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Vladislav Mikhailovitch Blazhevich [n 1], (3 August 1881 – 10 April 1942) was a Soviet-era Russian composer, conductor, trombonist, and pedagogue. [1] A highly skilled trombonist, euphonist and tubist, Blazhevich played in various orchestras and bands and was a professor of trombone at Moscow Conservatory.
' tenor-bass trombone '), a B ♭ tenor trombone built with the wider bore and larger bell of a bass trombone that Sattler had earlier invented in 1821. Sattler's valve attachment added about 3 feet (0.9 m) of tubing to lower the fundamental pitch from B ♭ to F, controlled by a rotary valve, and is essentially unchanged in modern instruments.
Renaissance instrument, ancestor of the trombone. Medieval variant was clarion or slide trumpet. Circa 1522-25, Portugul, African-heritage musicians in Portugal playing shawms and a sackbut. A forerunner of the sackbut-trombone was the buisine with an s-curve. Shawm [70] piccolo oboe or musette. oboe Double-reed instruments.
The valve trombone emerged concurrently with the invention of valves in the early 19th century. Most early instruments retained the shape and form of the slide trombone, employing three valves with the tubing arranged in place of the slide; others used the new valve mechanism as an opportunity to explore different configurations while retaining the overall cylindrical bore and bell profile.
The contrabass trombone (German: Kontrabassposaune, Italian: trombone contrabbasso) is the lowest-pitched instrument in the trombone family of brass instruments.While modern instruments are pitched in 12 ft (12 ′) F with a single slide, the first practical contrabass trombones appeared in the mid-19th century built in 18 ′ B♭ an octave below the tenor trombone with a double slide.
The clavichord is an example of a period instrument.. In the historically informed performance movement, musicians perform classical music using restored or replicated versions of the instruments for which it was originally written.
Brian Boru bagpipes, invented by Henry Starck, perhaps inspired by the Great Irish Warpipes, and based on great Highland bagpipe but with a keyed chanter to extend the range and add chromatic notes. Electronic bagpipes are electronic instruments with a touch-sensitive "chanter" which senses finger position and modifies its tone accordingly ...
The alto trombone appears in the earliest written music for trombone, where composers wrote alto, tenor, and bass parts to bolster the corresponding voices in church liturgical music. [1] Although the parts were notated in alto, tenor and bass clefs, historically the clef has not always been a reliable indicator of which type of trombone was ...