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| ..Connexions
- Catherine Schmidt-Jones - "Here are
some basic guidelines for musicians who would like to try writing or rewriting
a piece of music for a particular set of instruments" |
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| ..Britannica
Online - "A selection of articles discussing this
topic." |
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| ..MIDI
Manufacturers Assn - "Most film and TV scores,
as well as popular recorded music is written and performed using electronic
keyboards and other MIDI-equipped musical instruments. (Thanks to advances
in digital sampling and synthesis technologies, the orchestra playing behind
that big-screen block buster is more likely to be the product of MIDI than
a real orchestra with dozens of acoustic instruments" |
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| ..Instrumentation
- All instruments belong to FAMILIES. Click on the instrument
name to hear its sound |
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Encyclopedia - music glossary |
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| ..Chico
- "A sampler of some of the world's most interesting musical
instruments " |
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| .."In
music , timbre (pronounced /?tam-b?r'/ , t?m.b?r like timber , or ?tæm(br
? ) , from Fr. timbre t??b? ) is the quality of a musical note or sound
that distinguishes different types of sound production, such as voices
or musical instruments" |
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| .."Pitched
musical instruments are usually based on a harmonic oscillator such as
a string or a column of air. Both can and do oscillate at numerous frequencies
simultaneously. These oscillations are called 'standing waves' as the wave
in the string or air column oscillates to and fro but does not travel along
it. Interaction with the surrounding air causes sound waves - travelling
waves which allow us to hear the instrument. Because of the self-filtering
nature of resonance, these frequencies are mostly limited to integer multiples,
or harmonics, of the lowest possible frequency, and such multiples form
the harmonic series" |
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| .."In
music, the range of a musical instrument is the distance from the lowest
to the highest pitch it can play. For a singing voice, this is known as
vocal range. The range of a musical part is the distance between its lowest
and highest note. The duration range is the difference between the shortest
and longest rhythm used. Dynamic range is the difference between the quietest
and loudest volume of an instrument, part or piece of music." |
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| .."The
most commonly used system in use in the west today divides instruments
into string instruments, wind instruments and percussion instruments. However
other ones have been devised, and some cultures also use different schemes." |
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| .."A
string instrument (or stringed instrument) is a musical instrument that
produces sound by means of vibrating strings. In the Hornbostel-Sachs scheme
of musical instrument classification, used in organology, they are called
chordophones. The most common string instruments in the string family are
violin, cello, viola double bass, guitar, and harp." |
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| .."A
wind instrument is a musical instrument that contains some type of resonator
(usually a tube), in which a column of air is set into vibration by the
player blowing into (or over) a mouthpiece set at the end of the resonator.
The pitch of the vibration is determined by the length of the tube and
by manual modifications of the effective length of the vibrating column
of air." |
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| .."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" " |
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keyboard instrument is any musical instrument played using a musical keyboard.
The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments
include various types of organs as well as other mechanical, electromechanical
and electronic instruments. In common language, it is mostly used to refer
to keyboard-style synthesizers." |
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percussion instrument is any object which produces a sound by being hit
with an implement, shaken, rubbed, scraped, or by any other action which
sets the object into vibration. The term usually applies to an object used
in a rhythmic context or with musical intent." |
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| .."A
reed is a thin strip of material which vibrates to produce a sound on a
musical instrument. The reeds of woodwind instruments are made from Arundo
donax or synthetic material; tuned reeds (as in harmonicas and accordions)
are made of metal or synthetics." |
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Nature of a Sound Wave - Sound Properties and Their Perception
- Behavior of Sound Waves - Resonance and Standing Waves
- Musical Instruments - Vocal
Sound Production |
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- Production of Sound - Systems of Classification
- Idiophones - Membranophones - Aerophones
- Flutes - Single & Double Reeds - Free
Reeds and Other Instruments - Lip-Vibrated Instruments
- Chordophones - Zithers - Keyboard Chordophones
- Harps and Lyres - Plucked and Bowed Lutes -
Electrophones - |
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for Interpreting Musical Instruments in Museum Collections" |
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basic idea is to imitate the sound production mechanism of an acoustic
musical instrument using a computer program" - Book References |
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| .."Electronic
musical instruments. Since World War II pop music in Canada, as in most
countries of the industrial world, has become increasingly dominated by
the sound of electronic musical instruments" |
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| .."In
the last hundred years, there has been an enormous interest in exploring
new means of sound production and manipulation, and instrument designers
have been at the forefront, both in 'improving' existing instruments (as
with Moór's Duplex-Coupler of 1921, a piano with two keyboards tuned
an octave apart) and suggesting new ways forward (like the Flexatone, a
kind of sophisticated musical saw, invented in the 1930s). Composers such
as Harry Partch and Lou Harrison felt limited by the line up of the traditional
orchestra, and so worked to devise new ways of expressing the 'sounds in
their heads' through unusual and exotic instruments." |
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- Bass - Clarinet - Drums and Percussion
- Flute - Guitar - Harmonica -
Mandolin -
Piano
- Recorder - Strings - Trombone
- Trumpet - Ukelele - Voice |
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| .."Extended
techniques are performance techniques used in music to describe unconventional,
unorthodox or "improper" techniques of singing, or of playing musical instruments." |
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| .."A
transposing instrument is a musical instrument whose music is written at
a pitch different from concert pitch. Concert pitch is the pitch as notated
for piano (or any other non-transposing instrument) — e.g., the note "C"
on piano is a concert C. On a transposing instrument, a concert C is written
as another note. On the surface, this may be confusing, but there are several
reasons for the existence of transposing instruments. The difference between
a transposing instrument and a non-transposing instrument is only in whether
or not the music is written at its sounding (concert) pitch." |
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is often used in music production to make performances more consistent
in dynamic range so that they "sit" in the mix of other instruments" |
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| .."A
virtuoso (from Italian virtuoso, late Latin virtuosus, Latin virtus meaning:
skill, manliness, excellence) is an individual who possesses outstanding
technical ability at singing or playing a musical instrument. The plural
form is either virtuosi or the Anglicisation, virtuosos, and the feminine
form sometimes used is virtuosa. Virtuosi are often musical composers as
well. During the age of Baroque music many composers were also virtuosi
on their respective instruments" |
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