Identifier: orchestraitsinst00sing (find matches)
Title: The orchestra and its instruments
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Singleton, Esther, d. 1930
Subjects: Orchestra Musical instruments
Publisher: New York : The Symphony society of New York
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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Requiem he calls for twobasset-horns. BASS-CLARINET This instrument is made like the ordinary clarinetonly the bell points upward and outward somethingafter the fashion of a big dipper. It is a slow-speakingand hollow-toned instrument. Wagner uses it a greatdeal. Liszt has a good part for it in his Mazeppa;and it is conspicuous in the Danse de la Fee Dragee inTschaikowskys Nut-cracker Suite and also in the DonQuixote Variations by Strauss. The bass-clarinet is doubled by the contrabassclarinet. The contrabass clarinet is an octave below thebass-clarinet. The tube is partly conical and partlycylindrical. It is over ten feet long, and ends in a bigmetal bell turned upward like that of the bass-clarinet.It has thirteen keys and rings. It stands in the keyof B-flat. The instrument is also called pedal clarinet.Its middle and upper registers are reedy, somethinglike the ordinary clarinet tones, and the lower registersare deep rumbles. It might be described as a rival tothe double-bassoon.
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DOUBLE-BASS CLARINETSYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NEW YORK Richard Kohl CHAPTER VI THE BRASSWIND FAMILY The born; the trumpet; the trombone; tbe bass tuba.THE HORN OOK at the golden horn with its open bellgleaming like a big yellow flower!<sad First notice the large bell that spreads out to a diameter of about twelve inches. Then noticethat there is a tube that holds the funnel-shapedmouthpiece. If this long brass tube were straight-ened out it would be over seven feet long! This instrument is nothing but a long tube spirallycoiled and ending in a bell. The horn is very old. It is depicted in painting andsculpture in the monuments of Egypt, Assyria andIndia. It may even be the oldest of all instruments;for it was easier to blow through the horn, or the tusk,of an animal than to cut a reed, or stretch a string. At any rate, the instrument is derived from the horn,or tusk, of an animal in the small end of which peoplesoon had the idea of placing a mouthpiece for conven-ience. Even in the Middl

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