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Contrabass trombone, the Glossary

The contrabass trombone (Kontrabassposaune, trombone contrabbasso) is the lowest-pitched instrument in the trombone family of brass instruments.^[1]

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A440 (pitch standard)

A440 (also known as Stuttgart pitch) is the musical pitch corresponding to an audio frequency of 440 Hz, which serves as a tuning standard for the musical note of A above middle C, or A4 in scientific pitch notation.

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Accession number (cultural property)

In libraries, art galleries, museums and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to, and achieving initial control of, each acquisition.

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Aerophone

An aerophone is a musical instrument that produces sound primarily by causing a body of air to vibrate, without the use of strings or membranes (which are respectively chordophones and membranophones), and without the vibration of the instrument itself adding considerably to the sound (or idiophones).

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Aida

Aida (or Aïda) is a tragic opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Antonio Ghislanzoni.

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Alban Berg

Alban Maria Johannes Berg (9 February 1885 – 24 December 1935) was an Austrian composer of the Second Viennese School.

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Allgemeine musikalische Zeitung

The Allgemeine musikalische Zeitung (General music newspaper) was a German-language periodical published in the 19th century.

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Anton Webern

Anton Webern (3 December 1883 – 15 September 1945) was an Austrian composer, conductor, and musicologist.

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Arnold Schoenberg

Arnold Schoenberg or Schönberg (13 September 187413 July 1951) was an Austrian and American composer, music theorist, teacher and writer.

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Axial flow valve

The axial flow valve, or Thayer valve, is a brass instrument valve design patented in 1978 by Orla Ed Thayer.

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Bass trombone

The bass trombone (Bassposaune, trombone basso) is the bass instrument in the trombone family of brass instruments. Contrabass trombone and bass trombone are bass (sound), orchestral instruments and trombones.

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Bill Reichenbach Jr.

William Frank Reichenbach Jr. (born November 30, 1949) is an American jazz trombonist and composer.

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Boosey & Hawkes

Boosey & Hawkes is a British music publisher, purported to be the largest specialist classical music publisher in the world.

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Bore (wind instruments)

In music, the bore of a wind instrument (including woodwind and brass) is its interior chamber.

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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 instrument valve

Brass instrument valves are valves used to change the length of tubing of a brass instrument allowing the player to reach the notes of various harmonic series.

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C. G. Conn

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Call of Duty (video game)

Call of Duty is a 2003 first-person shooter game developed by Infinity Ward and published by Activision.

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Carl Wilhelm Moritz

Carl Wilhelm Moritz (1810–1855) was a German musical instrument builder.

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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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Cimbasso

The cimbasso is a low brass instrument that covers the same range as a tuba or contrabass trombone. Contrabass trombone and cimbasso are bass (sound), contrabass instruments and orchestral instruments.

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Composer

A composer is a person who writes music.

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Crook (music)

A crook, also sometimes called a shank, is an exchangeable segment of tubing in a natural horn (or other brass instrument, such as a natural trumpet) which is used to change the length of the pipe, altering the fundamental pitch and harmonic series which the instrument can sound, and thus the key in which it plays.

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Das Rheingold

Das Rheingold (The Rhinegold), WWV 86A, is the first of the four epic music dramas that constitute Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen (English: The Ring of the Nibelung).

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Der Ring des Nibelungen

(The Ring of the Nibelung), WWV 86, is a cycle of four German-language epic music dramas composed by Richard Wagner.

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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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An organ pipe, or a harpsichord string, designated as eight-foot pitch (8′) is sounded at standard, ordinary pitch.

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Elektra (opera)

Elektra, Op. 58, is a one-act opera by Richard Strauss, to a German-language libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal, which he adapted from his 1903 drama Elektra.

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Film score

A film score is original music written specifically to accompany a film.

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Fromental Halévy

Jacques-François-Fromental-Élie Halévy, usually known as Fromental Halévy (27 May 179917 March 1862), was a French composer.

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Georges Bizet

Georges Bizet (25 October 18383 June 1875) was a French composer of the Romantic era.

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Giacomo Puccini

Giacomo Puccini (22 December 1858 29 November 1924) was an Italian composer known primarily for his operas.

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Giuseppe Verdi

Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi (9 or 10 October 1813 – 27 January 1901) was an Italian composer best known for his operas.

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Gottfried Weber

Jacob Gottfried Weber (1 March 1779 – 21 September 1839) was a German writer on music (especially on music theory), composer, and jurist.

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Gurre-Lieder

(Songs of Gurre) is a tripartite oratorio followed by a melodramatic epilogue for five vocal soloists, narrator, three choruses, and grand orchestra.

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Gustave Auguste Besson

Gustave-Auguste Besson (1820-1874) was a musical instrument manufacturer and innovator.

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György Ligeti

György Sándor Ligeti (28 May 1923 – 12 June 2006) was a Hungarian-Austrian composer of contemporary classical music.

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Hagmann valve

The Hagmann Free-Flow Valve is a trademarked brass instrument valve design developed by Swiss musician and instrument technician René Hagmann, first introduced for trombone F attachments in 1990.

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Hans Werner Henze

Hans Werner Henze (1 July 1926 – 27 October 2012) was a German composer.

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Harrison Birtwistle

Sir Harrison Birtwistle (15 July 1934 – 18 April 2022) was an English composer of contemporary classical music best known for his operas, often based on mythological subjects.

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Havergal Brian

William Havergal Brian (29 January 187628 November 1972) was a prominent 20th-century English composer, librettist, and church organist.

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Heinz Hall

Heinz Hall is a performing arts center and concert hall located at 600 Penn Avenue in the Cultural District of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

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Inception

Inception is a 2010 science fiction action film written and directed by Christopher Nolan, who also produced it with Emma Thomas, his wife.

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Jazz

Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues, ragtime, European harmony and African rhythmic rituals.

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Jérôme Thibouville-Lamy

Jérôme Thibouville-Lamy & Cie, abbreviated as "J.T.L.", was a French musical instrument making company, formed in the mid 19th century from the merger of pre-existing makers.

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Jean Hilaire Asté

Jean Hilaire Asté (1775–1840), also known as Halary or Halari, was a French professor of music and instrument-maker.

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Jerry Goldsmith

Jerrald King Goldsmith (February 10, 1929July 21, 2004) was an American composer, with a career in film and television scoring that spanned nearly 50 years and over 200 productions, between 1954 and 2003.

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La Scala

La Scala (officially italics) is a historic opera house in Milan, Italy.

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Los Angeles

Los Angeles, often referred to by its initials L.A., is the most populous city in the U.S. state of California.

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Major sixth

In music from Western culture, a sixth is a musical interval encompassing six note letter names or staff positions (see Interval number for more details), and the major sixth is one of two commonly occurring sixths.

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Manfred Trojahn

Manfred Trojahn (born 22 October 1949) is a German composer, flutist, conductor, writer and academic teacher.

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Maria Schneider (musician)

Maria Lynn Schneider (born November 27, 1960) is an American composer and jazz orchestra leader who has won multiple Grammy Awards.

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Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, colloquially referred to as the Met, is an encyclopedic art museum in New York City.

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Michael Praetorius

Michael Praetorius (probably 28 September 1571 – 15 February 1621) was a German composer, organist, and music theorist.

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Michael Rath Trombones

Michael Rath Trombones is a British manufacturer of retail and custom hand-made trombones.

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Milan

Milan (Milano) is a city in northern Italy, regional capital of Lombardy, and the second-most-populous city proper in Italy after Rome.

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Military band

A military band is a group of personnel that performs musical duties for military functions, usually for the armed forces.

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Minor third

In music theory, a minor third is a musical interval that encompasses three half steps, or semitones.

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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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Musical acoustics

Musical acoustics or music acoustics is a multidisciplinary field that combines knowledge from physics, psychophysics, organology (classification of the instruments), physiology, music theory, ethnomusicology, signal processing and instrument building, among other disciplines.

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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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Noé (opera)

Noé (Noah) was the last opera of the composer Fromental Halévy.

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Octave

In music, an octave (octavus: eighth) or perfect octave (sometimes called the '''diapason''') is a series of eight notes occupying the interval between (and including) two notes, one having twice the frequency of vibration of the other.

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Opera

Opera is a form of theatre in which music is a fundamental component and dramatic roles are taken by singers.

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Opera house

An opera house is a theater building used for performances of opera.

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Ophicleide

The ophicleide is a family of conical-bore keyed brass instruments invented in early 19th-century France to extend the keyed bugle into the alto, bass and contrabass ranges.

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Orchestra

An orchestra is a large instrumental ensemble typical of classical music, which combines instruments from different families.

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Otello

Otello is an opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Arrigo Boito, based on Shakespeare's play Othello.

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Oxford University Press

Oxford University Press (OUP) is the publishing house of the University of Oxford.

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Patent

A patent is a type of intellectual property that gives its owner the legal right to exclude others from making, using, or selling an invention for a limited period of time in exchange for publishing an enabling disclosure of the invention.

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Pedal tone

Pedal tones (or pedals) are special low notes in the harmonic series of brass instruments. Contrabass trombone and pedal tone are bass (sound).

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Perfect fifth

In music theory, a perfect fifth is the musical interval corresponding to a pair of pitches with a frequency ratio of 3:2, or very nearly so.

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Perfect fourth

A fourth is a musical interval encompassing four staff positions in the music notation of Western culture, and a perfect fourth is the fourth spanning five semitones (half steps, or half tones).

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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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Pitch of brass instruments

flat. The pitch of a brass instrument corresponds to the lowest playable resonance frequency of the open instrument.

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Planet of the Apes (1968 film)

Planet of the Apes is a 1968 American science fiction film directed by Franklin J. Schaffner from a screenplay by Michael Wilson and Rod Serling, loosely based on the 1963 novel by Pierre Boulle.

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Planet of the Apes (2001 film)

Planet of the Apes is a 2001 American science fiction adventure film directed by Tim Burton from a screenplay by William Broyles Jr., Lawrence Konner, and Mark Rosenthal.

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Prussia

Prussia (Preußen; Old Prussian: Prūsa or Prūsija) was a German state located on most of the North European Plain, also occupying southern and eastern regions.

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Range (music)

In music, the range, or chromatic range, of a musical instrument is the distance from the lowest to the highest pitch it can play.

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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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Richard Strauss

Richard Georg Strauss (11 June 1864 – 8 September 1949) was a German composer and conductor best known for his tone poems and operas.

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Richard Wagner

Wilhelm Richard Wagner (22 May 181313 February 1883) was a German composer, theatre director, polemicist, and conductor who is chiefly known for his operas (or, as some of his mature works were later known, "music dramas").

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Rotary valve

A rotary valve (also called rotary-motion valve) is a type of valve in which the rotation of a passage or passages in a transverse plug regulates the flow of liquid or gas through the attached pipes.

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Royal Birmingham Conservatoire

The Royal Birmingham Conservatoire is a music school, drama school and concert venue in Birmingham, England.

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Sackbut

A sackbut is an early form of the trombone used during the Renaissance and Baroque eras. Contrabass trombone and sackbut are trombones.

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Serpent (instrument)

The serpent is a low-pitched early wind instrument in the brass family developed in the Renaissance era. Contrabass trombone and serpent (instrument) are orchestral instruments.

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Slide (wind instrument)

A slide is a part of a wind instrument consisting of two (or more) pieces of tubing fitted one closely inside the other, and used to vary the overall length of the tube, and therefore the pitch of the instrument.

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Sofia Gubaidulina

Sofia Asgatovna Gubaidulina (Софи́я Асгáтовна Губaйду́лина, София Әсгать кызы Гобәйдуллина; born 24 October 1931) is a Soviet-Russian composer and an established international figure.

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Soundtrack

A soundtrack is a recorded audio signal accompanying and synchronised to the images of a book, drama, motion picture, radio program, television program, or video game; colloquially, a commercially released soundtrack album of music as featured in the soundtrack of a film, video, or television presentation; or the physical area of a film that contains the synchronised recorded sound.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contrabass_trombone

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Contrabass instruments

Orchestral instruments

Trombones

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