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  2. Symphony No. 5 (Mahler) - Wikipedia

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    The Symphony No. 5 by Gustav Mahler was composed in 1901 and 1902, mostly during the summer months at Mahler's holiday cottage at Maiernigg.Among its most distinctive features are the trumpet solo that opens the work with a rhythmic motif similar to the opening of Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 5, the horn solos in the third movement and the frequently performed Adagietto.

  3. Seven trumpets - Wikipedia

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    The fifth trumpet is the "first woe" of three. Before this trumpet sounds, an angel (translated as an eagle in some versions) appears, and warns, "Woe, woe, woe, to those who dwell on the earth, because of the remaining blasts of the trumpet of the three angels who are about to sound!" [8]

  4. List of transposing instruments - Wikipedia

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    May be B ♭ 3 like a B ♭ trumpet Bass Trombone C4 The Bass Trombone is the same as the Tenor Trombone except it has a larger bore and an extra trigger Contrabass Trombone C4 Plays the same notes as a tuba Trumpet: C Piccolo Trumpet: C 5: Piccolo trumpet: B ♭ 4: Piccolo Trumpet in A A 4: F trumpet F 4: E trumpet E 4: E ♭ trumpet E ♭ 4 ...

  5. Perfect fifth - Wikipedia

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    In music theory, a perfect fifth is the musical interval corresponding to a pair of pitches with a frequency ratio of 3:2, or very nearly so.. In classical music from Western culture, a fifth is the interval from the first to the last of the first five consecutive notes in a diatonic scale. [2]

  6. Trumpet - Wikipedia

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    The English word trumpet was first used in the late 14th century. [5] The word came from Old French trompette, which is a diminutive of trompe. [5] The word trump, meaning trumpet, was first used in English in 1300.

  7. Circle of fifths - Wikipedia

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    Circle of fifths showing major and minor keys. In music theory, the circle of fifths (sometimes also cycle of fifths) is a way of organizing pitches as a sequence of perfect fifths.

  8. Symphony No. 5 (Shostakovich) - Wikipedia

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    This provocative insight is therefore part of Shostakovich's "creative response of a Soviet artist to justified criticism". However, since the fourth symphony had been withdrawn before the premiere in 1936 and could only be presented to the public 25 years later, the extramusical context was lost when the 5th symphony was premiered in Leningrad.

  9. Symphony No. 5 (Sibelius) - Wikipedia

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    The Symphony No. 5 in E-flat major, Op. 82, is a three-movement work for orchestra written from 1914 to 1915 by the Finnish composer Jean Sibelius.He revised it in 1916 and again from 1917 to 1919, at which point it reached its final form.