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  2. Shorthand for orchestra instrumentation - Wikipedia

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    3 flutes (1 doubling piccolo), piccolo, alto flute, 4 oboes (one doubling english horn), english horn, 3 clarinets (one doubling bass clarinet), D clarinet (doubling E-flat clarinet), bass clarinet, 4 bassoons (one doubling contrabassoon), contrabassoon, 8 horns (2 doubling tenor tuba), 4 trumpets (1 doubling bass trumpet), piccolo trumpet, 3 ...

  3. Figured bass - Wikipedia

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    A double bass may be added, particularly when accompanying a lower-pitched solo voice (e.g., a bass singer). Typically performers match the instrument families used in the full ensemble: including bassoon when the work includes oboes or other winds, but restricting it to cello and/or [citation needed] double bass if only strings are involved.

  4. List of chordophones by Hornbostel–Sachs number - Wikipedia

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    The plane of the strings runs parallel with the resonator's surface. 321.1 Bow lutes - Each string has its own flexible carrier. 321.2 Yoke lutes or lyres - The strings are attached to a yoke which lies in the same plane as the sound-table and consists of two arms and a cross-bar. 321.21 Bowl lyres. 321.22 Box lyres.

  5. List of string instruments - Wikipedia

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    Bass Stick; Chitarra battente, a.k.a. "knocking guitar" (Italy) Clavichord (keyboard instrument) Clavinet (electric keyboard instrument) Đàn tam thập lục (Vietnam) Fiddlesticks; Hammered dulcimer; Harpejji; Jhallari; Khim (Thailand and Cambodia) Piano (Keyboard instrument) Santur/Santoor (Persia, India, Pakistan, Greece) Tsymbaly (Ukraine ...

  6. List of musical symbols - Wikipedia

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    Musical symbols are marks and symbols in musical notation that indicate various aspects of how a piece of music is to be performed. There are symbols to communicate information about many musical elements, including pitch, duration, dynamics, or articulation of musical notes; tempo, metre, form (e.g., whether sections are repeated), and details about specific playing techniques (e.g., which ...

  7. Farfisa - Wikipedia

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    The Fast 2 has a four-octave keyboard (C to C) with a one-octave manual bass on the left. There are four voice stops (flute, clarinet, reed and strings), all at 8', a two-speed vibrato and an optional swell pedal. The Fast 3 features more sounds, including 16' bass and clarinet, 8' oboe and trumpet, and with 8' and 4' flute.

  8. Bassline - Wikipedia

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    Bassline (also known as a bass line or bass part) is the term used in many styles of music, such as blues, jazz, funk, dub and electronic, traditional, and classical music, for the low-pitched instrumental part or line played (in jazz and some forms of popular music) by a rhythm section instrument such as the electric bass, double bass, cello, tuba or keyboard (piano, Hammond organ, electric ...

  9. Alberti bass - Wikipedia

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    Equivalent patterns in 4 4 and 3 4 [1] Play 4 4 ⓘ and Play 3 4 ⓘ Alberti bass patterns on V 7 Alberti bass in the opening of Thomas Attwood's (1765–1838) Sonatina in G Major [2] Play ⓘ Alberti bass in the opening of Muzio Clementi's Sonatina in G, Op. 36, No. 2 (1797) [3] Play ⓘ The opening of the 5th of Beethoven's Seven Variations on "God Save the King" WoO 78 (1804) introduces ...