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A fanfare trumpet, also called a herald trumpet, is a brass instrument similar to but longer than a regular trumpet (tubing is the same length as a regular Bb trumpet but not wrapped), capable of playing specially composed fanfares. Its extra length can also accommodate a small ceremonial banner that can be mounted on it.
The trumpet repertoire consists of solo literature and orchestral or, more commonly, band parts written for the trumpet.Tracings its origins to 1500 BC, the trumpet is a musical instrument with the highest register in the brass family.
The fanfare takes approximately 40 seconds to perform [2] and is one of Stravinsky's major miniatures. [1] The textures are canonic and recall Stravinsky's late twelve-tone technique . It is widely based on rhythmic patterns and the intervals between the two trumpets are brisk, atonal and uneven.
This combination of instruments gives the fanfare orchestra a sound that can be viewed as a halfway between that of a concert band and a brass band. In a fanfare orchestra, the most numerous brass instrument is the flugelhorn. In these ensembles, flugelhorns act as cornets would in a British-style brass band. Flugelhorn parts in a fanfare ...
An offstage instrument or choir part in classical music is a sound effect used in orchestral and opera which is created by having one or more instrumentalists (trumpet players, also called an "offstage trumpet call", horn players, woodwind players, percussionists, other instrumentalists) from a symphony orchestra or opera orchestra play a note, melody, or rhythm from behind the stage, or ...
Pastorale: for Trumpet, Trombone and Piano, (1996) Original version was the middle movement of Ballade, Pastorale and Dance for flute, horn, and piano; A Philharmonic Fanfare: for Trumpet, Horn, and Trombone, (1997) An Elizabethan Songbook: for Trumpet, Trombone and Piano, (1998) Original for mezzo-soprano, tenor, and piano
A fanfare has also been defined in The Golden Encyclopedia of Music as "a musical announcement played on brass instruments before the arrival of an important person", such as heralding the entrance of a monarch [3] (the term honors music for such announcements does not have the specific connotations of instrument or style that fanfare does).
The natural trumpets were not specified by the composer; indeed it may have been a bit early in the rediscovery of natural trumpet playing for it to be safe to do so. This technique had been used by the classical composers in horn section writing, to enable lines to be played outside the natural scale (e.g. 2 horns in C and 2 horns in D or E flat).