With their light brown wooden paperclip shapes, they looked more like bassoons. In 1838, Adolphe Sax un-raveled the clarinet body, and it became the straight instrument we know it as today. Despite the fact that the bass clarinet has been around for a while, the first solo recital was not performed on it until 1955, when Josef Horák marked history by being the first professional player to dedicate an entire recital to the instrument. Bass clarinets are commonly made of plastic or African hardwood with the keys, bell and rods constructed of nickel, silver or other composite metal. The mouthpiece, which holds the reed, is made of plastic, resin, hard rubber or other composite material.
Pre-Christian drawings of the early flute appear on Roman artifacts. Additional works of art, including two Etruscan reliefs which date from the second and third centuries B.C., clearly showed cross flutes being played. Theobald Boehm, a German flute maker and musicin, developed the first cylindrical metal flute in 1832. This was the most widely used model in the 20th century. The cylindrical Boehm flute is made of metal or wood and has thirteen or more tone holes controlled by a system of padded keys which Boehm created.
The first recording of music was done in the 9th century when the Banu Musa brothers invented a hydropowered organ and later on also invented an automatic flute. In the 14th century Flanders invented a mechanical bell-ringer controlled by rotating cylinder, which later were used in musical clocks, barrel pianos and music boxes. All of these instruments played music but couldn’t play it back. The first instrument that was capable of recording music was the phonautograph by Edouard-Leon Scott de Martinville. In 1876 the player piano was invented; this piano had a punched paper with fifty eight holes which moved over a tracker ball.
1. Introduction The flute is one of the oldest musical instruments, having a history that dates back to prehistoric times where mammoth tusks were being used to create this reedless aerophone. The modern concert flute is a traverse (side-blown) instrument, and adopts the Boehm fingering system, which was developed in the early 1800s. It is typically made out of three parts, namely the headjoint (where the embouchure hole in which the player blows into and across is located), the body (which houses the bulk of the flute’s circular toneholes and key mechanism), as well as the footjoint. It is also pitched in the key of C, making it a non-transposing instrument, and has a range spanning over 3 octaves starting from middle C (C4), or a semi-tone lower (B3), depending on the footjoint being used.
The work is scored for an orchestra of 2 piccolos, 2 flutes, 2 oboes, English horn, 2 clarinets, bass clarinet, 3 bassoons, sarrusophone (oboe/bassoon mixed breed), 4 horns, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, castanets, tambourine, gong, snare drum, celesta, 2 harps and strings. The work was dedicated "À mon cher maître Charles de Bériot.” Bériot was Ravel's piano teacher at the Conservatoire from 1891 to 1895. Although first performed in France, this is not Ravel’s first work in the Spanish style. Other Spanish influences include his early piano pieces, the especially popular Bolero of 1928, and his final song cycle Don Quichotte à Dulcinée, a score that was intended to be used for a stage version of the Cervantes novel. Ravel came to the Spanish idiom by no accident, as his father was Swiss and his mother was from the Northeast corner of Spain, and spoke Basque, also, Spanish was commonly spoken and sung in Ravel’s childhood home.
Saxophone The Saxophone is a group of instruments within the woodwind family, consisting of many different types, all a similar conical shape, excluding the soprano, utilizing a single reed in the mouthpiece similar to a clarinets. There are 4 main or more commonly used types of saxophones, which include; the Soprano, Alto, Tenor and Baritone saxophones. History of The Saxophone The saxophone was invented by a Belgian, Antoine-Joseph (Adolphe) Sax, born on November 6, 1814 in Dinant. His father was an expert maker of musical instruments. As a child he learned to make instruments, His father's passion for creating instruments had such an influence on him that at the age of six, Adolphe had already become an expert.
It started before the Romantic period, but it become popular with German composers of the nineteenth century. The first generally accepted example of a song cycle is Ludwig van Beethoven’s An die ferne Geliebte, opus 98. It considered being the first true song cycle by a major composer. He composed in 1816, and it can be seen as the first real song cycle by a great composer in the sense that it is a number of songs by voice and piano that are clearly related with each other. The six songs of the cycle flow into each other, the tonal structure is very clear, and the poetic structure is also clear.
Also, composers have set many poems to music. Music is one of the oldest arts. People probably started to sing as soon as language developed. Hunting tools struck together may have been the first musical instruments. By about 10,000 B.C., people had discovered how to make flutes out of hollow bones.
Also, composers have set many poems to music. Music is one of the oldest arts. People probably started to sing as soon as language developed. Hunting tools struck together may have been the first musical instruments. By about 10,000 B.C., people had discovered how to make flutes out of hollow bones.
Also, composers have set many poems to music. Music is one of the oldest arts. People probably started to sing as soon as language developed. Hunting tools struck together may have been the first musical instruments. By about 10,000 B.C., people had discovered how to make flutes out of hollow bones.