The history of the bugle is usually traced to the Seven Years’ War (1756–63), when the semicircular metal hunting horn came into use on the battlefield. It settled down as a single loop, pitched in C or B flat around 1800, while a two-loop version developed later in the nineteenth century following the Crimean War (1853–56). This instrument was ...
The invention of valves meant that brass instruments could now explore the bass register, and soon after 1835 bass tubas started being manufactured in Germany. Essentially a keyed bugle by descent, the bass tuba (confusingly, the name tuba comes from the Latin word for trumpet) has a very wide conical bore and as a result requires a good ...
Bugle Best known in its military guise, the bugle is one of the simplest of brass instruments in terms of construction, but it is very difficult to play. The single tube of metal has no valves to help create different notes, so players have to do all the work by changing their embouchure – a combination of the ...
pitch and enabling brass instruments’ ‘missing notes’ to be filled in. An alternative way of filling in these notes had been tried earlier using keys, resulting in the keyed bugle, the serpent and the ophicleide, which were found in wind bands and occasionally in the orchestra of the 1820s and 1830s. Valved trumpets and horns began to appear ...
post horn, it became a valved instrument in France in the late 1820s. It apparently reached Britain in the 1830s, where its bright sound soon displaced the keyed bugle from amateur wind bands. Most often to be heard as a brass band instrument, it did make occasional appearances in the orchestra (it was more popular with French composers), ...
A musical ensemble is a group of two or more musicians who have come together to play music. In theory, an ensemble could contain any number of instruments in any combination, but in practice, certain combinations just don’t work very well, either for musical reasons or because of the sheer practicality of getting particular instruments and players ...
The flugelhorn developed from the bugle, a signalling horn used in the Middle Ages and made out of bull or ox horn. This developed into a large, semicircular hunting horn made of brass or silver that was used by the military during the Seven Years’ War (1756–63). History Wrapping the horn around itself once, so the bell pointed ...
The flugelhorn (or flügelhorn: Flügel means ‘wing’ in German) is a cornet-like valved brass instrument, a member of the bugle family. It has a conical bore and three valves; in Britain these are invariably piston valves, but German and Austrian ones have rotary valves. The flugelhorn’s ancestor was a type of semicircular hunting horn carried by the hunt-master who ...
, the ophicleide was a French invention. Although the name is intended to mean ‘keyed serpent’, the instrument is not a serpent, but rather a development of the keyed bugle, undertaken by Halary in Paris. The instrument comes in various sizes with various ranges, but all built to the same pattern. Built in a tight U-shape, the ...
The tuba is essentially a large, valved bugle, designed to take the bass part in an orchestra or band. Like the trumpet, it is sounded by buzzing the lips into a mouthpiece. It is conically bored, like the horn, and consequently has a smooth, velvety sound. History The tuba is a youngster among brass instruments; ...
Benin, which range up to alphorn-length, the lur-like ‘C’-curved kombu and ‘S’-curved narsiga of India, the short signal horn of English foxhunters, the coiled military signalling bugle, and the whole range of trumpets and other orchestral brass. Introduction | Brass Instruments Instruments | Cornett | Brass ...
tuned percussion instrument in the twentieth century, the standard instrument to learn on, with a wide orchestral repertory. Styles & Forms | Late Romantic | Classical Instruments | Bugle | Late Romantic | Classical ...
approaching and the others leave Carmen alone. José is jealous that she danced for the officers, since she should dance only for him. As she dances they hear the bugle calling the soldiers back to barracks. She is furious when he starts to go and he tries to calm her by telling how he cherished her flower when in prison. ...
Benny Goodman was the first of the great bandleader virtuosos of the 1930s to achieve global success. Through a combination of personal connections, nerve, enormous talent and sheer luck, he parlayed a sequence of opportunities in 1934–35 into a payoff that changed American music. After forming his first band in New York in 1934, he won a ...
Charlie Christian was the last great figure to emerge from the jazz scene of the 1930s. He not only brought a perfectly formed approach to his music, but also an entirely new musical platform – the electric guitar. His career in the big time was brief, but Christian was a lighthouse whose beam still illuminates anyone with serious intentions ...
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