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The following works are some of the most universally respected and established cornerstones of the band repertoire. All have "stood the test of time" through decades of regular performance, and many, either through an innovative use of the medium or by the fame of their composer, helped establish the wind band as a legitimate, serious performing ensemble.
"Wasn't That a Mighty Storm" likely originated as a spiritual in the black churches in the early part of the 1900s. In the days before radio and television, almost every major public event inspired songs, which spread like text messages spread today, so the precise origin of songs is often hard to pin down.
The song was one of two songs recorded with a studio orchestra during the initial stages of production. The title and theme were mainly inspired by the butterfly effect of chaos theory . The theory describes how even the smallest of changes in present conditions, such as the flapping of a butterfly's wings, can cause a chain reaction and have a ...
Wind music has two different meanings: Music written for wind instruments; Music produced using the wind (rather than, say, breath). These are chiefly string instruments, such as the Aeolian harp, but some woodwinds are also known. Wind Music can refer to: Wind Music (record label), a Taiwanese music company
In 1777, Joseph Haydn's opera "Il mondo della luna"("The world on the moon") premiered. Author and classical music critic David Hurwitz describes Joseph Haydn's choral and chamber orchestra piece, The Creation, composed in 1798, as space music, both in the sense of the sound of the music, ("a genuine piece of 'space music' featuring softly pulsating high violins and winds above low cellos and ...
String instruments: harp, violins, violas, cellos, basses, frequently abbreviated to 'str', 'strs' or similar. If any soloists or a choir are called for, their parts are usually printed between the percussion/keyboards and the strings in the score. The basic order of the instruments, as seen above, is common to all of the shorthand systems.
Xi'an drum music, consisting of wind and percussive instruments, [122] is popular around Xi'an, and has received some commercial popularity outside of China. [123] Another important instrument is the sheng, a type of Chinese pipe, an ancient instrument that is ancestor of all Western free reed instruments, such as the accordion. [124]
In a jazz, blues, or R&B context, the term "horn" refers generically to any wind instrument (e.g. saxophone, trumpet, etc.). In a sound engineering context, "horn" refers to a flare-shaped housing into which a tweeter or loudspeaker is mounted as part of a speaker cabinet. horn section