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This is a category for all transposing instruments that sound music written in the key of C in the key of B ♭, regardless of octave. Subcategories This category has only the following subcategory.
Trumpet Concerto No. 9 in B-flat Major Mr. Handel's Celebrated Water Piece, for trumpet and strings. Joseph Haydn, Trumpet Concerto in E flat major; Michael Haydn, Trumpet Concerto in C major, MH 60; Trumpet Concerto in D major, MH 104. Bernhard Heiden, Concerto Music for trumpet and orchestra; Hans Werner Henze, Requiem
Many transposing instruments are pitched in B-flat major, including the clarinet, trumpet, tenor saxophone, and soprano saxophone. As a result, B-flat major is one of the most popular keys for concert band compositions.
Flugelhorn excerpt B♭ trumpet playing the same excerpt as above The flugelhorn is a standard member of the British-style brass band , and it is also used frequently in jazz . It also appears occasionally in orchestral and concert band music.
Orchestral trumpet players are adept at transposing music at sight, frequently playing music written for the A, B ♭, D, E ♭, E, or F trumpet on the C trumpet or B ♭ trumpet. Piccolo trumpet in B ♭, with swappable leadpipes to tune the instrument to B ♭ (shorter) or A (longer) The smallest trumpets are referred to as piccolo trumpets.
B Flat notes. B ♭ (B-flat), or, in some European countries, B, is the eleventh step of the Western chromatic scale (starting from C).It lies a diatonic semitone above A and a chromatic semitone below B, [1] thus being enharmonic to A ♯, even though in some musical tunings, B ♭ will have a different sounding pitch than A ♯.
Pocket trumpet in B-flat, with a 5-inch (13 cm) standard size bell and medium-large bore. The pocket trumpet is a B♭ or C trumpet that is constructed with the tubing wound into a much smaller coil than a standard trumpet, generally with a smaller diameter bell.
The piccolo trumpet solo in the Beatles' "Penny Lane", which introduced the instrument to pop music, was played by David Mason. Paul McCartney was dissatisfied with the initial attempts at the song's instrumental fill (one of which is released on Anthology 2), and was inspired to use the instrument after seeing Mason's performance in a BBC television broadcast of the second Brandenburg ...