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The contrabass serpent, nicknamed the anaconda and built in 16′ C one octave below the serpent, was an English invention of the mid-19th century with no historical repertoire. [18] The prototype instrument was built c. 1840 by Joseph and Richard Wood in Huddersfield as a double-sized English military serpent, and survives in the University of ...
One of the last great ophicleide players was the English musician Sam Hughes. There have been claims that the instrument was a direct ancestor of the saxophone: supposedly Adolphe Sax, while repairing an ophicleide, put a woodwind mouthpiece on the instrument and liked the sound, allegedly leading Sax to design and create a purpose-built ...
Clifford James "Cliff" Bevan (1934 – 2024) was an English tubist, trombonist, organologist, music historian, composer and publisher. [1] He specialised in historically informed performance, including historical low brass instruments such as the ophicleide, cimbasso and serpent.
It was a keyed instrument (unlike the serpent), but without valves (unlike the euphonium). Hughes began his career playing the ophicleide in one of the newly popular brass bands, the Cyfarthfa Brass Band in Merthyr Tydfil, Wales. He played with the band from the mid-1850s to about 1860.
Recordings of orchestral excerpts by Jack Adler-McKean, including an early cimbasso and a B♭ Verdi cimbasso by Orsi built c. 1902–1918, as well as serpent, ophicleide and other early tubas; Excerpts of Verdi's Nabbucco arranged for four cimbassi (three in F by Červený, one custom-built in low B♭), performed by German tubist Daniel Ridder
This is not to say that composers, then and now, valued the euphonium only for its lyrical capabilities. Indeed, examination of a large body of concert band literature reveals that the euphonium functions as a jack of all trades, at times doubling the tuba in octaves, at times adding warmth to the trombone section, at times adding depth to a horn line, and at times adding strength to rapid ...
It was a joyful unforgettable moment the Sinclair family has been waiting for, when their 10-month-old baby Charlie heard for the very first time in her life.
The idée fixe theme, which recurs in various guises in each of the five movements. The Symphonie fantastique is a piece of programme music that tells the story of a gifted artist who, in the depths of hopelessness and despair because of his unrequited love for a woman, has poisoned himself with opium.