How To Use Contrabass In A Sentence
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Among the collection's highlights are the double slide contrabass trombone which inspired Wagner to write for the instrument in his Ring Cycle, a crystal glass flute and an early euphonium.
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For military purposes, this and the contrabass -- the helicon -- are circular.
Scientific American Supplement No. 819, September 12, 1891
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The compositions on his six CDs feature sitar, flute, clarinet, soprano sax, violin viola, violoncello, contrabass, percussion and electronic devices as well as solo guitar.
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The work is more of a textural tone poem - and a rather heavy-handed one at that - spending most of its time in a noisy netherworld of guitars, electronics, and occasional contrabass saxophone.
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The complete spectrum of dynamically changing information of the sun, from the lower subvisible frequencies, through the intermediary visible frequencies, to the higher supravisible frequencies, can be thought of as ranging from contrabasses (containing subaural frequencies), through violins, to piccolos (containing supra-aural frequencies), playing together full-time in a 24/7 orchestra.
The G.O.D. Experiments
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It is not so cheerful, perhaps, as its predecessor in the same key; the heavy basses twanging in tenths like a contrabasso are intentionally monotone in effect.
Old Fogy His Musical Opinions and Grotesques
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Fri 3/23, 12: 10 PM, contrabassoonist Susan Migro. 312-787-2729, ext.
Chicago Reader
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The performer, who plays contrabass, remembers the sensational popularity of the song.
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The work is more of a textural tone poem - and a rather heavy-handed one at that - spending most of its time in a noisy netherworld of guitars, electronics, and occasional contrabass saxophone.
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The tutti strangeness is that of an orchestra without violas and cellos, but in which double basses, contrabassoon and piccolos are prominent.
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For example, can the contrabassoon part be played up an octave?
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Gotta love when the contrabassoonist gets the spotlight.
Times Record News Stories
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The musician, an Estonian-born musician, specialized in the contrabass.
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The compass and extent of sound given by our harps is very considerably higher than the notes produced by your violins, and deeper than the lowest notes given by your contrabassi.
Another World Fragments from the Star City of Montalluyah
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No more toilet humor: NSO contrabassoonist trades in 'flatulent' instrument for sweeter contraforte
Redskins Insider Podcast -- The Washington Post
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Of other sizes, the commonest is the contrabassoon.
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One is a real contrabass balalaika, I brought it from Russia.
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Lewis Lipnick, the contrabassoonist of the NSO, plays Schulhoff's piece on the contrabassoon, the instrument he has been playing for more than 40 years:
Audio: The contrabassoon vs. contraforte
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No more toilet humor: NSO contrabassoonist trades in 'flatulent' instrument for sweeter contraforte
Redskins Insider Podcast -- The Washington Post
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These horns are often found in their lowest manifestation, with Havard Lund playing bass clarinet and Nils Jansen alternating between contrabass clarinet and bass saxophone.
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I played contrabass clarinet in the school Concert Band, guitar in the Jazz Big Band, percussion in the school orchestra and I began to write music.
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He is represented, as is well known, seated in the group of musicians in the centre, and playing the contrabasso.
Giorgione
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Gustafsson plays contrabass saxophone, but his contribution is also too brief, though staggering enough when it does enter the fray.
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That usually refers to works that go to the extremes of the orchestra, beyond the meat-and-potatoes of strings and winds and brass: a stroke of harp, a shimmer of cymbal, the mellow birdcall of an oboe d'amore or the flatulence of a contrabassoon.
Hans Graf conducts Jean-Yves Thibaudet, National Symphony in Ravel, Debussy
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Parts are also included in the set for E flat alto clarinet, B flat contrabass clarinet, and two flugelhorns, all of which are ad lib.
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His booming contrabasso voice makes middle-aged ladies squeal in delight and his pithy, homily-laden retorts are greeted with roars of approval.
Lebed's On The March Again
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At first hearing, the similarities between the contraforte and the contrabassoon are evident: both instruments hang out in the dark, lowest register of the double-reed universe.
Audio: The contrabassoon vs. contraforte
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Heckelphone, ondes-martenot, tubax, contrabassoon, serpent, octobasse, flugelhorn, euphonium are examples of musical instruments whose sex appeal does not live up to their exotic sounding names.
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Like the flute, there was a complete family of oboes in the sixteenth and early in the seventeenth century; the little schalmey, the discant schalmey, from which the present oboe is derived; the alto, tenor, pommer, and bass pommers, and the double quint or contrabass pommer.
Scientific American Supplement No. 819, September 12, 1891
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A Korean War veteran who emerged from the 1960s Chicago scene boosted by the activist collective Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians, Mr. Braxton made important albums focused on saxophone improvisation and sonic experiments with every reed instrument available, from sopranino to the contrabass saxophone.
A Jazztronaut, Exploring the Spaces in Music
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Mike SvobodaAt first this seemed like somewhat of a hollow proposition, but as the piece went on it grew progressively more hypnotic and seductive as it developed extended solo and duet combinations between Svoboda and Vicki Ray on the prepared piano, Aashish Khan on the sarode, Rachel Rudich on the shakuhachi, Vinny Golia on the contrabass flute and Swapan Chaudhuri on the tabla.
I, trombonist
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One is a real contrabass balalaika, I brought it from Russia.
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contrabass or double-bass clarinet
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A low-pitched member of a family of instruments, with a range lower than tenor and higher than contrabass or double bass.
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Finally, an old hound which appeared to be gifted with a peculiarly robust temperament kept supplying the part of contrabasso, so that his growls resembled the rumbling of a bass singer when a chorus is in full cry, and the tenors are rising on tiptoe in their efforts to compass a particularly high note, and the whole body of choristers are wagging their heads before approaching a climax, and this contrabasso alone is tucking his bearded chin into his collar, and sinking almost to a squatting posture on the floor, in order to produce a note which shall cause the windows to shiver and their panes to crack.
Dead Souls
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Basses and even occasionally contrabasses are also made for flute bands.
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It may seem difficult, if not impossibly perverse, to justify the highest ranking for a record of solo contrabass improvisations.
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In spite of an interminable row of contrabassi, with which a conductor usually coquettes at musical festivals, his performance was so expressionless and inane that I turned away in disgust as from an alarming and repulsive problem, and desisted from all attempts to explain the impassable gulf which, as I again perceived, yawned between my own vivid and imaginative conception of this work and the only living presentations of it which I had ever heard.
My Life — Volume 1
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It begins with electronic sounds of garbled voices and interference from static-laden radio channels, and gradually introduces gentle guitar strumming, stately piano chords, warm contrabass, and dreamy steel guitar.
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The symphonic repertoire calls for the basic 2 oboes and cor anglais, just as it does two flutes and piccolo, two clarinets and bass clarinet, two bassoons and contrabassoon.
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Heckelphone, ondes-martenot, tubax, contrabassoon, serpent, octobasse, flugelhorn, euphonium are examples of musical instruments whose sex appeal does not live up to their exotic sounding names.
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Four bassoons and a contrabassoon play together - sandwiched between two huge crescendos on timpani and bass drum.
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These horns are often found in their lowest manifestation, with Havard Lund playing bass clarinet and Nils Jansen alternating between contrabass clarinet and bass saxophone.
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Among the collection's highlights are the double slide contrabass trombone which inspired Wagner to write for the instrument in his Ring Cycle, a crystal glass flute and an early euphonium.
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His primary instruments are the contrabass, voice, piano, electronics, and various percussive devices.
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E flat to the contra-bass in B flat; and to replace the contra-bassoon in the orchestra there is a lower contrabass sarrusophone made in C, the compass of which is from the double bass octave B flat to the higher G in the bass clef.
Scientific American Supplement No. 819, September 12, 1891
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Parts are also included in the set for E flat alto clarinet, B flat contrabass clarinet, and two flugelhorns, all of which are ad lib.
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The tutti strangeness is that of an orchestra without violas and cellos, but in which double basses, contrabassoon and piccolos are prominent.
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The tunes feature contrabass balalaika, domra, accordion and harpeleik, among many others.
Expecting Rain
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Who would dream of finding a pianoforte manufactory in such a lost corner of the hills, or a maker of violins and contrabassi a little way lower down at Voltago?
Untrodden Peaks and Unfrequented Valleys
