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The double bass (/ ˈ d ʌ b əl b eɪ s /), also known as the upright bass, the acoustic bass, the bull fiddle, or simply the bass, is the largest and lowest-pitched chordophone [1] in the modern symphony orchestra (excluding rare additions such as the octobass). [2]
He was a Professor of double-bass at the Vienna Conservatory from 1869 to 1910. [6] His pupils include many of the leading bassists of his time such as Ludwig Manoly, who moved to New York City to become principal bass of the New York Philharmonic and was an influential teacher. The Simandl "family tree" of bass pedagogues extends for many ...
The primary difference between these two scales is the seventh degree, with the double harmonic majorb7 scale having a flat seventh (♭7) and the Double Harmonic Major having a natural seventh (7). The scale contains a built-in tritone substitution , a dominant seventh chord a half step above the root, with strong harmonic movement towards the ...
Harmonics may be either used in or considered as the basis of just intonation systems. Composer Arnold Dreyblatt is able to bring out different harmonics on the single string of his modified double bass by slightly altering his unique bowing technique halfway between hitting and bowing the strings
A double bass concerto is a notated musical composition, usually in three parts or movements (see concerto), for a solo double bass accompanied by an orchestra.Bass concertos typically require an advanced level of technique, as they often use very high-register passages, harmonics, challenging scale and arpeggio lines and difficult bowing techniques.
Harmonic flat Lowers the pitch of a note to a pitch matching the indicated number in the harmonic series of the root (bottom) of the chord. The diagram shows a specific example, the septimal flat , in the context of a septimal minor third , in which the E ♭ is tuned exactly to a 7:6 frequency ratio with the root (C).
Theraps begins and ends with repeated descending glissandi that are loud, grinding, and brief. [13] ( The opening passage is marked "crushing the string." [3]) The body of the piece consists of three types of music: single-note glissandi based on random walks; double-stop glissandi that often move in contrary motion; and slowly-changing double-stop natural harmonics. [14]
Comparing harmonic (top) and inharmonic (bottom) waveforms. Percussion bars, such as xylophone, are hung at ≈2/9 and ≈7/9 length, and struck at 1/2 length, to reduce inharmonicity. In music, inharmonicity is the degree to which the frequencies of overtones (also known as partials or partial tones ) depart from whole multiples of the ...