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Instruments (REACH) Flashcards

Notable phrases/history of specific instruments.

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Instrument featured in Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons:

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Violin

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Featured in Bach’s Sonatas and Partitas for this instrument:

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Violin

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Featured in Don Quixote by Richard Strauss:

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Viola

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Featured in J.S. Bach’s Six Suites for this instrument:

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Cello

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Instrument (section of this instrument) featured at the beginning of the overture to Rossini’s William Tell:

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Cello

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Instrument played by Niccolò Paganini, Yehudi Menuhin, David Oistrakh, Itzhak Perlman:

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Violin

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Instrument played by Pablo Casals, Mstislav Rostropovich, Jacqueline Du Pré, Yo-Yo Ma

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Cello

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Instrument played by Paul Hindemith, William Primrose

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Viola

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Instrument featured in Saint-Saëns’s “The Swan”:

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Cello

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Instrument featured in Saint-Saëns’s “The Elephant”

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Double Bass

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Instrument that can be used with “German” (underhand) and “French” (overhand) bow holds:

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Double Bass

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Instrument featured in many works by Karl Ditters von Dittersdorf:

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Double Bass (Dittersdorf composed for other instruments as well but only his double bass compositions are of any significance)

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Instrument played by Domenico Dragonetti, Giovanni Bottesini, Serge Koussevitzky:

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Double Bass

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Instrument first featured with the melody in Ravel’s Boléro:

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Flute

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Instrument featured in Tchaikovsky’s “Les Mirlitons” from The Nutcracker:

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Flute

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Featured in Mozart’s Concerto in A major for this instrument:

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Clarinet

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Instrument featured with the melody second in Ravel’s Boléro:

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Clarinet

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Instrument representing the duck in Prokoviev’s Peter and the Wolf:

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Oboe

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Instrument representing the cat in Prokoviev’s Peter and the Wolf:

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Clarinet

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Instrument representing the bird in Prokoviev’s Peter and the Wolf:

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Flute

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