Ensembles List -- Instrument List

Question 1

A large ensemble
Definition: A large ensemble made up of wind, string, percussion, and brass instruments arranged to perform classical music
Instruments: Violin, viola, bass, oboe, trumpet and percussion instruments

Answer 1

Symphony Orchestra

Question 2

A large ensemble
Definition: A large assembly of brass, woodwind and percussion players who perform in a concert hall; plays more recent music than an orchestra; It has about 40 - 80 musicians, and the woodwind section is thought to be the primary component of its ensembles.
Parts: Woodwinds - Piccolo, flute, oboe, English horn, bassoon, clarinet, saxophone, Brasswinds - trumpet, cornet, Flugelhorn, French horn, trombone, euphonium, tuba, Percussion (non-pitched) - bass drum, snare drum, cymbals, triangle, tambourine, wood block, bongos, claves, gong, tam-tam, (pitched percussion) - timpani, glockenspiel, xylophone, marimba, vibraphone, chimes

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Concert Band/Wind Ensemble

Question 3

A large ensemble
A kind of musical ensemble correlated with playing jazz music which became prominent in the Swing Era from the early 1930s to the end of the 1940s; Usually consists of about 12 - 25 musicians and has trumpets, trombones, saxophones, and a percussion section

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Jazz “Big Band”

Question 4

A large ensemble
A grouping of like instruments creating a performance ensemble; ordinarily a mix of trumpets, horns, trombones, tubas, and euphoniums; can be any size with a minimum being six performers

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Brass Choir

Question 5

A large ensemble
Definition: A group singing without instrumental accompaniment
Parts: Soprano, alto, tenor, baritone, and base

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A Cappella Choir (men’s and women’s voice parts)

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Small ensemble; An arrangement for five instruments: two trumpets, a horn, a trombone, and tuba or bass trombone

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Brass Quintet

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Small ensemble; A musical composition usually in a few movements and ordinarily made up of five instruments: flute, oboe, clarinet, French horn, and bassoon

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Woodwind Quintet

Question 8

Small ensemble; A musical ensemble consisting of four string instruments: two violins, a viola, and a cello

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String Quartet

Question 9

Small ensemble; An arrangement for the piano and two other instruments, most commonly the violin and cello

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Piano Trio

Question 10

Section: Strings

a bass instrument of the violin family, held upright on the floor between the legs of the seated player

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Cello

Question 11

Section: Strings

the largest and lowest-pitched of the stringed instruments that is tuned in fourths

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Double Bass

Question 12

Section: Strings
a musical instrument, roughly triangular in shape, consisting of a frame supporting a graduated series of parallel strings, played by plucking with the fingers

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Harp

Question 13

Section: Strings

an instrument of the violin family, larger than the violin and tuned a fifth lower

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Viola

Question 14

Section: Strings

a stringed musical instrument of treble pitch, played with a horsehair bow

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Violin

Question 15

a brass instrument with a coiled tube, valves, and a wide bell, developed from the simple hunting horn in the 17th century

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French Horn

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a large brass wind instrument with straight tubing in three sections, ending in a bell over the player’s left shoulder, different fundamental notes being made using a forward-pointing extendable slide

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Trombone

Question 17

a brass musical instrument with a flared bell and a bright, penetrating tone

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Trumpet

Question 18

a large brass wind instrument of bass pitch, with three to six valves and a broad bell typically facing upward

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Tuba

Question 19

Section: Percussion

a large, two-headed drum that has a low booming sound

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Bass Drum

Question 20

Section: Percussion
small concave pieces of wood, ivory, or plastic, joined in pairs by a cord and clicked together by the fingers as a rhythmic accompaniment to Spanish dancing

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Castanets

Question 21

Section: Percussion
set of stationary bells tuned in a musical series, traditionally in a diatonic sequence (seven-note scale) plus a few accidentals (sharps and flats)

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Chimes

Question 22

percussion instrument consisting of a circular flat or concave metal plate that is struck with a drumstick or is used in pairs struck glancingly together

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Cymbals

Question 23

a musical percussion instrument having a set of tuned metal pieces mounted in a frame and struck with small hammers

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Glockenspiel

Question 24

Section: Percussion

a metal disk with a turned rim, giving a resonant note when struck

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Gong

Question 25

Section: Percussion
a musical instrument with a serrated surface that gives a rasping sound when scraped with a stick, originally made from an elongated gourd and used in Latin American music

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Guiro

Question 26

Section: Percussion
a small drum in the form of a short cylinder with a membrane at each end, the upper one being struck with hard sticks and the lower one fitted with snares

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Snare Drum

Question 27

a percussion instrument resembling a shallow drum with small metal disks in slots around the edge, played by being shaken or hit with the hand

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Tambourine

Question 28

Section: Percussion

kettledrums, especially when played by one musician in an orchestra

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Timpani

Question 29

a percussion instrument consisting of a steel rod bent into a triangle with one corner left open; It is suspended by a gut or nylon loop and struck with a steel rod

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Triangle

Question 30

Section: Percussion
a musical instrument played by striking a row of wooden bars of graduated length with one or more small wooden or plastic mallets

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Xylophone

Question 31

Section: Woodwinds

a large clarinet whose range is an octave below the B-flat clarinet

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Bass Clarinet

Question 32

Section: Woodwinds

a bass instrument of the oboe family with a double reed

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Bassoon

Question 33

a woodwind instrument with a single-reed mouthpiece, a cylindrical tube with a flared end, and holes stopped by keys

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Clarinet

Question 34

Section: Woodwinds

a bassoon that is larger and longer than the normal type and sounds an octave lower in pitch

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Contrabassoon

Question 35

a double-reed woodwind instrument resembling the oboe in design but having a longer tube and a range a fifth lower than that of the oboe

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English Horn

Question 36

Section: Woodwinds
a wind instrument made from a tube with holes along it that are stopped by the fingers or keys, held vertically or horizontally so that the player’s breath strikes a narrow edge

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Flute

Question 37

a woodwind instrument with a double-reed mouthpiece, a slender tubular body, and holes stopped by keys

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Oboe

Question 38

Section: Woodwinds

a small flute sounding an octave higher than the ordinary one

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Piccolo

Question 39

Section: Woodwinds

a member of a family of metal wind instruments with a single-reed mouthpiece, used especially in jazz and dance music

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Saxophone

Question 40

a keyboard instrument with horizontal strings which run perpendicular to the keyboard in a long tapering case, and are plucked by points of quill, leather, or plastic operated by depressing the keys

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Harpsichord

Question 41

Section: Keyboards
a wind instrument consisting of one or more scale-like rows of individual pipes of graded size which are made to sound by air under pressure directed from a wind-raising device and admitted to the pipes by means of valves operated from a keyboard

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Organ

Question 42

a keyboard musical instrument having wire strings that sound when struck by felt-covered hammers operated from a keyboard; contains 88 keys and has a compass of seven full octaves plus a few keys

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Piano