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Vagn Holmboe, Tuba Concerto, op. 127 (1976) Helmut Lachenmann, Harmonica (1981–83) Torbjörn Iwan Lundquist, Landscape for tuba, string orchestra and piano (1978) [5] Arild Plau, Concerto for solo tuba and string orchestra (1990) [8] Jan Sandström, Lemon House, Tuba Concerto (2002) Gunther Schuller, Capriccio (1960) [3]
The main tube of a B ♭ tuba is approximately 18 feet (5.5 m) long, while that of a C tuba is 16 feet (4.9 m), of an E ♭ tuba 13 feet (4.0 m), and of an F tuba 12 feet (3.7 m). The instrument has a conical bore , meaning the bore diameter increases as a function of the tubing length from the mouthpiece to the bell.
String instruments are capable of producing a variety of extended technique sounds. These alternative playing techniques have been used extensively since the 20th century. Particularly famous examples of string instrument extended technique can be found in the music of Krzysztof Penderecki (particularly his Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima), Witold Lutosławski, George Crumb, and Helmut ...
This tuba is playable but two players are needed: one to operate the valves, and one to blow into the mouthpiece. Frederick Young plays a King BB♭ tuba that was converted into a double tuba (in BB♭ and EEE♮) by Dietrich Kleine-Horst (of the Herbert Gronitz Brass Instrument Company in Hamburg, Germany) in 1990. [8] (The added EEE side is ...
The Wagner tuba is built with rotary valves, which (like those on the horn) are played with the left hand. [4] Horn players traditionally double on Wagner tubas because the mouthpiece and fingering are identical, [3] though the size of the bore of the Wagner tuba is midway between that of a euphonium and a horn.
The sousaphone (/ ˈ s uː z ə f oʊ n / SOO-zə-fohn) is a brass musical instrument in the tuba family. Created around 1893 by J. W. Pepper at the direction of American bandleader John Philip Sousa (after whom the instrument was then named), it was designed to be easier to play than the concert tuba while standing or marching, as well as to carry the sound of the instrument above the heads ...
Playing a harmonic on a string. Here, "+7" indicates that the string is held down at the position for raising the pitch by 7 semitones. Playing a string harmonic (a flageolet) is a string instrument technique that uses the nodes of natural harmonics of a musical string to isolate overtones. Playing string harmonics produces high pitched tones ...
The contrabass bugle (usually shortened to contra or simply called the marching tuba) is the lowest-pitched brass instrument in the drum and bugle corps and marching band hornline. [1] It is the drum corps' counterpart to the marching band's sousaphone : the lowest-pitched member of the hornline, and a replacement for the concert tuba on the ...