Tuba, the Glossary
The tuba is the largest and lowest-pitched musical instrument in the brass family.[1]
Table of Contents
162 relations: Adolphe Sax, Aerophone, Alexander Arutiunian, Also sprach Zarathustra, An Alpine Symphony, An American in Paris, Anton Bruckner, Baritone horn, Bass trombone, Benvenuto Cellini (opera), Bill Barber (musician), Birth of the Cool, Boosey & Hawkes, Bore (wind instruments), Brass, Brass band, Brass instrument, Brass instrument valve, British brass band, Bruce Broughton, Carl Wilhelm Moritz, Cimbasso, Concert band, Concerto, Contrabass bugle, Cornet, David Carlson, Déserts, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Dmitri Shostakovich, Double bass, Drum and bugle corps (modern), Edgard Varèse, Edward Gregson, Ein Heldenleben, Electroplating, Eric Ewazen, Euphonium, Faust Overture, Flutter-tonguing, Fountains of Rome (symphonic poem), François Périnet, Friedrich Blühmel, Fundamental frequency, George Gershwin, Gerard Hoffnung, Gold, Gustav Holst, Gustav Mahler, ... Expand index (112 more) »
- Contrabass instruments
- German musical instruments
- Marching band instruments
- Orchestral instruments
- Tubas
Adolphe Sax
Antoine-Joseph "Adolphe" Sax (6 November 1814 – 7 February 1894) was a Belgian inventor and musician who invented the saxophone in the early 1840s, patenting it in 1846.
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).
Alexander Arutiunian
Alexander Grigori Arutiunian (Ալեքսանդր Գրիգորի Հարությունյան), also known as Arutunian, Arutyunyan, Arutjunjan, Harutyunian or Harutiunian (23 September 1920 – 28 March 2012), was a Soviet and Armenian composer and pianist, widely known for his 1950 Trumpet Concerto.
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Also sprach Zarathustra
, Op. 30 (Thus Spoke Zarathustra or Thus Spake Zarathustra) is a tone poem by Richard Strauss, composed in 1896 and inspired by Friedrich Nietzsche's philosophical 1883–1885 novel Thus Spoke Zarathustra.
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An Alpine Symphony
An Alpine Symphony (Eine Alpensinfonie), Op. 64, is a tone poem for large orchestra written by German composer Richard Strauss in 1915.
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An American in Paris
An American in Paris is a jazz-influenced symphonic poem (or tone poem) for orchestra by American composer George Gershwin first performed in 1928.
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Anton Bruckner
Josef Anton Bruckner (4 September 182411 October 1896) was an Austrian composer and organist best known for his symphonies and sacred music, which includes Masses, Te Deum and motets.
Baritone horn
The baritone horn, sometimes called baritone, is a low-pitched brass instrument in the saxhorn family. Tuba and baritone horn are marching band instruments.
Bass trombone
The bass trombone (Bassposaune, trombone basso) is the bass instrument in the trombone family of brass instruments. Tuba and bass trombone are bass (sound) and orchestral instruments.
Benvenuto Cellini (opera)
Benvenuto Cellini is an opera semiseria in four tableaux (spread across two or three acts) by Hector Berlioz, his first full-length work for the stage.
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Bill Barber (musician)
John William Barber (May 21, 1920 – June 18, 2007) was an American jazz tubist.
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Birth of the Cool
Birth of the Cool is a compilation album by the American jazz trumpeter and bandleader Miles Davis, released in February 1957 by Capitol Records.
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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.
Bore (wind instruments)
In music, the bore of a wind instrument (including woodwind and brass) is its interior chamber.
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Brass
Brass is an alloy of copper and zinc, in proportions which can be varied to achieve different colours and mechanical, electrical, acoustic and chemical properties, but copper typically has the larger proportion, generally 66% copper and 34% zinc.
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Brass band
A brass band is a musical ensemble generally consisting primarily of brass instruments, most often with a percussion section.
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.
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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British brass band
In Britain, a brass band (known regionally as a silver band or colliery band) is a musical ensemble comprising a standardized range of brass and percussion instruments.
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Bruce Broughton
Bruce Harold Broughton (born March 8, 1945) is an American orchestral composer of television, film, and video game scores and concert works.
Carl Wilhelm Moritz
Carl Wilhelm Moritz (1810–1855) was a German musical instrument builder.
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Cimbasso
The cimbasso is a low brass instrument that covers the same range as a tuba or contrabass trombone. Tuba and cimbasso are bass (sound), contrabass instruments and orchestral instruments.
Concert band
A concert band, also called a wind band, wind ensemble, wind symphony, wind orchestra, symphonic band, the symphonic winds, or symphonic wind ensemble, is a performing ensemble consisting of members of the woodwind, brass, and percussion families of instruments, and occasionally including the harp, double bass, or bass guitar.
Concerto
A concerto (plural concertos, or concerti from the Italian plural) is, from the late Baroque era, mostly understood as an instrumental composition, written for one or more soloists accompanied by an orchestra or other ensemble.
Contrabass bugle
The contrabass bugle (usually shortened to contra or simply called the marching tuba) is the lowest-pitched brass instrument in the drum and bugle corps and marching band hornline. Tuba and contrabass bugle are contrabass instruments, marching band instruments and tubas.
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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David Carlson
David Carlson (born 13 March 1952) is an American composer.
Déserts
Déserts (1950–1954) is a piece by Edgard Varèse for 14 winds (brass and woodwinds), 5 percussion players, 1 piano, and electronic tape.
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Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
("The Master-Singers of Nuremberg"), WWV 96, is a music drama, or opera, in three acts, by Richard Wagner.
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Dirty Dozen Brass Band
The Dirty Dozen Brass Band is an American brass band based in New Orleans, Louisiana.
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Dmitri Shostakovich
Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich (9 August 1975) was a Soviet-era Russian composer and pianist who became internationally known after the premiere of his First Symphony in 1926 and thereafter was regarded as a major composer.
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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). Tuba and double bass are bass (sound) and contrabass instruments.
Drum and bugle corps (modern)
A modern drum and bugle corps is a musical marching unit consisting of brass instruments, percussion instruments, electronic instruments, and color guard. Typically operating as independent non-profit organizations, corps perform in competitions, parades, festivals, and other civic functions.
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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.
Edward Gregson
Edward Gregson (born 23 July 1945) is an English composer of instrumental and choral music, particularly for brass and wind bands and ensembles, as well as music for the theatre, film, and television.
Ein Heldenleben
Ein Heldenleben (A Hero's Life), Op. 40, is a tone poem by Richard Strauss.
Electroplating
Electroplating, also known as electrochemical deposition or electrodeposition, is a process for producing a metal coating on a solid substrate through the reduction of cations of that metal by means of a direct electric current.
Eric Ewazen
Eric Ewazen (born March 1, 1954, Cleveland, Ohio) is an American composer and teacher.
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"). Tuba and euphonium are German musical instruments, marching band instruments and tubas.
Faust Overture
The Faust Overture is a concert overture by German composer Richard Wagner.
Flutter-tonguing
Flutter-tonguing is a wind instrument tonguing technique in which performers flutter their tongue to make a characteristic "FrrrrrFrrrrr" sound.
Fountains of Rome (symphonic poem)
Fountains of Rome (Fontane di Roma), P 106, is a tone poem in four movements completed in 1916 by the Italian composer Ottorino Respighi.
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François Périnet
Étienne-François Périnet (known professionally as François Périnet; 30 May 1805, Megève – 21 September 1861) was a French instrument maker, best known for his development of an early piston valve system for brass instruments.
Friedrich Blühmel
Friedrich Blühmel (born 1777, died before 1845) was a German horn player and musical instrument builder.
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Fundamental frequency
The fundamental frequency, often referred to simply as the fundamental, is defined as the lowest frequency of a periodic waveform.
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George Gershwin
George Gershwin (born Jacob Gershwine; September 26, 1898 – July 11, 1937) was an American composer and pianist whose compositions spanned popular, jazz and classical genres.
Gerard Hoffnung
Gerard Hoffnung (22 March 192528 September 1959) was an artist and musician, best known for his humorous works.
Gold
Gold is a chemical element; it has symbol Au (from the Latin word aurum) and atomic number 79.
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Gustav Holst
Gustav Theodore Holst (born Gustavus Theodore von Holst; 21 September 1874 – 25 May 1934) was an English composer, arranger and teacher.
Gustav Mahler
Gustav Mahler (7 July 1860 – 18 May 1911) was an Austro-Bohemian Romantic composer, and one of the leading conductors of his generation.
Gustave Auguste Besson
Gustave-Auguste Besson (1820-1874) was a musical instrument manufacturer and innovator.
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Harmonic
In physics, acoustics, and telecommunications, a harmonic is a sinusoidal wave with a frequency that is a positive integer multiple of the fundamental frequency of a periodic signal.
Harmonic series (music)
A harmonic series (also overtone series) is the sequence of harmonics, musical tones, or pure tones whose frequency is an integer multiple of a fundamental frequency.
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Hector Berlioz
Louis-Hector Berlioz (11 December 1803 – 8 March 1869) was a French Romantic composer and conductor.
Heinrich Stölzel
Heinrich David Stölzel (7 September 1777 – 16 February 1844) was a German horn player who developed some of the first valves for brass instruments.
Helicon (instrument)
The helicon is a brass musical instrument in the tuba family.
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Henry Threadgill
Henry Threadgill (born February 15, 1944) is an American composer, saxophonist and flautist.
High school (North America)
High schools in North America are schools for secondary education, which may also involve intermediate education.
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Holton (Leblanc)
Holton is a brand owned by the Conn-Selmer division of Steinway Musical Instruments.
Homenaje a Federico García Lorca
(Homage to Federico García Lorca) is a work for chamber orchestra by the Mexican composer Silvestre Revueltas.
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Igor Stravinsky
Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky (– 6 April 1971) was a Russian composer and conductor with French citizenship (from 1934) and American citizenship (from 1945).
Infrasound
Infrasound, sometimes referred to as low frequency sound, describes sound waves with a frequency below the lower limit of human audibility (generally 20 Hz, as defined by the ANSI/ASA S1.1-2013 standard).
James Barnes (composer)
James Charles Barnes (born September 9, 1949 in Hobart, Oklahoma, U.S.) is an American composer.
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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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Jazz band
A jazz band (jazz ensemble or jazz combo) is a musical ensemble that plays jazz music.
Jennifer Higdon
Jennifer Elaine Higdon (born December 31, 1962) is an American composer of contemporary classical music.
Johann Gottfried Moritz
Johann Gottfried Moritz (1777 - 23 July 1840) was a German musical instrument builder, best known as one of the inventors of the modern tuba.
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Johannes Brahms
Johannes Brahms (7 May 1833 – 3 April 1897) was a German composer, virtuoso pianist, and conductor of the mid-Romantic period.
John Golland
John Golland (14 September 1942 in Ashton-under-Lyne – 14 April 1993 in Dukinfield) was an English composer.
John Philip Sousa
John Philip Sousa (November 6, 1854 – March 6, 1932) was an American composer and conductor of the late Romantic era known primarily for American military marches.
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John Williams
John Towner Williams (born February 8, 1932)Nylund, Rob (November 15, 2022).
Josef Tal
Josef Tal (יוסף טל; September 18, 1910 – August 25, 2008) was an Israeli composer.
Joseph Hallman
Joseph Hallman (born Nov. 20, 1979) is an American composer.
Kalevi Aho
Kalevi Ensio Aho (born 9 March 1949) is a Finnish composer.
King Musical Instruments
King Musical Instruments (originally founded as the H. N. White Company) is a former musical instrument manufacturing company located in Cleveland, Ohio, that used the trade name King for its instruments.
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Kraslice
Kraslice (Graslitz) is a town in Sokolov District in the Karlovy Vary Region of the Czech Republic.
La damnation de Faust
La damnation de Faust (English: The Damnation of Faust), Op.
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La noche de los mayas (Revueltas)
La noche de los mayas is a film score by the Mexican composer Silvestre Revueltas for the 1939 film of the same name, Revueltas's score consists of 36 sequences without any organic relation to one another, composed to be easily fitted to an already-edited film.
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Lacquer
Lacquer is a type of hard and usually shiny coating or finish applied to materials such as wood or metal.
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Latin
Latin (lingua Latina,, or Latinum) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages.
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Leadpipe
In a brass instrument, a leadpipe or mouthpipe is the pipe or tube into which the mouthpiece is placed.
List of tubists
The tuba has been played since the mid-19th century, in the midst of the Romantic period of Western Classical music.
Louis Armstrong
Louis Daniel Armstrong (August 4, 1901 – July 6, 1971), nicknamed "Satchmo", "Satch", and "Pops", was an American trumpeter and vocalist.
Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five
The Hot Five was Louis Armstrong's first jazz recording band led under his own name.
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Marching band
A marching band is a group of instrumental musicians who perform while marching, often for entertainment or competition.
Marcus Paus
Marcus Nicolay Paus (born 14 October 1979) is a Norwegian composer and one of the most performed contemporary Scandinavian composers.
Marcus Rojas
Marcus Rojas (born February 23, 1963) is an American tubist from New York City.
Martin Ellerby
Martin Ellerby (1957, Worksop, Nottinghamshire, England) is an English composer.
Maurice Ravel
Joseph Maurice Ravel (7 March 1875 – 28 December 1937) was a French composer, pianist and conductor.
Melton Meinl Weston
Melton Meinl Weston is a manufacturer of brass instruments owned by Buffet Crampon.
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Miles Ahead (album)
Miles Ahead is an album by Miles Davis that was released in October 1957 by Columbia Records.
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Miles Davis
Miles Dewey Davis III (May 26, 1926September 28, 1991) was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer.
Military band
A military band is a group of personnel that performs musical duties for military functions, usually for the armed forces.
Missing fundamental
The pitch being perceived with the first harmonic being absent in the waveform is called the missing fundamental phenomenon.
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Modest Mussorgsky
Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky (In his day, the name was written Модестъ Петровичъ Мусоргскій.|Modest Petrovich Musorgsky|mɐˈdɛst pʲɪˈtrovʲɪtɕ ˈmusərkskʲɪj|Ru-Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky version.ogg; –) was a Russian composer, one of the group known as "The Five".
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Mouthpiece (brass)
The mouthpiece on brass instruments is the part of the instrument placed on the player's lips.
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New Orleans
New Orleans (commonly known as NOLA or the Big Easy among other nicknames) is a consolidated city-parish located along the Mississippi River in the southeastern region of the U.S. state of Louisiana.
Nickel
Nickel is a chemical element; it has symbol Ni and atomic number 28.
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Night on Bald Mountain
Night on Bald Mountain (translit), also known as Night on the Bare Mountain, is a series of compositions by Modest Mussorgsky (1839–1881).
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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.
Orchestra
An orchestra is a large instrumental ensemble typical of classical music, which combines instruments from different families.
Ottorino Respighi
Ottorino Respighi (9 July 187918 April 1936) was an Italian composer, violinist, teacher, and musicologist and one of the leading Italian composers of the early 20th century.
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Overtone
An overtone is any resonant frequency above the fundamental frequency of a sound.
Paul Hindemith
Paul Hindemith (16 November 189528 December 1963) was a German and American composer, music theorist, teacher, violist and conductor.
Petrushka (ballet)
Petrushka (Pétrouchka; Петрушка) is a ballet by Russian composer Igor Stravinsky.
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Philip Sparke
Philip Allen Sparke (born 29 December 1951) is an English composer and musician born in London, noted for his concert band and brass band music.
Pictures at an Exhibition
Pictures at an Exhibition is a piano suite in ten movements, plus a recurring and varied Promenade theme, written in 1874 by Russian composer Modest Mussorgsky.
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Pines of Rome
Pines of Rome (Pini di Roma), P 141, is a tone poem in four movements for orchestra completed in 1924 by the Italian composer Ottorino Respighi.
Piston valve
A piston valve is a device used to control the motion of a fluid or gas along a tube or pipe by means of the linear motion of a piston within a chamber or cylinder.
Polishing
Polishing is the process of creating a smooth and shiny surface by rubbing it or by applying a chemical treatment, leaving a clean surface with a significant specular reflection (still limited by the index of refraction of the material according to the Fresnel equations).
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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Ralph Vaughan Williams
Ralph Vaughan Williams (12 October 1872– 26 August 1958) was an English composer.
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Rebirth Brass Band
The Rebirth Brass Band is a New Orleans brass band.
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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.
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").
Ride of the Valkyries
The "Ride of the Valkyries" (or Ritt der Walküren|) refers to the beginning of act 3 of Die Walküre, the second of the four epic music dramas constituting Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen.
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Roger Steptoe
Roger Steptoe (born 1953) is an English composer and pianist.
Roman tuba
The Roman tuba (plural: tubae), or trumpet was a military signal instrument used by the ancient Roman military and in religious rituals.
Romeo and Juliet (Prokofiev)
Romeo and Juliet (Romeo i Dzhulyetta), Op.
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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.
Saxhorn
The saxhorn is a family of valved brass instruments that have conical bores and deep cup-shaped mouthpieces.
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Saxophone
The saxophone (often referred to colloquially as the sax) is a type of single-reed woodwind instrument with a conical body, usually made of brass. Tuba and saxophone are orchestral instruments.
Sensemayá
Sensemayá is a composition for orchestra by the Mexican composer Silvestre Revueltas, which is based on the poem of the same title by the Cuban poet Nicolás Guillén.
Sergei Prokofiev
Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev (– 5 March 1953) was a Russian composer, pianist, and conductor who later worked in the Soviet Union.
Serpent (instrument)
The serpent is a low-pitched early wind instrument in the brass family developed in the Renaissance era. Tuba and serpent (instrument) are orchestral instruments.
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Silver
Silver is a chemical element; it has symbol Ag (derived from Proto-Indo-European ''*h₂erǵ'')) and atomic number 47. A soft, white, lustrous transition metal, it exhibits the highest electrical conductivity, thermal conductivity, and reflectivity of any metal. The metal is found in the Earth's crust in the pure, free elemental form ("native silver"), as an alloy with gold and other metals, and in minerals such as argentite and chlorargyrite.
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Silvestre Revueltas
Silvestre Revueltas Sánchez (December 31, 1899 – October 5, 1940) was a Mexican classical music composer, a violinist, and conductor.
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Sousaphone
The sousaphone is a brass musical instrument in the tuba family. Tuba and sousaphone are marching band instruments and tubas.
Stan Kenton
Stanley Newcomb Kenton (December 15, 1911 – August 25, 1979) was an American popular music and jazz artist.
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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Subcontrabass tuba
The subcontrabass tuba is a rare instrument of the tuba family built an octave or more below the modern contrabass tuba. Tuba and subcontrabass tuba are tubas.
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Symphonic Metamorphosis of Themes by Carl Maria von Weber is an orchestral work written by German composer Paul Hindemith in the United States in 1943.
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Symphonie fantastique
(Fantastic Symphony: Episode in the Life of an Artist … in Five Sections) Op. 14, is a programmatic symphony written by Hector Berlioz in 1830.
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Symphony No. 14 (Shostakovich)
The Symphony No.
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Symphony No. 2 (Brahms)
Symphony No.
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Symphony No. 2 (Mahler)
The Symphony No.
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Symphony No. 4 (Bruckner)
Anton Bruckner's Symphony No.
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Symphony No. 5 (Mahler)
The Symphony No.
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Symphony No. 5 (Prokofiev)
Sergei Prokofiev wrote his Symphony No.
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Symphony No. 6 (Mahler)
The Symphony No.
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Symphony No. 7 (Bruckner)
Anton Bruckner's Symphony No.
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Symphony No. 8 (Bruckner)
Anton Bruckner's Symphony No.
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Symphony No. 8 (Mahler)
The Symphony No.
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Tarnish
Tarnish is a thin layer of corrosion that forms over copper, brass, aluminum, magnesium, neodymium and other similar metals as their outermost layer undergoes a chemical reaction.
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The Planets
The Planets, Op.
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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Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks
Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks (Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche), Op. 28, is a tone poem written in 1894–95 by Richard Strauss.
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Transposing instrument
A transposing instrument is a musical instrument for which music notation is not written at concert pitch (concert pitch is the pitch on a non-transposing instrument such as the piano).
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Trumpet
The trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz ensembles. Tuba and trumpet are marching band instruments and orchestral instruments.
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Tuba Concerto (Higdon)
The Tuba Concerto is a composition for solo tuba and orchestra by the American composer Jennifer Higdon.
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Tuba Concerto (Vaughan Williams)
The Concerto in F Minor for Bass Tuba and Orchestra by British composer Ralph Vaughan Williams was written in 1954 for Philip Catelinet, principal tubist of the London Symphony Orchestra (LSO), who together gave the premiere on 13 June 1954 with Sir John Barbirolli conducting.
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Tuba Mirum (Paus)
Tuba Mirum is a concerto for tuba and orchestra by the Norwegian composer Marcus Paus.
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Tuba repertoire
This page lists classical pieces in the tuba repertoire, including solo works, concertenti and chamber music of which tuba plays a significant part.
Tubachristmas
TubaChristmas is a music concert held in cities worldwide that celebrates those who play, teach, and compose music for instruments in the tuba family, including the tuba, sousaphone, baritone, and euphonium, though some participants bring rarer members of the family such as the helicon, ophicleide, serpent and double bell euphonium. Tuba and Tubachristmas are tubas.
Václav František Červený
Václav František Červený (27 September 1819 – 19 January 1896) was a Czech brass instrument maker and inventor.
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Wagner tuba
The Wagner tuba is a four-valve brass instrument commissioned by and named after Richard Wagner.
Wilhelm Friedrich Wieprecht
Wilhelm Friedrich Wieprecht (8 August 18024 August 1872) was a German musical conductor, composer and inventor.
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William Kraft
William Kraft (September 6, 1923 – February 12, 2022) was an American composer, conductor, teacher, timpanist, and percussionist.
Wind instrument
A wind instrument is a musical instrument that contains some type of resonator (usually a tube) in which a column of air is set into vibration by the player blowing into (or over) a mouthpiece set at or near the end of the resonator.
Woodwind instrument
Woodwind instruments are a family of musical instruments within the greater category of wind 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.
Yamaha Corporation
is a Japanese musical instrument and audio equipment manufacturer.
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See also
Contrabass instruments
- Bass (sound)
- Bass amplifier
- Bass guitar
- Bass guitars
- Bass instrument
- Cimbasso
- Contrabass
- Contrabass bugle
- Contrabass clarinet
- Contrabass flute
- Contrabass guitar
- Contrabass oboe
- Contrabass sarrusophone
- Contrabass saxophone
- Contrabass trombone
- Contrabass trumpet
- Contrabassoon
- Contrabassophone
- Contraforte
- Diyingehu
- Double bass
- Double basses
- Guitarrón mexicano
- Hyperbass flute
- Marímbula
- Octobass
- Pedal keyboard
- Reed contrabass
- Subcontrabass flute
- Subcontrabass saxophone
- Tololoche
- Triple contrabass viol
- Tuba
- Tubax
- Violone
- Washtub bass
German musical instruments
- Akkordolia
- Appalachian dulcimer
- Belloneon
- Bladder fiddle
- Bock (bagpipe)
- Chemnitzer concertina
- Cythara
- Euphonium
- French horn
- German horn
- Glockenspiel
- Hammered dulcimer
- Harmonica
- Huemmelchen
- Hummel (instrument)
- Hurdy-gurdy
- Keyboard glockenspiel
- List of heaviest bells
- Lute guitar
- Lyre
- Mandolin
- Marktsackpfeife
- Martinshorn
- Ocarina
- Octavin
- Parsifal bell
- Schäferpfeife
- Scheitholt
- Schrammel accordion
- Stoessel lute
- Tuba
- Waldzither
- Zither
Marching band instruments
- Baritone horn
- Contrabass bugle
- Euphonium
- Fife (instrument)
- Marching brass
- Marching percussion
- Mellophone
- Sousaphone
- Trombone
- Trumpet
- Tuba
- Valve trombone
Orchestral instruments
- Alto trombone
- Bass trombone
- Bassoon
- Celesta
- Cimbasso
- Clarinet
- Colascione
- Contra-alto clarinet
- Contrabass trombone
- Contrabassoon
- Cor anglais
- Fortepiano
- French horn
- Guitar
- Harp
- Lute
- Mandolin
- Natural horn
- Natural trumpet
- Oboe
- Organ (music)
- Pedal harp
- Piano
- Pipe organ
- Saxophone
- Serpent (instrument)
- String section
- Theorbo
- Timpani
- Trombone
- Trumpet
- Tuba
- Western concert flute
Tubas
- Contrabass bugle
- Double bell euphonium
- Euphonium
- Euphonium repertoire
- Sousaphone
- Subcontrabass tuba
- Tuba
- Tubachristmas
- Tubists
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuba
Also known as Bass Tuba, Bombardon, Bombardone, Brass bass, Contrabass tuba, E-flat tuba, Jazz tuba.
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