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  2. Soprano saxophone - Wikipedia

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    The soprano saxophone is also sometimes confused with the B ♭ clarinet. The clarinet has a distinctly different timbre, is usually much quieter, can play an augmented fourth lower and is commonly played as much as a fifth higher (though the soprano saxophone can also be played this high with altissimo, it is uncommon for a player to do so ...

  3. Saxophone - Wikipedia

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    The saxophone (often referred to colloquially as the sax) is a type of single-reed woodwind instrument with a conical body, usually made of brass.As with all single-reed instruments, sound is produced when a reed on a mouthpiece vibrates to produce a sound wave inside the instrument's body.

  4. Glossary of music terminology - Wikipedia

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    Meaning respectively "measured song" or "figured song". Originally used by medieval music theorists, it refers to polyphonic song with exactly measured notes and is used in contrast to cantus planus. [3] [4] capo 1. capo (short for capotasto: "nut") : A key-changing device for stringed instruments (e.g. guitars and banjos)

  5. C soprano saxophone - Wikipedia

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    The C soprano saxophone is a member of the saxophone family, invented in 1846. It closely resembles the more common B ♭ soprano saxophone but is pitched a whole step higher. Unlike most other saxophones, it is not a transposing instrument , a quality it shares with the C melody (also called C tenor) saxophone .

  6. Soprano - Wikipedia

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    A soprano (Italian pronunciation: [soˈpraːno]) is a type of classical singing voice and it has the highest vocal range of all voice types.The soprano's vocal range (using scientific pitch notation) is from approximately middle C (C 4) = 261 Hz to "high C” (C 6) = 2093 Hz in choral music.

  7. Fantasia for saxophone, three horns, and strings - Wikipedia

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    Szpilman, however, did not own a soprano saxophone, which was the instrument specified by Villa-Lobos, and, like Mule, found the highest notes too risky. Consequently, the composer decided to transpose the piece a tone lower, to E ♭ , and to permit the tenor saxophone as an alternative to the soprano. [ 3 ]

  8. Saxophone technique - Wikipedia

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    A photo of jazz saxophonist Charlie Parker playing the saxophone. Note his embouchure and posture. Saxophone embouchure is the position of the facial muscles and shaping of the lips to the mouthpiece when playing a saxophone.

  9. Jimmy Crack Corn - Wikipedia

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    The 1847 version of the song published in London singularly has the lyrics "Jim Crack com '", which could refer to a poor Southern cracker [46] (presumably an overseer or new owner) or a minced oath for Jesus Christ (thus referencing indifference at the Judgment Day); the same version explicitly makes the fly's name a wordplay on the earlier ...