...trombonists of all ability levels, including professional performers and teachers as well as amateurs and enthusiasts. The ITA Journal is a quarterly publication mailed to all members (or it can be read online!), and contains both scholarly and popular articles, in addition to sheet music and recording reviews, recital programs, and more. The International Trombone Festival, an annual event sponsored by the ITA, brings together trombonists from all over the world for concerts, master classes, exhibits, and competitions. International Tuba-Euphonium Association Formerly known as the Tubists Universal Brotherhood Association (TUBA), the ITEA "is a worldwide organization of musicians whose purpose is to maintain a liason among those who take a significant interest in the instruments of the tuba and euphonium family - their development, literature, pedagogy, and performance." This site offers membership information, information on the International Tuba-Euphonium Conference, information about the ITEA Journal (which also can now be read online!), and a few announcements. The Online Trombone Journal The OTJ features articles, reviews, job and audition announcements, classified ads, and other resources useful to trombonists. Phillip M. Hash Calvin College Grand Rapids, Michigan Abstract This article reviews literature related to pullout...
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...Arturo Trejo Arturo Trejo, aka “Turtle”, was born a Taurus on April 26, 1998. He was born in Long Beach, California, but moved to Compton by the age of 3. Arturo has many hobbies he enjoys spending his time doing, a loving and supportive family, and goals he hopes to accomplish before the end of his life. Arturo’s hobbies are a very important part of his life. First of all, he enjoys playing instruments. A couple of his favorites to play include the Trumpet and the Euphonium. He likes the Trumpet because of its strong, in your face sound but he likes the Euphonium for its melodic and harmonious sound. Secondly, along with his passion for music, he loves listening to it. His most-listened-to genres are Reggae and The Golden Oldies. His favorite musician of Reggae is Bob Marley for his message of love and peace while his favorite of Golden Oldies is Smokey Robinson because of his emotional and romantic way of making music. Lastly and most importantly, he finds joy in helping other people. He wishes to help others through any of their external stresses along with interpersonal struggles. He does this because he knows what it is like to not have anybody around to help....
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...The performance I went to at Arts Fest was the Alliance Brass Quintet. I was able to get three of their names. Their French horn player, Kelly Langeveir, started on the trumpet, and switched to the French horn so that she could be in a higher chair placement. Mary Linguini, who was a trumpet player, grew up in Chicago, and started trumpet in 4th grade. William, who played the euphonium was born in Louisiana, and teaches music as a private lesson teacher. There was one more man, who was large, and another woman, who both did not introduce themselves. All of their music sounded amazing, and it was all in sync. The combination of the trombone, trumpets, euphonium, and French horn gave a connected and grand feel to the music. One of the most important things that I learned from the performance was how nice the brass instruments could sound. I don’t usually hear instruments sound that nice, like in our band it is not usually tuned and you hear lots of imperfections. The way they played it sounded perfect. Another thing I learned was that German Opera music sound’s melodious and pleasant, not loud and ear-shattering like I thought it would be when they announced it. I didn’t even know you could play opera on instruments, I thought it was something you did with your voice, and singing. I also learned that a coronet is a song which sounds very royal, it sounded as if I was walking in a castle, at a ball or a formal party. I had many favorite parts to this performance. Overall, I...
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...different lengths and thickness are then attached to the instrument and stretched to a specific length in order to sound the proper pitch. Strings are typically made of synthetic materials, sheep gut or metal, depending on the player’s preference. The Woodwind Family The woodwind section is made up of piccolos, flutes, oboes, English horns, clarinets, E-flat clarinets, bass clarinets, bassoons and contrabassoons. The name “woodwind” is sometimes misleading as about half the woodwind section is made of some sort of metal, for example, flutes are made of silver or gold, piccolos are sometimes made of silver and saxophones are made of brass. The Brass Family The brass family is composed of trumpets, French horns, trombones, baritones, euphoniums and tubas/sousaphones. Brass instruments are made of brass tubes that flare out into a bell at one end of the instrument. The bell, like a megaphone, helps to amplify the sound of the instrument, which helps make brass instruments the loudest of all the orchestral instruments. To make a sound on a brass instrument, you have to put your lips together and make a “buzz” sound into a metal mouthpiece. Percussion Percussion consists of drums (snare, bass, tympani, bongo, tom-toms, etc.), xylophones, marimbas, tubular bells, cymbals, maracas, glockenspiels, gongs and castanets. The term Percussion means "the hitting of one body against another," instruments in the percussion section are played by being hit, shaken or scraped. Percussion...
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...Where: Conservatory Wind Ensemble Whitman Theater @ Brooklyn College When: Wednesday Oct 26, 2011 @ 7pm On wednesday during my trip to this music ensemble at Brooklyn college there were several performed pieces by several composers such as David Maslanka. Percy Grainger, Eric Whitacre, Gustav Holst, Vincent Persichetti, and Clifton Williams. All of the above artist were from the romantic era. the pieces that were played in order of the listed composers were Mother Earth, Children's March, October, Suite No. 2 in F major, Pageant, and Symphonic Dance No.3 "Fiesta". Mother Earth started very energetic loud and exciting a very good way to start a show. Children's March was very catchy and reptile but still a lot of energy and rhythm in this piece. October was more of a steady laid back piece. Many solo players and i noticed it wasn't as loud as the previous two. Suite No 2.in F major was a four movement piece. first movement was a March i found this to be a delightful. second movement was a song without words called i"ll love my love this was more of a slow calm piece it was also higher pitched instrument soloists. the third movement titled Song of the Blacksmith sounded as if someone was working on a railroader clinging on something. the last movement titled Fantasia on the "Dargason" was the best one to me out of the four movements a lot of energy put into this piece toward the end thee was a highest to lowest range instrument type duet. Pagent was very smooth and sweet very...
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...designs, while his father continued to make conventional instruments to bring money into the household. Adolphe's first important invention was an improvement of the bass clarinet design, which he patented at the age of 24. Sax relocated permanently to Paris in 1841 and began working on a new set of instruments exhibited there in 1844. These were valved bugles, and although he had not invented the instrument itself, his examples were so much more successful than those of his rivals that they became known as saxhorns. They range in approximately seven different sizes, and paved the path to the creation of the flugelhorn. Today, saxhorns are sometimes used in concert bands and orchestras. The saxhorn also laid the groundwork for the modern euphonium. Sax also developed the saxotromba family, valved brass instruments with narrower bore than the saxhorns, in 1845, though they survived only briefly.[2] Saxhorn instruments spread rapidly throughout the world. The...
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...When I checking for list of concerts, I decided choose Broadway Night in Baldwin in the Duke University. Obviously, it is an excellent concert. The concert taking place in the Baldwin Auditorium. This is an interesting concert about Broadway, and they choose several famous music drama. There are students, teachers, and normal audience come here to watching their concert. They look like really enjoy the concert, and they give a big round of applause include me. In the end the concert, we enjoyed the concert so much that the clapping continued for long time. This is a wind symphony. It includes flute, oboe, clarinet, bass clarinet, bassoon, saxophone alto, saxophone tenor, saxophone baritone, horn, trumpet, trombone, euphonium, tuba, paint, string bass, and percussion. Also, the concert all of list are modern music....
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...STRING INSTRUMENTS * Violin The violin is a string instrument, usually with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is the smallest, highest-pitched member of the violin family of string instruments, which also includes the viola, cello and doublebass. The violin is sometimes informally called a fiddle, regardless of the type of music played on it. The word violin comes from the Medieval Latin word vitula, meaning stringed instrument; this word is also believed to be the source of the Germanic "fiddle". The violin, while it has ancient origins, acquired most of its modern characteristics in 16th-century Italy, with some further modifications occurring in the 18th and 19th centuries. Violinists and collectors particularly prize the instruments made by the Gasparo da Salò, Giovanni Paolo Maggini, Stradivari, Guarneri and Amati families from the 16th to the 18th century in Brescia and Cremona and by Jacob Stainer in Austria. Great numbers of instruments have come from the hands of "lesser" makers, as well as still greater numbers of mass-produced commercial "trade violins" coming from cottage industries in places such as Saxony, Bohemia, and Mirecourt. Many of these trade instruments were formerly sold by Sears, Roebuck and Co. and other mass merchandisers. A person who makes or repairs violins is called a luthier. The parts of a violin are usually made from different types of wood (although electric violins may not be made of wood at all, since their sound may not...
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...Bob Jones University had a symphonic wind band that I attended on Friday, February 12, 2016 at 7:00 P.M. The name of the woodwind ensemble was European Travelogue which was of moderate size, and was conducted by Dan Turner. The group of performers collectively played a grand total of 18 different instruments which included the following: Piccolo, Flute, Oboe, English horn, B-Flat Clarinet, Bass Clarinet, Bassoon, Alto Saxophone, Tenor Saxophone, Baritone Saxophone, Horn, Trumpet, Trombone, Euphonium, Tuba, Percussion, Timpani, and a Harp. The woodwind ensemble featured a series of five pieces, all of which were divided by their country of origin. The first piece of the ensemble was focused on English works, and had three movements that were...
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...three questions. What is the relationship between the practice strategies that students employ, their idea of what their strategies actually were, and how much their scores improved? What were the common trends among all of the students in the study? What is the relationship between the scores based on how they practiced? To answer these questions, the authors studied 65 eighth-graders from five different middle schools. These schools were public, private, rural, suburban, and urban. 33 students were girls and 32 students were boys. 9 played flute, 1 played oboe, 2 played bassoon, 11 played clarinet, 6 played alto saxophone, 3 played tenor saxophone, 2 played baritone saxophone, 8 played trumpet, 4 played horn, 9 played trombone, 4 played euphonium, 1 played tuba, and 1 played bells. To answer the three questions, each student was given the same 24 measure passage in 2/4. The students had to sight-read the passage and they were scored on the performance. Then the students were given a five minute practice session to practice the passage in any way they wanted to. The researcher noted all methods that each students employed to practice. Last, the students performed the passage again and were graded. To grade the performance, the researchers used the Woodwind and Brass Solo Evaluation Form. This form was originally used to evaluate high school students’ All-State auditions. Although the form has three portions, solo, scales, and sight-reading, only the solo portion was used for the...
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...and glory behind the other neighboring planets. “As a rule I only study things that suggest music to me… Recently the character of each planet suggested lots to me” (Holst, 1914). Mars Mars, the Bringer of War is named after Mars, the Roman god of war. Originally written to be allegro, it makes sense that this is one of the most aggressive movements in the suite. Mars is famous for its sinister yet majestic feel in a 5/4 time signature. The quietness in the beginning of the movement can be described as the dawn before the battle. Tensions are high, lives are at stake. Then, the glorious and fierce brass fanfares burst through the silence. One can almost see the chariots, soldiers, and swords clashing for dominance and victory. The euphonium has a melodic solo in Mars, depicting the thinking of a plan for war, which adds a sense of both anticipation and anxiousness. Not only was this the most famous movement out of the whole suite, conductor John Williams choose to feature and adapt the Mars movement into Star Wars during the Imperial March. Venus Venus, the Bringer of Peace, written in adagio, was the second movement in the suite. Venus is meant to portray peace, hence the title Bringer of Peace. In Roman mythology, Venus was known as the goddess of sex, love, beauty, and fertility (Garcia, 2013). Holst wanted this movement to be a huge contrast from Mars. Venus’ movement utilizes French horns in the intro, a warm oboe solo, and even uses harp to give a feeling of airiness...
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...Mitchell Burton, Ken Jarrett HUM 2510 AB Professor Gigler December 6, 2012 Brass Instruments The brass family has a variety of instruments that have the ability to cover a wide range of sounds. Brass instruments have changed greatly since the beginning of time. Throughout history, the manufacturing of brass instruments has become more complex by using different materials, dimensions, and including valves. Compositions have been composed to show off the capabilities of brass instruments through concertos and solos. With that being said, famous musicians have created a reputation for their musical talents by playing instruments in the brass family. The sacbut and piccolo trumpet are two instruments included in the brass family and will be focused on due to their unique qualities. The brass family is a unique group of instruments that has helped change the compositions of music throughout history. History of Brass Instruments Before the history of brass can be described, people have to understand what a brass instrument entails, “a brass instrument is defined as an “aerophone,” which means it is an instrument where the musician must blow air into the instrument. The musician produces the tone by buzzing the lips into what is generally a cup-shaped mouthpiece. It doesn’t mean that the instrument is necessarily made of brass, since instruments that are made of other metals, wood, horn, or even animal bone are included in the family of brass instruments.” (Wilken)...
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...with you. A woodwind instrument is an instrument in which sound is produced by blowing against an edge or by a vibrating with air a thin piece of wood known as a reed. Most of these instruments were originally made of wood, but some such as the saxophone and some flutes are now made of other materials. The examples of the woodwind instruments are flute, saxophone, clarinets, oboe and bassoon. Meanwhile a brass instrument is a musical instrument whose tone is produced by vibration of the lips as the player blows into a tubular resonator. They are also called labrosones, literally meaning "lip-vibrated instruments" (A lackadaisical Lexicon for Laggard Logophiles). The examples of brass instruments are French horn, trumpets, trombone, euphonium, and also tuba. Woodwind and brass instruments are also...
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...2013B Carefully read the following excerpt from the short story “Mammita’s Garden Cove” by Cyril Dabydeen. Then write a well-organized essay in which you analyze how Dabydeen uses literary techniques to convey Max’s complex attitudes toward place. ‘Where d’you come from?’ Max was used to the question; used to being told no as well. He walked away, feet kicking hard ground, telling himself that Line he must persevere. More than anything else he knew 5 he must find a job before long. In a way being unemployed made him feel prepared for hell itself even though he knew too that somewhere there was a sweet heaven waiting for him. How couldn’t it be? After all he was in Canada. He wanted to laugh all of 10 He continued walking along, thoughts drifting back to the far-gone past. Was it that far-gone? He wasn’t sure . . . yet his thoughts kept going back, to the time he was on the island and how he used to dream about 15 being in Canada, of starting an entirely new life. He remembered those dreams clearly now; remembered too thinking of marrying some sweet island-woman with whom he’d share his life, of having children and later buying a house. Maybe someday he’d even own 20 a cottage on the edge of the city. He wasn’t too sure where one built a cottage, but there had to be a cottage. He’d then be in the middle class; life would be different from the hand-to-mouth existence he was used to. 25 His heels pressed into the asphalt, walking on. And slowly he...
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...2013B Carefully read the following excerpt from the short story “Mammita’s Garden Cove” by Cyril Dabydeen. Then write a well-organized essay in which you analyze how Dabydeen uses literary techniques to convey Max’s complex attitudes toward place. ‘Where d’you come from?’ Max was used to the question; used to being told no as well. He walked away, feet kicking hard ground, telling himself that Line he must persevere. More than anything else he knew 5 he must find a job before long. In a way being unemployed made him feel prepared for hell itself even though he knew too that somewhere there was a sweet heaven waiting for him. How couldn’t it be? After all he was in Canada. He wanted to laugh all of 10 He continued walking along, thoughts drifting back to the far-gone past. Was it that far-gone? He wasn’t sure . . . yet his thoughts kept going back, to the time he was on the island and how he used to dream about 15 being in Canada, of starting an entirely new life. He remembered those dreams clearly now; remembered too thinking of marrying some sweet island-woman with whom he’d share his life, of having children and later buying a house. Maybe someday he’d even own 20 a cottage on the edge of the city. He wasn’t too sure where one built a cottage, but there had to be a cottage. He’d then be in the middle class; life would be different from the hand-to-mouth existence he was used to. 25 His heels pressed into the asphalt, walking on. And slowly he...
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