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The country had what may be its first Mandolin festival in June 2015, and has at least one Mandolin Orchestra. [ 100 ] [ 101 ] One professional musician to use the mandolin is Sumru Ağıryürüyen who is known for singing and playing many styles of music including world music , Klezmer , Turkish folk, Balkan folk, blues, jazz, krautrock ...
A wind orchestra or concert band is a large classical ensemble generally made up of between 40 and 70 musicians from the woodwind, brass, and percussion families, along with the double bass. The concert band has a larger number and variety of wind instruments than the symphony orchestra but does not have a string section (although a single ...
An orchestra (/ ˈ ɔːr k ɪ s t r ə /; OR-ki-strə) [1] is a large instrumental ensemble typical of classical music, which combines instruments from different families. There are typically four main sections of instruments: String instruments, such as the violin, viola, cello, and double bass
A family of musical instruments is a grouping of several different but related sizes or types of instruments. Some schemes of musical instrument classification, such as the Hornbostel-Sachs system, are based on a hierarchy of instrument families and families of families. Some commonly recognized families are: Strings family; Woodwind family ...
In English early Baroque music, a broken consort is an ensemble featuring instruments from more than one family, for example a group featuring both string and wind instruments. A consort consisting entirely of instruments of the same family, on the other hand, was referred to as a "whole consort ", though this expression is not found until well ...
Here’s a roundup of 28 countries and principalities with royal families and rulers—including a few you‘ve probably never heard of. Spanish Royal Family Zodiac Signs 1.
This category contains links to articles or categories which relate to families containing two or more musicians, either in the same or different generations, who have been actively engaged in the world of Western classical music.
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