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    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

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    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

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    and also health, but brass instruments have changed the way we listen and play music. Although, brass has given a big impact in two genres, such as Jazz and Symphonic. In addition to the fact that music has always been important to society, instruments have evolved from wood to the metals we use today, and brass instruments made an impact on how most music is played, such as through the most famous genre, blues, pop and symphonic. This research will show how the brass instruments are made, how they

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    Golden brass instruments gleam in their plastic, paint-chipped cages. Drum sticks, long and thick, short and slim, are strewn across the brown speckled carpet. White brick walls surround me, enclosing the area. Curved rows of cheap plastic blue chairs sit centered toward Mr. Coppicus’ directing stand where sheet music litters the ground like confetti. Behind the chairs, lining the wall, are three long, but separate, counters. Tiny pieces of paper, abandoned gnawed pencils, and stray instrument parts

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    Concert Report Sample

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    Graduate Brass Quintet performed a piece named Misty. In this essay, I will share my personal experience of the concert and discuss the different elements of music seen in the different performances. The concert started with Tim Sanchez playing the Oxycotten on the Marimba. Not only was this instrument a first time experience for me but the dynamics

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    In the current time period, musicians have adapted to using modern instruments and reading off their own sheet music. It is straightforward to make a copy of a part for someone, or simple to order a piece offline. Back in the early 15th century, the Squarcialupi Codex was one of the many books that notated early music, a beautiful and vibrant book filled with music and gorgeous ornamental pictures. The sheer size of the codex made it possible for multiple musicians to read off of one single part

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    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

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    Musical instruments have played many major roles in helping with the construction of many societies around the world today. Many people do not realize what musical instruments have been responsible for and how they have helped shape the world today. There have been many instruments that have helped create and sculpt the world, but one instrument that I want to inform readers about is the trumpet and where it came from, as well as how it has changed over many years. The point that I am arguing

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    were practicing and tuning their instruments I am assuming. It was cool hearing all the different instruments at once hearing the different sounds it actually didn’t sound that bad. The strings were placed in the front the violins on the left, cellos and double bass for the audience view point. Brass performers were behind the strings also the harp. Then the percussion performers were all

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    Marching Band History

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    originated in the military as a small group but eventually became very successful and expanded to schools, also evolving instruments and creating different forms of bands. Music was needed and used in the military before they even created a band. When soldiers wanted a boost of excitement to help them succeed during war they would have people play upbeat music on their instruments. (U.S. Army 1,2). Most

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