaller instruments, the violin and viola, make a higher-pitched sound, and the larger cello and double bass make low rich sounds. They are all shaped very similar to one another, with curvy wooden bodies and wooden necks. The strings stretch over the body and neck and attach to small decorative heads, where they are tuned with small tuning pegs.…

piano theme throughout unlike if you are comparing it to Louis Armstrong’s “Potato Head Blues” with numerous instruments including the use of the piano and trumpet which blend nicely together to create a enlightening sound. In regards to the tuba vs. double…

creation of trees, plants insects, birds and beasts 4) Man and woman created 5) The desire of man and woman 6) The closing section (Coda), the man and woman kiss The first section features a legato saxophone. The second is a jazz fugue played by double bass, trombone, saxophone and trumpet. The third section returns to the opening melody, played by flute…

The four most commonly used instruments in the string family are the violin, the viola, the cello and the double (string) bass. They are all made by gluing pieces of wood together to form a hollow “sound box.” The quality of sound of one of these instruments depends on its shape, the wood it is made from, the thickness of both the top and back, and the varnish that coats its outside surface. The violin is the smallest and highest-pitched member of the string family. It is held under the chin…

perfectly. First of all, not every instrument is represented in every ensemble. A concert band, often called symphonic wind band, consists, as the name suggests, predominantly of wind instruments. Woodwinds like flutes, piccolos, oboes, clarinets, bass-clarinets, bassoons and contrabassoons as well as brass instruments like trumpets, french horns, trombones, euphoniums or baritones and tubas are joined by saxophones, percussion…

In 1974, Herbie Hancock’s Headhunters performed live in Germany. Pianist Herbie Hancock was accompanied by Bennie Maupin on saxophone, Paul Jackson on electric bass, Mike Clark on drums, and Bill Summer on percussion. The group performed a total of 5 songs including “Palm Grease”, “Sly”, “Butterfly”, “Spank A Lee”, and “Chameleon”. The second track performed in the concert is “Sly” and runs for ten minutes. The song begins with saxophonist Bennie Maupin playing while the rest of the group…

different types of Saxophones. There are four normally used in concert bands and the rest are on the more rare side. There is the Sopranissimo, Soprillo, Sopranino, Soprano, Alto (Figure 2), Tenor, C-Melody, Baritone, Bass, Double Bass, Contra Bass, Sub Contra Bass, Double Contra Bass, Claro Sax, Slide Sax, Canno, Overtone, Tubax, Acrylic, Goofus, Cousenon Saxie, Kazoo Circa, Casio Digital Horn and the Henry Potter Fife. Results: How a Saxophone makes sound. (Saxophone acoustics)…

On Sunday, May 21st, American soprano saxophonist Jane Ira Bloom has stepped on the bandstand of Cornelia Street Café accompanied by a taut rhythm section consisting of longtime cohorts Mark Helias on double bass and Bobby Previte on drums and percussion. The show served to promote her latest album, Early Americans (Outline, 2016), a solid body of work inspired by the work of the British poet Emily Dickinson. The opening track of the album, “Song Patrol”, was also the opener of the performance…

Armstrong’s comments on his makeup and how hard the pianist is playing relax the atmosphere and sustain my attention on what he is saying. The instrumental play reacts to what he is saying, with his voice acting as a conductor, pulling the drums, bass, piano, trombone, and finally clarinet into playing. It seems that a lot of call and response is going on in this piece, with Armstrong’s voice starting out the sequence and the various instruments responding in time. Armstrong switches to playing…

The Romantic period is in the 1820s to the 1900s, the music written in that period are artistic and literary. Some famous composers are Tchaikovsky, Chopin and Schumann. ‘Vltava’is a piece composed by Bedrich Smetana in the Romantic Period for symphony orchestra. This piece has 6 movements and it describes the flow of water that runs through Czechoslovakia and Prague from day to night. It contains a lot of emotions and it is one of the most famous nationalism work. Fig. 1: It shows all the…