When.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Rita Payés - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rita_Payés

    In July 2022, Payés and her band played at Jazzclub Trier. The newspaper Volksfreund, titling "Heartache can be so fine", called her voice "phantastic", between ingratiation, aggression and infinite sadness. [19] In August, Payés met WDR Big Band for two concerts titled The Spanish Trombone in Cologne.

  3. Instrumental idiom - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrumental_idiom

    The analogy is with linguistic idiomaticness, that is, form or structure peculiar to one language but not another. [1] For example, the trombone is played with a slide, making it one of the few wind instruments capable of glissando or sliding. However, pitches are different harmonics from the harmonic series on different slide positions. Thus ...

  4. Trombone - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trombone

    The trombone can be found in symphony orchestras, concert bands, big bands, marching bands, military bands, brass bands, and brass choirs. In chamber music, it is used in brass quintets, quartets, and trios, and also in trombone groups ranging from trios to choirs. A trombone choir can vary in size from five to twenty or more members.

  5. Valve trombone - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valve_trombone

    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.

  6. Banda music - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banda_music

    Banda is a subgenre of regional Mexican music and type of ensemble in which wind (mostly brass) and percussion instruments are performed.. The history of banda music in Mexico dates from the middle of the 19th century with the arrival of piston brass instruments, when community musicians tried to imitate military bands.

  7. Achilles Liarmakopoulos - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achilles_Liarmakopoulos

    In December 2010, Liarmakopoulos won the position of principal trombone of the Greek Radio Symphony Orchestra, where he played for one season before joining the Canadian Brass. He has also performed with the Malaysian Philharmonic , Jacksonville Symphony , and European Union Youth Orchestra .

  8. List of transposing instruments - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_transposing...

    Since they are seldom played in concert with other instruments and carillonneurs need standardized sheet music, carillons often transpose to a variety of keys—whichever is advantageous for the particular installation; many transposing carillons weigh little, have many bells, or were constructed on limited funds. [2]

  9. J. J. Johnson - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._J._Johnson

    Johnson's work in the 1940s and 1950s demonstrated that the slide trombone could be played in the bebop style; as trombonist Steve Turre has summarized, "J. J. did for the trombone what Charlie Parker did for the saxophone. And all of us that are playing today wouldn't be playing the way we're playing if it wasn't for what he did.