Brass

Ranging from playing pieces by J.S. Bach to pieces by Billy Joel, The Boston Brass is a brass quintet with a french horn, two trumpets, a tuba, and a trombone that recognizes works from many different genres in a concert, including Orchestra, Opera, Ballet, Jazz, Broadway, and more. Their concert Friday night, on September 15th in the Concert hall of the Forbes Center featured a wide variety of music that the group excelled at playing, including concert highlights of “Milonga del Angel” or “Gathering

The Dallas Brass is a brass ensemble that performed on September 24th, 2016 at Hart Middle School Auditorium. The members of this group are Luis Araya and Terry Sawchuk who play the (various) trumpets, Juan Berrios who plays the horn, alto horn, and the Flugelhorn, Paul Carlson and Ryan Christianson who play the tuba and trombone respectively, and Andres Crovetti who is the percussion section. Michael Levine is the created the group back in 1983 and was their trombone player before Ryan joined. The

My senior year of high school, my high brass director left on an extremely short notice, leaving our band one director short for the whole marching season. I cannot begin to describe the trials that we encountered as a band, specifically the high brass family. Not having our “band dad” with us took an excruciating toll that set the high brass back and ultimately the whole band. As a senior, it was my job to step up and facilitate my section since we did not have anyone else to guide us. I did my

This analysis will focus primarily on the compositions performed by the Canadian Brass. The quintet is internationally known for their excellence in performance as well as their style. The ensemble was formed during the 1970’s in Toronto, Canada by Tubist Charles Daellenbach and trombonist Gene Watts. Their style has a wide range which spans from trademark Baroque to Dixieland tunes as well as new compositions and arrangements created particularly for their style. They’ve been around for more than

In the second movement of his Music for Brass Quintet, Gunther Schuller utilizes unique articulations, rhythmic variance, and different combinations of mutes resulting in tension built from the swiftly changing textures. Throughout the movement Schuller takes advantage of brass instruments ability to double and triple tongue quickly. As seen in measure 3, he sets up the trumpet, horn, and trombone to tongue at different speeds while raising in dynamic. Due to the similar timbre of these instruments

Every brass instruments have mouthpieces, however there are different types and sizes of these which give different sounds. The mouthpiece is there to help your upper and lower lips vibrate when air passes between them. The different sizes of mouthpieces have their advantages and disadvantages, beginner students should use the mouthpiece that comes with the trumpet until their development changes. There are different mouthpiece rims and they all have different sounds to them. A wide rim gives an

math, Marketing, Band and Instrumental music, are important to students. An elective some students would like to add into school is a low brass marching band. Adding a low brass marching band into the school will give students the opportunity to show creativity, have more time to work on tone quality and more time to work on choreography. Being in a low brass marching band, one is going to have to know the choreography. Some of the choreography that can help students loosen up and gain muscle is

How have brass instruments have changed over time? Trumpets, French horns, trombones, and tubas are the four main instruments in the brass family. Each has changed dramatically and will continue to change. Brass instrument come in all varieties. All brass instruments are curved and twisted to allow for easier holding as well as playing. Brass instruments range in size from about six-and-a-half feet to 18 feet, normally. There have beens some brass instruments invented that use nearly 60 feet of

Destin Brass Products Co. June 26, 2010 CASE ANALYSIS OBJECTIVES The Destin Brass Products Company case analysis focuses on the current accounting practices utilized by the company and its effects on product pricing. Destin’s president, Roland Guidry, is concerned about the pump market competition dropping prices and his company’s ability to remain competitive, yet profitable; since, pumps are 55% of Destin’s revenues. At the same time, the flow controller market remains seemingly untouched

Destin Brass Products Destin Brass produces three products used for water purification systems: valves, pumps and flow controllers. They are seeing high competition in the pumps market while competitors are reducing the prices on pumps. Because they do not have any design advantages to their product, they feel they need to follow the market and lower their prices as well. A meeting was held to discuss the declining profits and a proposal to change their overhead allocation method was proposed