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J. S. Bach, for example, calls for a trumpet in B ♭ in his Cantatas Nos. 5 and 90, trumpets in E ♭ in the first version of his Magnificat and, most famously, the solo trumpet in high F in his Brandenburg Concerto No. 2. In the 18th century various attempts were made to overcome the limitations in the notes available to natural trumpets.
Cat Anderson was a trumpet player who was known for the ability to play extremely high with an even more extreme volume, who played with Duke Ellington's Big Band. Maynard Ferguson came to prominence playing in Stan Kenton's orchestra, before forming his own band in 1957. He was noted for being able to play accurately in a remarkably high ...
The piccolo trumpet is the smallest member of the trumpet family, pitched one octave higher than the standard B ♭ trumpet. Most piccolo trumpets are built to play in either B ♭ or A, using a separate leadpipe for each key. The tubing in the B ♭ piccolo trumpet is one-half the length of that in a standard B ♭ trumpet. Piccolo trumpets in ...
At 9, he won a state trumpet contest, at 13, he joined a multi-state all-star band and, at 14, he auditioned for Tommy Dorsey but was not hired. He started a quartet called the Blue Notes that performed at local dances. [4] Before graduating from high school, he was hired to go on the road with the Ted Fio Rito Orchestra. [4]
The highest note in the concerto is high concert D ♭, or high E ♭ on a B ♭ trumpet, or a high B ♭ on E ♭ trumpet for which it was written. Like Haydn, Austrian composer Johann Nepomuk Hummel wrote his Trumpet Concerto for Anton Weidinger. It was written and performed in 1803 to mark his entrance into the Esterházy court orchestra in ...
Very few people have the range to hit that high E flat. If the highest note in "Into the Unknown" sounds familiar, it's because Idina Menzel already reaches it during the climax of "Let It Go ...
Singer-songwriter Joy Chapman, from Surrey, British Columbia, set a new Guinness World Record for the “lowest note ever sung by a female.”
Wayne Bergeron (born January 16, 1958) is an American trumpeter.. Bergeron rose to prominence as a member of Maynard Ferguson's band in the 1980s. [1] Since then, he has worked on over 500 TV and motion picture soundtracks. [1]