Tuba

The word tuba comes from the Latin word tuba. This Latin term was used to describe the roman trumpet. The serpent was invented in France by Edme Guillaume c. 1590s. The serpent had wooden, conical tubing and was 213cm long. The serpent had 6 finger holes and a cup mouthpiece. As years passed other instruments were created before the tuba one of these was the tuba curva. In 1791 in Paris a brass instrument called the tuba curva was created. This instrument was similar to the Roman trumpet and is considered

Although the tuba has been around for more 150 years, it 's prominence as a solo instrument did not appear until 100 years after. The tuba shares the role as lowest instrument in the orchestra with string bass. The tuba 's thick, round sound serves as the foundation for the ensemble in both timbre and intonation. Typically never popping out of texture in melodically, the tuba offers the orchestra with a bass voice that defines the harmonic sequence of the music played through the root and inversions

With all good bands there is a tuba, and if you want the band to be good then you are going to have a good tuba player. Tuba is not the easiest instrument to play or hold, but with a little bit of effort and practice you can be apart of a great band. Playing the tuba can be very fun and is quite interesting to play. With no tuba in a band there is no band because the tuba is the foundation of all real bands. In order to play the tuba first you are going to have to know how to hold the instrument

This piece is originally written for an iconic 20th-century tuba virtuoso Roger Bobo in December 1966 while they both, Roger Bobo and William Kraft, took a position with the Los Angeles Philharmonic. ENCOUNTER II for Solo Tuba is a member of Williams Kraft’s Encounter series. This piece contains many extremely difficult techniques for tuba such as an extremely wide range of the instrument, a complicated dissonant jump intervals, multiphonics, glissandi, and rapid half-valves technique. Those techniques

of people who don’t really know much about instruments say that all instruments look the same, especially the trombone and the tuba. Of course, some people who have brains know that they are very different from each other, or are they? For the few people that are still reading this and are actually wondering what the heck is the difference between the trombone and the tuba then prepare. First, the history of the two instruments goes back centuries, and although the two are somewhat related, the variations

1. Thirty pounds of metal resting on my left shoulder, I marched for hours in the blistering hot sun. The sousaphone was my greatest enemy. In 6th grade I was chosen to play tuba for our middle school band, I didn't like it at first, but it grew on me. Two years later, I had gotten pretty good. I made all state band, won some awards, and was 1st chair. I had no intention in joining the marching band my freshman year. It was the first day of summer, about 10 o' clock in the morning and my phone

performed a Tuba and Euphonium Recital. The program for the recital included various 20th century works and their composers along with pieces from Antonio Capuzzi from the classical era and Sebastian Bach during the Baroque Era, whom was discussed in class. Works that were played include: “T. Rex for Tuba and Piano” by Mark Schultz, “My Mountain Top for Tuba and Tape” by Andy Scott, “Double-Bass Concerto (adapted for Euphonium)” by Antonio Capuzzi, “Alarum” by Edward Gregson, “Silhouette for Tuba and Piano”

On Tuesday, November 4 2014, I attended a tuba concert at UCO Jass Lab. The concert was performed by Paul Nesper, Adjunct Instructor of Tuba and Euphonium at UCO. He was accompanied by Samuel Magrill who assisted him on the piano. It was a heart touching performance, where Nesper played various renowned pieces by Bach, Tcherepnin, Bartz, Grant and Ewazen. The concert opened with Nesper playing Sonata No. 2 BWV 1028, the famous piece by Johann Sebastian Bach. This was one of Bach’s most phenomenal

movie composer John Williams (Star Wars, Raiders of the Lost Ark, 1941) wrote a tuba concerto for Chester Schmitz, longtime tubist of the Boston Symphony and Pops Orchestras. The gravity of this addition to the repertoire cannot be overstated, as this piece has become a close second in popularity to the Ralph Vaughan Williams concerto and has likely affected many a composer who has attempted to write a concerto for the tuba since. The piece is filled with identifiable themes, tonal harmonies, lengthy

low-toned instrument that was very pretty. “This is the instrument for you. However, we are in a need of a tuba. We will get you started on an euphonium to get use to the music and gaining musicality, but next year we will switch you to tuba. The instruments are very similar, it is just that the tuba is a lower sound and a bigger version of the euphonium. “ Mr. Norman stated. I didn’t know what a tuba was, but playing the euphonium brought me a lot of joy. It was fun and relaxing to