MUSI 1F10 Study Guide - Final Guide: Double Reed, Unpitched Percussion Instrument, French Horn
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Properties of sound include pitch, duration, volume and timbre or tone colour. Musical timber: tone colour, sound quality, determined by size, shape, proportions of an instrument. Instrument: mechanism that generates musical vibrations and transmits them into air. Voice as instrument: voices range from highest to lowest: soprano, mezzo-soprano, alto for female voices, tenor, baritone, bass for male voices, human voice: vibrato: slight and rapid variations in pitch. The world instrument classification: aerophones (flutes or horns), chordophones (violins), membranophones (drums) idiophones (bells) Strings instruments (chordophones) are sounded by bowing and plucking: bowed strings: violin, viola, cello, and double bass. Played legato (smoothly, connected) and staccato (notes short, detached: plucked strings include harp and guitar. Woodwind instruments (aerophones: sound produced by air, finger holes changes pitch, flute: blow across a mouth hole, oboe and bassoon: mouthpiece with a double reed, clarinet and saxophone: single-reed mouthpiece.
