Amériques, the Glossary
Amériques is an orchestral composition by Edgard Varèse, scored for a very large, romantic orchestra with additional percussion (for eleven performers) including sirens.[1]
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Alto flute
The alto flute is an instrument in the Western concert flute family, pitched below the standard C flute and the uncommon flûte d'amour.
Bass clarinet
The bass clarinet is a musical instrument of the clarinet family.
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Bass drum
The bass drum is a large drum that produces a note of low definite or indefinite pitch.
Bass trombone
The bass trombone (Bassposaune, trombone basso) is the bass instrument in the trombone family of brass instruments.
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Bassoon
The bassoon is a musical instrument in the woodwind family, which plays in the tenor and bass ranges.
Brass instrument
A brass instrument is a musical instrument that produces sound by sympathetic vibration of air in a tubular resonator in sympathy with the vibration of the player's lips.
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Castanets
Castanets, also known as clackers or palillos, are a percussion instrument (idiophone), used in Spanish, Calé, Moorish, Ottoman, Italian, Mexican, Sephardic, Portuguese and Swiss music.
Celesta
The celesta or celeste, also called a bell-piano, is a struck idiophone operated by a keyboard.
Cello
The violoncello, often simply abbreviated as cello, is a bowed (sometimes plucked and occasionally hit) string instrument of the violin family.
Christoph von Dohnányi
Christoph von Dohnányi (born 8 September 1929) is a German conductor.
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Clarinet
The clarinet is a single-reed musical instrument in the woodwind family, with a nearly cylindrical bore and a flared bell.
Claude Debussy
(Achille) Claude Debussy (|group.
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Contrabass clarinet
The contrabass clarinet (also pedal clarinet, after the pedals of pipe organs) and contra-alto clarinet are the two largest members of the clarinet family that are in common usage.
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Contrabass trombone
The contrabass trombone (Kontrabassposaune, trombone contrabbasso) is the lowest-pitched instrument in the trombone family of brass instruments.
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Contrabassoon
The contrabassoon, also known as the double bassoon, is a larger version of the bassoon, sounding an octave lower.
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Cor anglais
The cor anglais (or original; plural: cors anglais) Longman has /kɔːz/ for British and /kɔːrz/ for American -->, or English horn (in North American English), is a double-reed woodwind instrument in the oboe family.
Cymbal
A cymbal is a common percussion instrument.
Double bass
The double bass, also known as the upright bass, the acoustic bass, or simply the bass, is the largest and lowest-pitched chordophone in the modern symphony orchestra (excluding rare additions such as the octobass).
Dynamics (music)
In music, the dynamics of a piece are the variation in loudness between notes or phrases.
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E-flat clarinet
The E-flat (E) clarinet is a member of the clarinet family, smaller than the more common flat clarinet and pitched a perfect fourth higher.
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Edgard Varèse
Edgard Victor Achille Charles Varèse (also spelled Edgar; December 22, 1883 – November 6, 1965) was a French composer who spent the greater part of his career in the United States.
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Equal temperament
An equal temperament is a musical temperament or tuning system that approximates just intervals by dividing an octave (or other interval) into steps such that the ratio of the frequencies of any adjacent pair of notes is the same.
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Fanfare
A fanfare (or fanfarade or flourish) is a short musical flourish which is typically played by trumpets (including fanfare trumpets), French horns or other brass instruments, often accompanied by percussion.
Flute
The flute is a member of a family of musical instruments in the woodwind group.
French horn
The French horn (since the 1930s known simply as the horn in professional music circles) is a brass instrument made of tubing wrapped into a coil with a flared bell.
Gaston Poulet
Gaston Poulet (10 April 1892 – 14 April 1974) was a French violinist and conductor.
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Glockenspiel
The glockenspiel (or,: bells and: play) or bells is a percussion instrument consisting of pitched aluminum or steel bars arranged in a keyboard layout.
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Gong
A gongFrom Indonesian and gong; ꦒꦺꦴꦁ gong; p; どら|dora; គង kong; ฆ้อง khong; cồng chiêng; কাঁহ kãh is a percussion instrument originating in East Asia and Southeast Asia.
Harp
The harp is a stringed musical instrument that has individual strings running at an angle to its soundboard; the strings are plucked with the fingers.
Heckelphone
The heckelphone (Heckelphon) is a musical instrument invented by Wilhelm Heckel and his sons.
Igor Stravinsky
Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky (– 6 April 1971) was a Russian composer and conductor with French citizenship (from 1934) and American citizenship (from 1945).
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Jingle bell
A jingle bell or sleigh bell is a type of bell which produces a distinctive 'jingle' sound, especially in large numbers.
Leopold Stokowski
Leopold Anthony Stokowski (18 April 1882 – 13 September 1977) was a British-born American conductor.
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Lion's roar (instrument)
The lion's roar is a membranophone instrument that has a drum head and a cord or horsehair passing through it.
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List of Cambridge Companions to Music
The Cambridge Companions to Music form a book series published by Cambridge University Press.
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Mariss Jansons
Mariss Ivars Georgs Jansons (14 January 1943 – 1 December 2019) was a Latvian conductor, best known for his interpretations of Mahler, Strauss, and Russian composers such as Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, and Shostakovich.
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Maurice Abravanel
Maurice Abravanel (January 6, 1903 – September 22, 1993) was an American classical music conductor.
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Modernism
Modernism was an early 20th-century movement in literature, visual arts, and music that emphasized experimentation, abstraction, and subjective experience.
Motif (music)
In music, a motif IPA: (/moʊˈtiːf/) or motive is a short musical idea, a salient recurring figure, musical fragment or succession of notes that has some special importance in or is characteristic of a composition.
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New York City
New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.
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Oboe
The oboe is a type of double-reed woodwind instrument.
Opus number
In music, the opus number is the "work number" that is assigned to a musical composition, or to a set of compositions, to indicate the chronological order of the composer's publication of that work.
Orchestra
An orchestra is a large instrumental ensemble typical of classical music, which combines instruments from different families.
Percussion instrument
A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or struck against another similar instrument.
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Philadelphia Orchestra
The Philadelphia Orchestra is an American symphony orchestra, based in Philadelphia.
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Piccolo
The piccolo (Italian for 'small') is a half-size flute and a member of the woodwind family of musical instruments.
Pierre Boulez
Pierre Louis Joseph Boulez (26 March 19255 January 2016) was a French composer, conductor and writer, and the founder of several musical institutions.
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Pitch (music)
Pitch is a perceptual property that allows sounds to be ordered on a frequency-related scale, or more commonly, pitch is the quality that makes it possible to judge sounds as "higher" and "lower" in the sense associated with musical melodies.
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Polyphony
Polyphony is a type of musical texture consisting of two or more simultaneous lines of independent melody, as opposed to a musical texture with just one voice (monophony) or a texture with one dominant melodic voice accompanied by chords (homophony).
Ratchet (instrument)
A ratchet or rattle, more specifically, cog rattle is a musical instrument of the percussion family and a warning/signaling device.
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Riccardo Chailly
Riccardo Chailly (born 20 February 1953) is an Italian conductor.
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Romantic music
Romantic music is a stylistic movement in Western Classical music associated with the period of the 19th century commonly referred to as the Romantic era (or Romantic period).
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Siren (alarm)
A siren is a loud noise-making device.
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Slapstick
Slapstick is a style of humor involving exaggerated physical activity that exceeds the boundaries of normal physical comedy.
Snare drum
The snare drum (or side drum) is a percussion instrument that produces a sharp staccato sound when the head is struck with a drum stick, due to the use of a series of stiff wires held under tension against the lower skin.
String instrument
In musical instrument classification, string instruments or chordophones, are musical instruments that produce sound from vibrating strings when a performer plays or sounds the strings in some manner.
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Tambourine
The tambourine is a musical instrument in the percussion family consisting of a frame, often of wood or plastic, with pairs of small metal jingles, called "zills".
Texture (music)
In music, texture is how the tempo, melodic, and harmonic materials are combined in a musical composition, determining the overall quality of the sound in a piece.
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The Rite of Spring
The Rite of Spring (Le Sacre du printemps) is a ballet and orchestral concert work by the Russian composer Igor Stravinsky.
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Timbre
In music, timbre, also known as tone color or tone quality (from psychoacoustics), is the perceived sound quality of a musical note, sound or tone.
Timpani
Timpani or kettledrums (also informally called timps) are musical instruments in the percussion family.
Triangle (musical instrument)
The triangle is a musical instrument in the percussion family, classified as an idiophone in the Hornbostel-Sachs classification system.
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Trombone
The trombone (Posaune, Italian, French: trombone) is a musical instrument in the brass family.
Trumpet
The trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz ensembles.
Tuba
The tuba is the largest and lowest-pitched musical instrument in the brass family.
Tubular bells
Tubular bells (also known as chimes) are musical instruments in the percussion family.
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United States
The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.
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Utah Symphony
The Utah Symphony is an American orchestra based in Salt Lake City, Utah.
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Viola
The viola is a string instrument that is usually bowed.
Violin
The violin, colloquially known as a fiddle, is a wooden chordophone, and is the smallest, and thus highest-pitched instrument (soprano) in regular use in the violin family.
Whip
A whip is a blunt weapon or implement used in a striking motion to create sound or pain.
Whistle
A whistle is a musical instrument which produces sound from a stream of gas, most commonly air.
Wind machine
The wind machine (also called an aeoliphone or aelophon) is a friction idiophone used to produce the sound of wind for orchestral compositions and musical theater productions.
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Woodwind instrument
Woodwind instruments are a family of musical instruments within the greater category of wind instruments.
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Xylophone
The xylophone is a musical instrument in the percussion family that consists of wooden bars struck by mallets.
See also
Compositions by Edgard Varèse
- Amériques
- Arcana (Varèse)
- Déserts
- Density 21.5
- Hyperprism (Varèse)
- Intégrales
- Ionisation (Varèse)
- Nocturnal (Varèse)
- Octandre
- Poème électronique
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amériques
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