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Alboka (Basque Country, Spain) Arghul (Egypt and other Arabic nations) Aulochrome. Chalumeau. Clarinet. Piccolo (or sopranino, or octave) clarinet. Sopranino clarinet (including E-flat clarinet) Soprano clarinet. Saxonette.
The music begins in emphatic fashion: a pickup G, which is then followed by a C that jumps up to an F ♯ (a tritone). A chromatic 3-note sequence follows. The low instruments then begin playing a theme that would perpetuate the rest of the piece. The music evolves into a dance, played by the violins and the woodwinds.
Woodwind instruments are a family of musical instruments within the greater category of wind instruments. Common examples include flute, clarinet, oboe, bassoon, and saxophone. There are two main types of woodwind instruments: flutes and reed instruments (otherwise called reed pipes). The main distinction between these instruments and other ...
Woodwind section. The woodwind section, which consists of woodwind instruments, is one of the main sections of an orchestra or concert band. Woodwind sections contain instruments given Hornbostel-Sachs classifications of 421 (edge-blown aerophones, commonly known as flutes) and 422 (reed aerophones), but exclude 423 (brass instruments, which ...
The Prague Wind Quintet, c. 1931. A wind quintet, also known as a woodwind quintet, is a group of five wind players (most commonly flute, oboe, clarinet, French horn and bassoon). Unlike the string quartet (of 4 string instruments) with its homogeneous blend of sound color, the instruments in a wind quintet differ from each other considerably ...
A single-reed instrument is a woodwind instrument that uses only one reed to produce sound. The very earliest single-reed instruments were documented in ancient Egypt, as well as the Middle East, Greece, and the Roman Empire. [1] [page needed] The earliest types of single-reed instruments used idioglottal reeds, where the vibrating reed is a ...
Crumhorn. The crumhorn is a double reed instrument of the woodwind family, most commonly used during the Renaissance period. In modern times, particularly since the 1960s, there has been a revival of interest in early music, and crumhorns are being played again. It was also spelled krummhorn, krumhorn, krum horn, [1] and cremorne.
Shawm. The shawm (/ ʃɔːm /) is a conical bore, double-reed woodwind instrument made in Europe from the 12th century to the present day. It achieved its peak of popularity during the medieval and Renaissance periods, after which it was gradually eclipsed by the oboe family of descendant instruments in classical music.