Yichang stringed and woodwind instrumental music is unique among all the folk instrumental music in Hubei Province. It takes strings and bamboos as main instruments to perform. It is a variety of ...
Orchestras began tuning to the oboe, in part, because its sound was more penetrating in a performance setting than gut strings. There were also fewer oboes than violins, and in the earliest orchestras ...
The word “symphony” is ultimately from Greek “symphonia,” concord of sounds, harmony, a meld of “syn-,” together (as in synchronize, synthesis) and “phōnẽ,” sound (as in phonetics, telephone). The ...
Jiangnan sizhu performers from Taicang, a county-level city of Suzhou, Jiangsu province play at a special show for the 2010 Shanghai World Expo. [Photo by Zhang Da/chinanews.com] Jiangnan sizhu is a ...
Woodwind quintets have never had the glamour of other small groups. Mozart, Brahms, and Beethoven didn't write much for that combination of instruments. But members of the Borealis Woodwind Quintet ...
HARBERT — The School of American Music presents a Michigan City Chamber Music Festival (MCCMF) concert for children titled “Wooden Boxes and Pipes!” at 3 p.m. Sunday, March 16 at the Episcopal Church ...
He fixes, cleans and tunes all the brass and woodwind instruments used by OPS. He estimates that’s roughly 3,000 instruments, from tiny piccolos to gleaming saxophones, spread out across the district.
Did you know the word ‘guitar’ comes from Arabic? Or that bagpipes are played in the Middle East as well as Scotland? Here are some of the musical instruments you may not have known from the Orient… ...
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