MUS 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Double Reed, Cor Anglais, Piccolo
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Double reed oboe the reed vibrates when you blow into the reed. The flute and piccolo (small in italian) are held horizontally and have no reed. The piccolo is the smallest instrument in the orchestra and is shrill and high. The pitch depends on the length of the vibrating body, width, tension, density, and vibration. The oboe has an intense sound and is responsible for tuning the orchestra to the a key. The english horn is bigger and lower than the oboe and warmer sounding. Clarinet liquid, wide range, used in jazz. Saxophone woodwind and brass, there is a family of saxophones, single reed, band instrument used in the late 1800s. Recorder was a family with different sizes and ranges. Recorders were held vertically at first, but during the baroque period, they were held horizontally and made out of metal rather than wood. Woodwind quintet flute, clarinet, oboe, bassoon, horn.
