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Chamber music is a form of classical music that is composed for a small group of instruments—traditionally a group that could fit in a palace chamber or a large room. Most broadly, it includes any art music that is performed by a small number of performers, with one performer to a part (in contrast to orchestral music, in which each string ...
The bulk of music written for the musette is not solo music; duos are the most popular form, followed by trio-sonatas. Much of the music available for the instrument was described as suitable for musette, hurdy-gurdy, recorder or transverse flute; or for all these plus oboe or violin. Modern editions, usually for recorder, give people the ...
The instrument is used to provide rhythms for vocal music and dance music. It is often combined with instruments such as duduki , buzika panduri , and salamuri . The diplipito is generally played by males, and plays an important role in Georgian folk ensembles.
Trio sonata – Form of sonata for two melodic instruments and basso continuo. Suite – Set of instrumental compositions, typically in dance form, played in a sequence. Toccata – Piece typically for a keyboard or plucked string instrument, characterized by fast-moving or virtuosic passages.
The term sonata da camera was originally used in its literal meaning of "chamber music", but later came to be used figuratively to contrast this genre of composition with the sonata da chiesa, which literally meant "church music", but generally comprised a suite of four movements with tempos following a largo–allegro–largo–allegro pattern.
The saxophone is used in a wide range of musical styles including classical music (such as concert bands, chamber music, solo repertoire, and occasionally orchestras), military bands, marching bands, jazz (such as big bands and jazz combos), and contemporary music. The saxophone is also used as a solo and melody instrument or as a member of a ...
Stravinsky in 1921. The Octet for wind instruments is a chamber music composition by Igor Stravinsky, completed in 1923.. Stravinsky’s Octet is scored for an unusual combination of woodwind and brass instruments: flute, clarinet in B ♭ and A, two bassoons, trumpet in C, trumpet in A, tenor trombone, and bass trombone.
The earliest documented example of the English word 'consort' in a musical sense is in George Gascoigne’s The Princelye Pleasures (1576). [1] Only from the mid-17th century has there been a clear distinction made between a ‘whole’, or ‘closed’ consort, that is, all instruments of the same family (for example, a set of viols played together) and a ‘mixed’, or ‘broken’ consort ...