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Brass quintet, the Glossary

A brass quintet is a five-piece musical ensemble composed of brass instruments.^[1]

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Brass quintets

Alvin Etler

Alvin Derald Etler (February 19, 1913 – June 13, 1973) was an American composer and oboist.

American Brass Quintet

The American Brass Quintet is an American brass quintet founded in 1960. Brass quintet and American Brass Quintet are brass quintets.

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The Annapolis Brass Quintet (ABQ) was a brass quintet founded by trumpet player David Cran and trombone player Robert Posten in 1971 as America's only full-time performing brass ensemble. Brass quintet and Annapolis Brass Quintet are brass quintets.

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Arthur Frackenpohl

Arthur Roland Frackenpohl (23 April 1924 – 8 June 2019) was an American composer and Professor Emeritus at the Crane School of Music at the State University of New York at Potsdam.

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Atlantic Brass Quintet

The Atlantic Brass Quintet is an American brass quintet that has been in existence for over 30 years. Founded in 1985 by John Manning, Joseph Foley, John Faieta, Tsuyoshi Taramotoi, and Bob Rasmussen, the quintet has won Grand prizes at the,, the Shoreline Alliance Chamber Music Competition, the Summit Brass First International Brass Ensemble Competition, and the International Brass Quintet Competition. Brass quintet and Atlantic Brass Quintet are brass quintets.

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Baritone horn

The baritone horn, sometimes called baritone, is a low-pitched brass instrument in the saxhorn family.

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Baroque music

Baroque music refers to the period or dominant style of Western classical music composed from about 1600 to 1750.

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Bass trombone

The bass trombone (Bassposaune, trombone basso) is the bass instrument in the trombone family of brass instruments.

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Berlin Wall

The Berlin Wall (Berliner Mauer) was a guarded concrete barrier that encircled West Berlin of the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG; West Germany) from 1961 to 1989, separating it from East Berlin and the German Democratic Republic (GDR; East Germany).

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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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Brass quintet repertoire

Along with a concerted effort to commission new works for brass quintet since 1967 the bulk of any brass quintet's repertoire consists of arrangements of pre-existing music.

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Canadian Brass

The Canadian Brass is a Canadian brass quintet formed in 1970 in Toronto, Ontario, by Charles Daellenbach (tuba) and Gene Watts (trombone), with horn player Graeme Page and trumpeters Stuart Laughton and Bill Phillips completing the quintet. Brass quintet and Canadian Brass are brass quintets.

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Chestnut Brass Company

The Grammy winning Chestnut Brass Company is a Philadelphia brass quintet founded in 1977. Brass quintet and Chestnut Brass Company are brass quintets.

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Chicago Brass Quintet

The Chicago Brass Quintet is a five-piece brass quintet from Chicago, Illinois, formed in 1963 (sometimes credited as 1964), and still active. Brass quintet and Chicago Brass Quintet are brass quintets.

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Chromatic scale

The chromatic scale (or twelve-tone scale) is a set of twelve pitches (more completely, pitch classes) used in tonal music, with notes separated by the interval of a semitone.

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Cornet

The cornet is a brass instrument similar to the trumpet but distinguished from it by its conical bore, more compact shape, and mellower tone quality.

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Dallas Brass

The Dallas Brass is an American brass quintet started by Michael Levine in 1983. Brass quintet and Dallas Brass are brass quintets.

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Distin family

The Distin family was an ensemble of British musicians in the 19th century who performed on brass instruments, and from 1845 promoted the saxhorn.

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Empire Brass

Empire Brass is a brass quintet from the United States. Brass quintet and Empire Brass are brass quintets.

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Euphonium

The euphonium is a medium-sized, 3 or 4-valve, often compensating, conical-bore, tenor-voiced brass instrument that derives its name from the Ancient Greek word εὔφωνος euphōnos, meaning "well-sounding" or "sweet-voiced" (εὖ eu means "well" or "good" and φωνή phōnē means "sound", hence "of good sound").

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Flugelhorn

The flugelhorn, also spelled fluegelhorn, flugel horn, or flügelhorn, is a brass instrument that resembles the trumpet and cornet but has a wider, more conical bore.

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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.

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Gunther Schuller

Gunther Alexander Schuller (November 22, 1925June 21, 2015) was an American composer, conductor, horn player, author, historian, educator, publisher, and jazz musician.

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Jean-François Bellon

Jean-François Victor Bellon (30 May 1795 in Lyon – 2 March 1869 in the 11th arrondissement of Paris) was a 19th-century French classical violinist and composer.

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Malcolm Arnold

Sir Malcolm Henry Arnold (21 October 1921 – 23 September 2006) was an English composer.

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Meridian Arts Ensemble

The Meridian Arts Ensemble is an American chamber music ensemble based in New York City, specializing in the performance of new works for brass and percussion.

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Musical composition

Musical composition can refer to an original piece or work of music, either vocal or instrumental, the structure of a musical piece or to the process of creating or writing a new piece of music.

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Musical ensemble

A musical ensemble, also known as a music group or musical group, is a group of people who perform instrumental and/or vocal music, with the ensemble typically known by a distinct name.

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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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Piccolo trumpet

The piccolo trumpet is the smallest member of the trumpet family, pitched one octave higher than the standard B trumpet.

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Presidio Brass

Presidio Brass is a brass quintet based in San Diego, California. Brass quintet and Presidio Brass are brass quintets.

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Renaissance music

Renaissance music is traditionally understood to cover European music of the 15th and 16th centuries, later than the Renaissance era as it is understood in other disciplines.

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Robert Nagel

Robert Nagel (September 29, 1924 – June 5, 2016) was an American trumpet player, composer, and teacher.

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Saxhorn

The saxhorn is a family of valved brass instruments that have conical bores and deep cup-shaped mouthpieces.

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Smoky Mountain Brass Quintet

Smoky Mountain Brass Quintet is a brass quintet founded in 1993 and currently Quintet in Residence at Western Carolina University. Brass quintet and Smoky Mountain Brass Quintet are brass quintets.

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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.

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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".

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Timpani

Timpani or kettledrums (also informally called timps) are musical instruments in the percussion family.

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Trombone

The trombone (Posaune, Italian, French: trombone) is a musical instrument in the brass family.

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Trumpet

The trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz ensembles.

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Tuba

The tuba is the largest and lowest-pitched musical instrument in the brass family.

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Victor Ewald

Victor Vladímirovich Ewald (or Ėval′d) (Ви́ктор Влади́мирович Э́вальд; 27 November 1860 – 16 April 1935), was a Russian engineer, architect, and composer of music, mainly for conical brass instruments.

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World War II

World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.

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