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“The thunder of the guns swells to a single heavy roar and then breaks up again into separate explosions. The dry bursts of the machine-guns rattle. Above us the air teems with invisible swift movement, with howls, pipings, and hisses.

During a marriage, it is said that it is used to declare to the heavens and underworld, that the two consenting couples are ready to be one. I believe this was more symbolic to the relatives who has attended the wedding, but in the “spiritual world”, the horn puts a stamp on the marriage. In the case of a funeral, the procession usually takes 3 days and sometimes longer. The Mien culture have their own “way to get to heaven” and it involves the “tchaong”. The tchaong is used during a shaman’s funeral procession and used to open the doors to heaven. The shaman does his chants to the heavens and ever-so-often, he pulls the horn and blows it loudly. The shaman lets out a bellowing blow that last for 20-30 seconds and varying rates. Just as he abruptly stops to blow the horn, he gets back into his chants and proceeds the funeral.

There was a lot of singing and shouting done in these secret meeting places. Shouting had two basic forms regular shouting and ring shouting. The “ring shout” a ritualized group activity clearly of African origin, which gained momentum in praise houses. Shouting is experienced when the Holy Spirit fills and empowers the worshipers so that they are unable to remain still. Much like today, when the Holy Spirit takes over your body, you can’t hold still and the Holy Spirit jumps from one person to

Music has always been an important part of American society and it was no different during the Civil War. Instruments such as bugles, drums, and fifes were used for marching orders, signals,to tell the soldiers to wake up, eat meals, and perform camp chores.Music was also a way to communicate at long distances. A tune called "Cease Fire" that fifers and drummers would play to tell the soldiers to stop firing at the end of a battle while a tune called "Parley" was used to signal to the enemy that a surrender or peace talk was desired. Drummers would play beatings and say turn right or turn left as well as to load and fire their muskets. Unfortunately, it was difficult for a soldier to hold a fife because it required two hands. Instead, cavalry

Trumpets have had a great deal of uses throughout

The fife is a flute-like instrument. It was used because it has a very high range which allows its sound to soar over the noises of battle. Not

“During the run of an opera there was a struggle every night between Farinelli and a famous player on the trumpet [...] After severally swelling a note in which each manifested the power of his lungs and tried to rival the other in brilliancy and force, they had both a swell and shake together, by thirds, which was continued so long [...] that both seemed exhausted; and, in fact, the trumpeter, wholly spent, gave it up, thinking, however, his antagonist as much tired as himself [...]; when Farinelli, with a smile on his countenance, showing that he had only been sporting with him all that time, broke out all at once in the same breath, with fresh vigor, and not only swelled and shook the note, but ran the most rapid and difficult divisions and was at last silenced only by the acclamations of the audience. From this period may be dated the superiority which he ever maintained over all his contemporaries.”

The bells come in a choice of three tapers and in rose or yellow brass. You can even opt for a vertical stop on the third valve tuning slide instead of the standard horizontal.In addition to these options, the horns come with both rounded or elliptical main slides and two sets of valve springs of differing strengths come as standard equipment. These add two more ways you can alter the instrument to suit your preferences on top of the built-in options. For a first professional series, Jupiter has given the player a wealth of choices.” “My instrument is a 180 model Stradivarius that I acquired new in '72. It is the most popular Bach model, with a silver plate finish, ML bore, and a #37 bell. While not of Mount Vernon vintage, it is old enough to make a comparison with its current counterpart interesting and informative. It is a high-mileage horn, but has been lovingly (some say obsessively) cared for. It still plays beautifully and sounds wonderful. It was going to be a hard horn to beat, especially with only me as judge and jury.” These two quotes give me an insight of the quality of the two trumpets. The Jupiter has very nice quality for the given price. The Bach is one of the most high quality horns so the price is much

The trombone in itself has been around for over 600 years. Trombones were introduced to the orchestra in the 18th century. Trombones were found in churches during this time because they were known for their vocal support. This tradition of using trombones in a church setting continued well into the mid-19th century. Fanny Mendelsson-Hensel’s Oratorio is an example of the trombone use, used in the early years of the trombone. During the mid-19th century, bell-size became wider as a larger, louder sound was introduced for the performance in bands. This was also used to generate louder volume in the orchestra. By the mid-19th century the role of the trombone in band and classical music was in place. It was not until the

Many of the musicians double as professors at different universities; therefore, their knowledge of the history of brass instruments is quite extensive. First, they played different sized conch shells, which is the first horns that formed into the song Happy Birthday.They then played many of the earliest models of the trumpet, which had no valves, and the trombone, that required one to move their whole body back and forth in order to hit different notes. Additionally, the Saint Louis Brass had a clear water hose with a funnel at the end of it as a horn. I was surprised that it made a beautiful sounds, even hitting different notes. After separately playing each peculiar instruments, they came together to play an adorable little diddy. As a future teach and lover of learning, I thoroughly enjoyed this section of their

The trumpet has been a key instrument in Jazz for a very long time. It is actually one of more familiar sounds of jazz music. When people hear of jazz, most of time they think of the trumpet. The sound of the trumpet is loud and very energetic, but can also produce beautiful melodies. In the early days the trumpet was used in marching bands in New Orleans.

commonly linked to that of Fats Navarro’s, a famous trumpet player in that time. Clifford Brown

Smith, Mark S. “Setting and Rhetoric in Psalm 23,” Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 41, (June 1988): 61-66.

The water-drum and cow-horn rattle provide the percussions for most dance songs and many ceremonies while the fluted is to produce some sort of a melody. The water drum is a small, watertight keg, 12 to 15 centimeters in diameter, covered with a soft, tanned skin held in place by a hoop. A small amount of water is always kept in the drum; before playing, the head is thoroughly soaked and pulled tight until the specific high, pinging sound is achieved when the instrument is struck with a small, wooden beater. The cow-horn rattle is made from a pointed piece of cow horn attached to a wooden handle; the horn contains steel pellets and is closed at the top by a wooden disc. The use of the turtle-shell rattle, with its symbolic links to Iroquois cosmology, and the Gourd rattles are used only in agricultural and medicine rites.

According to Edward Tarr in his book titled, “The Trumpet,” he explains that the use of an instrument called a “trumpa” was used and was locally referred to as a “tubae.” “As Richard was pausing in Sicily before setting out for Palestine, a new kind of instrument – the trumpa – was demonstrated to him. Roger of Wendover (d. 1236) wrote about ‘tubae called the trumpae’. This instrument was mentioned for the first time around the year 1180 in