Thursday, May 26, 2011
Sunday, May 22, 2011
Today's concert at HWPL is by the Long Island Brass Guild.
The Long Island Brass Guild began in the 1970s, adding members and instruments along the way - In the 1990s, a tuba was added and a final trumpet was added in 2005 - today the group boasts 7 members: 3 trumpets, French horn, tenor trombone, bass trombone, and tuba - Their repertoire includes classical brass compositions - from Renaissance to Ragtime - and compositions written for the group.
Tenor trombone? Never heard of it (only of the 'regular' and the valve trombones). So I looked it up. The trombone itself derives from Italian tromba (trumpet) and -one (a suffix meaning "large"), so the name literally means "large trumpet". Trombones and trumpets share the important characteristic of having predominantly cylindrical bores. Therefore, the most frequently encountered trombones—the tenor and bass trombone—are the tenor and bass counterparts of the trumpet.
Instruments related to the trombone include:
The Long Island Brass Guild began in the 1970s, adding members and instruments along the way - In the 1990s, a tuba was added and a final trumpet was added in 2005 - today the group boasts 7 members: 3 trumpets, French horn, tenor trombone, bass trombone, and tuba - Their repertoire includes classical brass compositions - from Renaissance to Ragtime - and compositions written for the group.
Tenor trombone? Never heard of it (only of the 'regular' and the valve trombones). So I looked it up. The trombone itself derives from Italian tromba (trumpet) and -one (a suffix meaning "large"), so the name literally means "large trumpet". Trombones and trumpets share the important characteristic of having predominantly cylindrical bores. Therefore, the most frequently encountered trombones—the tenor and bass trombone—are the tenor and bass counterparts of the trumpet.
Instruments related to the trombone include:
- Sackbut - medieval precursors to trombones
- Buccin - a visually distinctive trombone popularized in military bands in France between 1810–1845 which subsequently faded into obscurity.
- Trumpet - has the highest register in the brass family. Trumpets are among the oldest musical instruments, dating back to at least 1500 BCE.
- Bass Trumpet - a type of low trumpet which was first developed during the 1820s in Germany.
- Euphonium - tenor-voiced
- Tuba - largest and lowest pitched brass
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