MUSIC 1A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Bass Flute, Bass Clarinet, Bass Trumpet
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Loud and soft: volume and dynamics: dynamics: level of loudness/softness in music. Italian indications used (piano, forte: dynamics become increasingly important in this time period; the idea of soft and loud instruments are no longer a very important distinction as instrument construction changes. Musical instruments: timbre, timbre or tone colour: distinctive sound characteristics of instruments and voices. Bowed and plucked: bowed (rosin, violin ,viola, violoncello (cello), double bass. Plucked string instruments: mandolin, lute, harpsichord: harp, pedals, arpeggio, guitar, fretted fingerboard. The viola de gamba (viol), a 6-stringed bowed instrument of the. Renaissance and baroque eras, has returned to concert performance (as part of the revival of early music performance practice) In earlier times, all made of wood; sound produced by setting the air in a tube in motion by blowing. Flute, piccolo, alto flute, and bass flute: blowing across an open hole. Recorder, the flute of the renaissance and baroque periods; blowing into one end.
