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The Tuba Player by Josef Kinzel [], 1892. The tuba has been played since the mid-19th century, in the midst of the Romantic period of Western Classical music.Along with classical music, the instrument appears in a variety of jazz styles as well film and circus music.
It first appeared in the mid-19th century, making it one of the newer instruments in the modern orchestra and concert band, and largely replaced the ophicleide. [2] Tuba is Latin for "trumpet". [3] A person who plays the tuba is called a tubaist, a tubist, [4] or simply a tuba player.
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 ...
Tuba Skinny is a traditional jazz street band based in New Orleans, Louisiana. The band's instrumentation includes cornet, clarinet, trombone, tuba, tenor banjo, guitar, frottoir, and vocals. The ensemble draws its inspiration from the early jazz, ragtime, and blues music of the 1920s and 1930s. [1] The group began as an itinerant busking band ...
Oct. 10—Rats gnawed at Richard Antoine White's tiny body when he was a baby. He still bears the scars to prove it. As an infant, his alcoholic mother abandoned him in a warehouse. Today, he is ...
Banda is a subgenre of regional Mexican music and type of ensemble in which wind (mostly brass) and percussion instruments are performed. The history of banda music in Mexico dates from the middle of the 19th century with the arrival of piston brass instruments, when community musicians tried to imitate military bands.
José Ariel Camacho Barraza (July 8, 1992 – February 25, 2015) [ 1 ] was a Mexican musician and singer-songwriter. He predominantly performed regional Mexican music, mainly corridos. [ 2 ] He was the lead singer and lead guitarist of his group, Ariel Camacho y Los Plebes del Rancho. In 2013 Ariel Camacho y Los Plebes del Rancho signed to JG ...
Musical instruments. The mellophone is a brass instrument used in marching bands and drum and bugle corps in place of French horns. It is a middle-voiced instrument, typically pitched in the key of F, though models in E ♭, D, C, and G (as a bugle) have also historically existed. It has a conical bore, like that of the euphonium and flugelhorn.