Monday, 28 November 2016

Hello everyone, in this post I'm going to post some facts about chamber music and orchestration.

Chamber Music

Chamber music is a piece of vocal or instrumental music written for a combined group of solo players to be performed in a small room. Each player has a part.

Chamber music is known by the number of players in the group:

Number of players
Duet
2
Trio
3
Quartet
4
Quintet
5
Sextet
6
Septet
7
 Octet
8









Orchestration

The symphony orchestra is made up of the four instrumental families:
a. Woodwind 
b. Brass 
c. Percussion 
d. String

The four families appear in the following downward order in the orchestral full score.

Woodwind
Piccolo
Flute
Oboe
Cor anglais
Clarinet
Bass clarinet
Bassoon
Double bassoon

Brass
Horn
Trumpet
Trombone
Tuba

Percussion
Timpani
Other percussion instruments

String
Violin
Viola
Cello
Double bass





That's all from this post, thank you for reading guys!


Note : the pictures are not mine, credits to respective owners 

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