RECAP

1. RECAP • Voices; range • String Instruments • Factors that determine the pitch • Played with a bow • Violin • Viola • Cello • Double Bass • Strummed or plucked • Guitar • Bass • Banjo • Ukulele • Mandolin • Harp

2. WOODWIND • The woodwind group of instruments depend on vibrating air to make sound. • The performer blows across the edge of a hole in the mouth piece. • The piccolo and flute have the highest tones of the woodwind instruments.

3. Piccolo • The piccolo has a high range and plays an octave higher than the flute. • The instrument’s high register is shrill and whistle like

4. Piccolo

5. Flute • The flute has a high range and is very agile • It can produce a rapid succession of tones that are full in the low register and bright in the top register.

6. Flute

7. Oboe • The oboe has a nasal, intense, expressive tone. • As the pitch is difficult to adjust, the entire orchestra is tuned to its A. • The oboe’s partner, the English horn, is just a low pitched oboe

8. Oboe

9. English Horn

10. Clarinet • The clarinet can produce tones very rapidly with a wide range of dynamics and tone color. • Many performers using clarinet have become famous because of their dexterity in handling the clarinet’s wide ranges. • The bass clarinet is larger with a much lower range

11. Clarinet

12. Bass Clarinet

13. Bassoon • The bassoon produces a deep nasal tone. • The contrabassoon, produces the lowest pitch in the orchestra.

14. Bassoon

15. Contrabassoon