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Banda is a subgenre of regional Mexican music and type of ensemble in which wind (mostly brass) and percussion instruments are performed. The history of banda music in Mexico dates from the middle of the 19th century with the arrival of piston brass instruments, when community musicians tried to imitate military bands. The first bandas were ...
The word "trombone" derives from Italian tromba (trumpet) and -one (a suffix meaning "large"), so the name means "large trumpet". The trombone has a predominantly cylindrical bore like the trumpet, in contrast to the more conical brass instruments like the cornet, the flugelhorn, the baritone, and the euphonium.
A maraca (pronunciation ⓘ), sometimes called shaker or chac-chac, [1] is a rattle which appears in many genres of Caribbean and Latin music.It is shaken by a handle and usually played as part of a pair.
The valve trombone emerged concurrently with the invention of valves in the early 19th century. Most early instruments retained the shape and form of the slide trombone, employing three valves with the tubing arranged in place of the slide; others used the new valve mechanism as an opportunity to explore different configurations while retaining the overall cylindrical bore and bell profile.
As Spanish is commonly spoken in Spain and most of Latin America, music from both regions have been able to crossover with each other. [2] According to the Sociedad General de Autores y Editores (SGAE), Spain is the largest Latino music market in the world. [3] As a result, the Latin music industry encompasses Spanish-language music from Spain.
The trombone is a musical instrument from the brass instrument family. Trombone's first premiere in jazz was with Dixieland jazz as a supporting role within the Dixie Group. This role later grew into the spotlight as players such as J.J. Johnson and Jack Teagarden began to experiment more with the instrument, finding that it can fill in roles ...
Because of the limited range, music for crumhorns is usually played by a group of instruments of different sizes and hence at different pitches. Such a group is known as a consort of crumhorns. Crumhorns are built in imitation of the vocal quartet with soprano, alto, tenor and bass as a family, as was true of most instruments of the Renaissance.
The instrument tapers in thickness, until at the top it is about 1.3 centimetres (0.51 in) wide. [13] The instruments were mainly treble cornetts, [26] tuned to the same range as the curved treble cornett, G 3 to A 5. [27] The others found in museums are soprano cornetts, also tuned like curved instruments to E 4 to E 6. [27] [26]