How To Use Double-bass In A Sentence
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As a musician, he could swap between piano, double-bass and sousaphone; his jazzband held a residency for some years at the Ritz Hotel.
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The instrumental ensemble is comprised of flute, two oboes, two clarinets, two bassoons, two French horns, and a double-bass.
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It's got some double-bass, some mandolin, a steel-stringed acoustic guitar, a birdie chirping, and a little drummer boy towards the end.
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Not knowing which of them wrote what, I can only report that the pit contained two cellos, one double-bass, solo woodwind, brass and timpani.
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Obviously when people come into the church and they see a double-bass and a drummer and piano player, it has that look of being a jazz combo right from the start.
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Byron Wallen, vibist Jim Hart, double-bassist Karl Rashid Abel and drummer Graham Godfrey, he made fine contemporary work of Modal, Abstract and other Harriott lines.
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Today on BoingBoing Gadgets, we reviewed a 3G USB modem that works great on Macs and high-end canine gear; listened to The Harmonium; drank a strictly-conforming European pint; watched Belkin try to bring novelty to the world of mouse pads; built an ornithopter and a difference engine; guzzled yoghurt with a specially-shaped spoon; and listened to a beautiful boombox in a double-bass fiddle.
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Saxophones, accordions, guitars, clarinets, double-bass, and percussion blend with an extensive electronic array of clicks, hiss, static, and sampled voices.
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It consists of a bass line only, which is to be played on instruments such as the cello, viola de gamba, double-bass or bassoon.
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As for drummer Fredrik Sandsten, suffice it to say he took the Moon references to another level with a much bigger kit, flying around the tom-toms and engaging in fierce double-bass song finales.
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There are no cellos, a disproportionately large number of double-basses, and big brass and wind sections but no oboes and bassoons.
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There are no cellos, a disproportionately large number of double-basses, and big brass and wind sections but no oboes and bassoons.
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It consists of a bass line only, which is to be played on instruments such as the cello, viola de gamba, double-bass or bassoon.
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The bows of the cellos, violins and double-basses seem to caress your heart strings and not those of their instruments.
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A beautiful terzetto describes with inimitable grace the gently sloping hills covered with their verdure, the leaping of the fountain into the light, and the flights of birds, and a bass solo in sonorous manner takes up the swimming fish, closing with "the upheaval of Leviathan from the deep," who disports himself among the double-basses.
The Standard Oratorios Their Stories, Their Music, And Their Composers
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Portico Quartet found the young audience that put them on the 2008 Mercury prize shortlist through the unique sound they invented as buskers – hooky and danceable systems music coloured by the melodic chime of the tuned hang drum, with jazzy textures furnished by a double-bass and a sax.
Portico Quartet: Portico Quartet – review
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This instrument, designed by Shankar and built by Ken Parker, covers the entire orchestral range, including double-bass, cello, viola and violin.
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‘The music is mostly traditional jazz, Dixieland and mainstream jazz,’ said Mr Frank, a double-bass player who took to the stage himself with his Dixieland All Stars.
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As for the drummer, suffice it to say he took it to another level with a much bigger kit, flying around the tom-toms and engaging in fierce double-bass song finales.
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contrabass or double-bass clarinet
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It is made of brass and exists in several sizes, the only one ever used in the orchestra being the double-bass _sarrusophone_, which has approximately the same range as the double-bassoon and is sometimes (but rarely) made use of in the orchestra instead of the latter instrument.
Music Notation and Terminology
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There are no cellos, a disproportionately large number of double-basses, and big brass and wind sections but no oboes and bassoons.
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The bows of the cellos, violins and double-basses seem to caress your heart strings and not those of their instruments.
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The _bass tuba_ is a member of the saxhorn family [42] and supplies the lowest part of the brass choir, as the double-bass does in the string choir.
Music Notation and Terminology
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Fry's music is replete with opportunities for first-chair musicians, even down to the double-bassist, to show their wares, and the Scottish musicians respond without condescension.
