10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DOUBLE BASSOON»
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1
Treatise on Instrumentation
The. Tenoroon. (Basson. Quinte). The. Double-bassoon. Clarinets* \\of medxSm'
diffiadfti II but difficult N.B. Very difficult, like. The tenoroon is a diminutive of the
bassoon; its pitch is a fifth higher. It has about the same range and is also written
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Hector Berlioz, Richard Strauss, 1985
2
The NPR Classical Music Companion: An Essential Guide for ...
Both Handel and Haydn wrote occasional parts for an early form of the double
bassoon, and Beethoven called for double bassoon in his Fifth and Ninth
symphonies. The modern contrabassoon did not appear until the 1870s, however
, when a ...
3
A Dictionary of Music and Musicians
DOUBLE BASSOON (It. Conirofagotto; Fr. Contrsbeseon; Ger. COMrofugotf,
Doppclfugott). The contrafsgotto or double bassoon, in pitch an octave below the
ordinary bassoon, is not by any means a new instrument; but the older
instruments ...
4
General Musical Instruction
Tun DOUBLE Bassoon has a compass from the great .D up to the onelined (1. Its
tones, however, sound an octave lower than they are written, it being of sixteen-
feet tonesl' With the bassoon and double bassoon, particularly in wind orchestras
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Adolf Bernhard Marx, 2012
5
Musical Wind Instruments
No doubt the difliculty of constructing such large instruments without adequate
key-work accounts for the non-success of the double bassoon in the 18th century.
In the first half of the 19th century determined efforts were made to overcome the
...
6
Anatomy of the Orchestra
Double Bassoon All other languages give this instrument the prefix 'contra' in its
various guises (Fr. contre-; Ger. Kontra-; It. contra-). The Italians, however, also
use the spelling contraffagotto, as does Beethoven in Fidelio, recalling the ...
7
The Facts on File Dictionary of Music
The Italian word for double bassoon (see under BASSOON). contralto (kn tral′to
̄) pl. contraltos Another word for ALTO, def. 1. contrapuntal (kon′′tr pun′tl).
Pertaining to or in the form of COUNTERPOINT. contrary motion 1 In music with ...
8
The Cambridge Music Guide
8 Oboe English horn Oboe d'amore Bassoon Double-bassoon 8ve lower Various
attempts have been made to build a satisfactory bass oboe; but the existence of
the bassoon, a double-reed instrument and the true bass of the woodwind group
...
Stanley Sadie, Alison Latham, 1990
9
A treatise upon modern instrumentation and orchestration
Stringed Instruments with Keys : — The Pianoforte .... Wind Instruments Table of
Transposing and Non-Transposing Instruments • Reed Instruments: — The
Hautboy The Como Inglese The Bassoon The Basson-quinte The Double-
Bassoon .
Louis Hector Berlioz, 1856
10
Principles of Orchestration
The low and middle range of the piccolo and small clarinet correspond to the
same register in the normal flute and clarinet, but the tone is so much weaker that
it is of little service in those regions. The double bassoon extends the range of the
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Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov, 2013
9 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DOUBLE BASSOON»
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Who was Bartolomeo Cristofori? Google doodle celebrates piano …
... spectrum of any instrument in the orchestra from below the lowest note of the double bassoon to above the top note of the piccolo; its ability to ... «Sydney Morning Herald, May 15»
One-man parody 'America's Got Downton' mashes up 'Downton …
Daisy's thick-as-pudding Yorkshire accent. Carson's double bassoon booms from the Isle of Foghorn. Branson's heavy and slightly insurgent ... «OregonLive.com, Apr 15»
Kirkos Ensemble are drawn to the dark side
... minor), and Mendelssohn's Reformation symphony, complete with a serpent reinforcing the double bassoon line, as Mendelssohn specified. «Irish Times, Apr 15»
The Forces Were With Pittman
... and an orchestra consisting of at least three to four of everything (including alto flute, double bassoon, two harps, and authentic cow horn). «The Boston Musical Intelligencer, Mar 15»
David Robertson establishes context for Maurice Ravel at Davies
Beginning with a nebulous cloud in the low strings from which a sinuously bizarre melody line emerges from the double bassoon, the ... «Examiner.com, May 13»
At School of Piano Technology for the Blind, the tuners find harmony
It can sound out way down low to the lowest note of the Double Bassoon, and all the way up to the highest note of the Piccolo.” So now think ... «Oregon Music News, Feb 13»
Luisotti discloses Puccini's orchestral virtues
... whether it involved the strategic sonorities of a double bassoon or pulling out all the stops (perhaps literally) on the backstage pipe organ. «Examiner.com, Nov 12»
BSO, Dutoit and soloists provide an operatic feast of Ravel and …
... unusual and sometimes raucous sounds—double bass paired with soprano voice, wind machine, and the double bassoon pepper the score. «Boston Classical Review, Oct 12»
SF Symphony contrabassoonist gets down
Unlike most other woodwind instruments, which come apart into neat little components, the contrabassoon (or double bassoon, if you're British) ... «San Francisco Chronicle, Mar 10»
