THE BRASS INSTRUMENTS

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Trumpet

A trumpet is a musical instrument. It is the highest register in the brass family. Trumpets are among the oldest musical instruments,[1] dating back to at least 1500 BC. They are played by blowing air through closed lips, producing a "buzzing" sound that starts a standing wave vibration in the air column inside the instrument. Since the late 15th century they have primarily been constructed of brass tubing, usually bent twice into a rounded oblong shape.

There are several types of trumpet. The most common is a transposing instrument pitched in B♭ with a tubing length of about 148 cm. Earlier trumpets did not have valves, but modern instruments generally have either three piston valves or, more rarely, three rotary valves. Each valve increases the length of tubing when engaged, thereby lowering the pitch.

(Wikipedia)

Trumpet

Famous Classical Trumpet player, Maurice Andre; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXN4GAar4CI&safety_mode=true&persist_safety_mode=1&safe=active

Hoot the Owl and Winton Marsalis: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCSovBhdX1U&safety_mode=true&persist_safety_mode=1&safe=active

Winton Marsalis: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnpQZ_gGY68&safety_mode=true&persist_safety_mode=1&safe=active

Not Just trumpets: Marine Drum and Bugle Corps: http://

www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bSmonlY1YM&safety_mode=true&persist_safety_mode=1&safe=active

Chris Botti: My Funny Valentine: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M51UqyWpYko&safety_mode=true&persist_safety_mode=1&safe=active

French Horn

The leader of the brass section is the French horn. But when it was first made nobody used it indoors because it sound harsh. In France the nobility used the horn during hunts and made up special codes to signal each other. It was even used by the night watch to call when there was trouble.

Even though it is called the French horn it first began to be developed in Germany. It was completed as we know it today in France. So that's why we call it a French horn. Some French horns are really two horns in one. They have two sets of tubing. The player switches between the two sets of coiled tubing by working a valve with his left thumb. One set of tubing gives a mellow, rich, deep tone. And the other makes a higher, brighter sound.

Once the French horn became part of the orchestra its shape began to change. The tube got longer, the bell was made wider, and it got its crooks and valves. It is the only brass instrument with a funnel-shaped mouthpiece. If all of the tubing were uncoiled it would be over 20 feet long.

The valves of a French horn are rotary valves. When the player pushes down on a valve it pulls a string that opens or closes different valves. French horn players put their right hand inside the bell of the horn to adjust the tone.

(Oracle ThinkQuest)

French Horn

Classical Music on French Horn: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RadTrClPxxg&safety_mode=true&persist_safety_mode=1&safe=active

Seigfried’s Horn Call by Wagner: (fast forward through the first 45 seconds to get to the real horn playing) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MkMdlfl8Hg&safety_mode=true&persist_safety_mode=1&safe=active

Trombone:

The trombone is a musical instrument in the brass family. Like all brass instruments, sound is produced when the player’s vibrating lips (embouchure) cause the air column inside the instrument to vibrate. Nearly all trombones have a telescoping slide mechanism that varies the length of the instrument to change the pitch. Instead of a slide, the valve trombone has three valves like those on a trumpet. (Wikipedia)

Trombone

Trombone Shorty: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yRhacGLGEs&safety_mode=true&persist_safety_mode=1&safe=active

Carry On Wayward Son-Trombone Quartet: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJaX4ZpfULM&safety_mode=true&persist_safety_mode=1&safe=active

Trombone concerto: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJ_OgLevocg&safety_mode=true&persist_safety_mode=1&safe=active

Tuba: The tuba is the largest and lowest-

pitched brass instrument. Sound is produced by vibrating or "buzzing" the lips into a large cupped mouthpiece. It is one of the most recent additions to the modern symphony orchestra, first appearing in the mid-19th century, when it largely replaced the ophicleide.[1] Tuba is Latin for trumpet or horn.[2] The horn referred to would most likely resemble what is known as a baroque trumpet.

A person who plays the tuba is known as a tubaist or tubist.[3] In the United Kingdom a person who plays the tuba in an orchestra is known simply as a tuba player; in a brass band or military band they are known as a bass player. (Wikipedia)

Tuba

Canadian Brass: Tuba Tiger Rag http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04PWhO6wd2A&safety_mode=true&persist_safety_mode=1&safe=active

New York Philharmonic Tuba player demonstrating 3 tubas: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NU2X1QsClKA&safety_mode=true&persist_safety_mode=1&safe=active

Czardis on the tuba: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYOsNp4O7AU&safety_mode=true&persist_safety_mode=1&safe=active

Brass Quintet

Brass Quintets are made up of two trumpets, French Horn, Trombone and Tuba.

Bach Tocatta and Fugue in D minor: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPXJtFGO-iI&safety_mode=true&persist_safety_mode=1&safe=active

Canadian Brass/Fight of the Bumblebee: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZO5KTJTwhE&safety_mode=true&persist_safety_mode=1&safe=active

Baritone Horn/Euphonium The baritone horn is a low-pitched

brass instrument.[2] Baritone horn is a piston valve brass instrument with a predominantly cylindrical bore like the trumpet[3] and uses a wide-rimmed cup mouthpiece like that of its peers the trombone and euphonium, for like the trombone and the euphonium, the baritone horn is pitched in B♭ one octave below the B♭ trumpet.

Distinguishing the Baritone Horn from the Euphonium

4-valve continental baritone horn (center) Much more has been written about

distinguishing the baritone horn from the euphonium than ever needed to be written as the similarities of the two instruments overwhelmingly outweigh the differences in bore and conicality/cylindricity.

(Wikipedia)

Baritone Horn or Euphonium Baritone Horn solo (you do see the

performer after about 40 seconds) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmoILRqZ2Ks&safety_mode=true&persist_safety_mode=1&safe=active

Carnival of Venice: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aqw8v1ILB2g&safety_mode=true&persist_safety_mode=1&safe=active

Flugelhorn

The Flugelhorn is like a large trumpet with lower pitch and a mellow tone.

The tone is "fatter" and usually regarded as more "mellow" and "dark" than the trumpet or cornet. The sound of the flugelhorn has been described as halfway between a trumpet and a French horn, whereas the cornet's sound is halfway between a trumpet and a flugelhorn.[3]

The flugelhorn appears mainly in jazz, brass band music, and popular music, though it appears occasionally in orchestral music

Flugelhorn

Chuck Mangione/Feels So Good : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tU-paVqS6Xw&safety_mode=true&persist_safety_mode=1&safe=active

Randy Becker/Blue Moon: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6Sa2U89cdo&safety_mode=true&persist_safety_mode=1&safe=active