How To Use Woodwind In A Sentence

With the brass and woodwind programs repair bills are very expensive.
Feldman scored it for an ensemble consisting of doubled woodwind quartet, brass septet, string quartet, and a trio of harp, piano, and vibraphone.
The scoring is for a simple classical orchestra, strings, double woodwind, four horns and two trumpets.
The discordant sounds of violinos, woodwinds, and the falk-horn rose around Anna, but she continued to watch the camp below. Darksong Rising
Judd made no attempt to tidy up the sheer chaos of this music, presenting its many dynamic extremes without apology, never subduing its often seemingly random accompanying noises of bells, woodwind flutterings and bassoon growls.

The ensemble sound was bright, with the trumpets and woodwind producing particularly expressive sounds.
They range from the chamber music of the Clarinets, a woodwind trio with Mr. Noriega and Anthony Burr, to the instrumental rock of My Ears Are Bent, an ensemble project led by keyboardist Ted Reichman that features guitarist Mary Halvorson. Dancing in the Swirl of Skirl
There is great depth in the Boston strings and brilliant woodwind soloists. Times, Sunday Times
The primary instruments are drums but lutes, woodwinds, and thumb pianos are also used.
(For example, a woodwind quintet might add a piano and become a sextet, or a string quartet might be reduced to a string trio.).
A slow, sombre chorale underpins intricate polyphonies woven by the oboe and other woodwinds. Times, Sunday Times
Not knowing which of them wrote what, I can only report that the pit contained two cellos, one double-bass, solo woodwind, brass and timpani.
Other unique curiosities are the 3 Sonatas that the composer wrote for each of the main woodwind instruments; oboe, bassoon and clarinet, although those for cor anglais and flute never saw the light of day.
The prelude to Scene 2 meanwhile shows Poulenc's play with brass and woodwinds in give and take, while puckishly plucked strings and harp play with each other in the background.
He reached for a more conventional musical palette, strings and woodwinds.
Most woodwind instruments have a single or double reed. Times, Sunday Times
The bass clarinet forms a solid bass for the woodwind group.
Without pause, the finale begins with strings slashing through the drumming, followed by woodwind trills and a skipping melody.
We carried on regardless, live on radio, with smoke billowing out from the woodwind. Times, Sunday Times
The shortcomings of the Queensland Orchestra's woodwind and brass sections are widely discussed in arts circles.
The instrumentation is acoustic guitar plus woodwinds and strings - meandering arrangements, oblique lyrics, and his vocal style is pretty full on, so right up my alley.
The lowest of the four orchestral woodwinds, it was developed from the Renaissance curtal or dulcian in the mid-17th century as part of the general reconstruction of all woodwind instruments that took place in France.
Snippets of waltz occasionally float through, the Mozart connection abruptly contrasted by ostinatos, lilting chords, and variants of the Mozartian melody in Russian sounding woodwind lines.
The virtuoso tour de force begins with a flourish, the piano arpeggios answered by bold chords in the woodwind trio.
The festival covers a whole range of categories: speech and drama, vocal, choirs, woodwind, piano, strings, harp, guitar, recorders, and group music-making and there is even a class for electric violin.
The same general comments apply equally well to other musical instrument capable of a sustained tone such as the woodwind and brass instruments.
Music played on the tape deck, something contrapuntal with woodwinds. WHEN THE SACRED GINMILL CLOSES
The woodwind players are sometimes asked to play ocarinas, those strange lemon-shaped clay whistles with simple finger-holes all over them.
Yet there was tremendous power and clarity here, as well as stunning individual woodwind and brass playing. Times, Sunday Times
On woodwinds, a cloth bag has sometimes been tied over the instrument, and small pear-shaped wooden mutes were made to fit into 18th-century oboe bells.
The really cool thing about percussion is it kind of encompasses everything that's not a string or woodwind or brass instrument," says Kotche. Daniel J. Kushner: Glenn Kotche and Marcos Balter: Meet the Composers, Chicago-Style
The Lismore Music Festival Society will hold its 92nd Eisteddfod in August and September this year with sections in woodwind, brass, piano, string, vocal, spoken word and dance.
The orchestration, rich with harmonium, celeste and harp, and aglow with fluttering woodwind and solo string writing, displays Massenet's hunger for throwing every musical meat, fish and fowl into his recipe, with uneven results. Cendrillon; Rinaldo – review
The woodwind was particularly haunting during the slow second movement.
Professional woodwind players such as flautists, clarinettists, oboists are in general more skilled in this regard than violinists, pianists and accordion players.
The virtuoso tour de force begins with a flourish, the piano arpeggios answered by bold chords in the woodwind trio.
The business end of the Compton Organ - there are hundreds of settings and keys allowing the player the option of car horns, percussion, keyboard, brass and woodwind sounds and more.
The playing of the woodwind section at the beginning of the overture was well balanced and finely tuned, revealing the experience and ability of the players.
Only after four or five minutes does the music become loud, and then there is an intense climax, followed by a return to quiet strings, woodwinds and muted brass.
He won first prize in the woodwind section.
There surely must have been a hint of gold in music for woodwind and horns for Mozart to have dressed his offerings in such a resplendent manner.
It suddenly takes an aggressive post-rock turn with the addition of a ride cymbal, drums, and scratching noises until poignant melody lines appear, played by what sounds like strings paired with woodwinds.
These charming songs exist in two different versions, the first for baritone and string quartet, and the second for tenor and woodwind quartet (oboe, cor anglais, clarinet and bassoon).
Some are like woodwinds, some are like strings, some are like brass instruments, some are like tympany, etc. etc. Friends symphony, resolution
We carried on regardless, live on radio, with smoke billowing out from the woodwind. Times, Sunday Times
Other musical instruments included stringed instruments such as fiddles and harps, and woodwind instruments such as flutes and fifes.
Originally, flute is belong to woodwind, later made by metal.
The instrumentation is acoustic guitar plus woodwinds and strings - meandering arrangements, oblique lyrics, and his vocal style is pretty full on, so right up my alley.
It would be misleading to assert that a woodwind trio (oboe, clarinet, bassoon) has a propensity for entertaining music rather than solid serious stuff.
The record, at times, is a circus of sounds, an ornate hodgepodge of moody keyboards and skronky guitars, wordless angel chorales, ambient electronics, airy woodwinds and overcharged fuzzboxes.
Today we find women in brass, percussion and woodwind sections, as well as the safe-havens of strings and harpdom.
Rising and falling intensity displays a wide range of instrumentation from soft woodwind to loud drumming against the brass and a shrill flute or piccolo, as well as horn calls.
Rising and falling intensity displays a wide range of instrumentation from soft woodwind to loud drumming against the brass and a shrill flute or piccolo, as well as horn calls.
The scoring is for a simple classical orchestra, strings, double woodwind, four horns and two trumpets.
The entire woodwind and brass sections were all off stage!
The work itself is effectively a dialogue between piano and orchestra rather than a contest, permitting Abbado to show off the poise and grace of the woodwind – there were some wonderfully honed solos here – and the suavity of the strings. Lucerne Festival Orchestra – review
The majority held violinos or violas, but there were also two woodwinds and a falk-horn in the group. The Shadow Sorceress
Feldman scored it for an ensemble consisting of doubled woodwind quartet, brass septet, string quartet, and a trio of harp, piano, and vibraphone.
The attractive tonal colours derived from some fresh sounding natural horns and focused woodwind, as well as a superb string tone.
This combination of instruments was still in vogue in the time of Haydn and Mozart, and was used in most of their works for the Church except that they sometimes added two flutes, two clarinets (woodwind instrument of ancient origin, so called on account of the resemblance of its tones to the high tones of the clarino, or trumpet), and two trumpets. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman
Developed from the dulcian, the bassoon has never acquired a fashionable status among woodwind instruments.
The woodwind players are sometimes asked to play ocarinas, those strange lemon-shaped clay whistles with simple finger-holes all over them.
Woodwind instrument bores were redesigned to extend their range and improve their tone-quality.
The staples are represented - alto and soprano sax, bass, drums, woodwinds, piano, and, to a lesser extent, the clarinet and some vocals.
And when restraint was needed, out came the silkiest, softest strings, the most delicate woodwind tendrils. Times, Sunday Times
The categories of competition are woodwind, brass, strings, piano and vocal.
The entire woodwind and brass sections were all off stage!
It is certainly difficult to play, not only for the pianist and orchestra – who must continually wrestle with dense, muddy scoring – but also the piano itself, which barely survived the final cadenza, the muscular Denis Matsuev's assault on the instrument egged on by Bacchic interjections from woodwind and brass. Matsuev/LSO/Gergiev
We carried on regardless, live on radio, with smoke billowing out from the woodwind. Times, Sunday Times
First, woodwind and brass alone. Times, Sunday Times
Her section of the tune ends quickly, leading to an instrumental vamp with layers and layers of woodwinds and some nice acoustic guitar.
The Waterloo Stage production loses some of the bigness of the musical numbers, however, by replicating the brass and woodwind instruments on a synthesizer.
Parsifal - at the end of the weightiest, most yearning Vorspiel one can imagine, as the woodwind sing out into the Bayreuth gloom and the strings disappear into the stratosphere we are suddenly plunged into inky digital silence before the first scene begins. Where is there an end of it?
The groups which performed include strings, woodwind and brass musicians and performances were also be given by some vocal soloists.
Brass and woodwind shriek from the outset. Times, Sunday Times
The falk-horn and woodwinds would not be so affected either, " mused Palian. The Shadow Sorceress
The school's Music Week also featured performances by peripatetic music teachers on violin, guitar, woodwind, brass and keyboard.
Other musical instruments included stringed instruments such as fiddles and harps, and woodwind instruments such as flutes and fifes.
Marc Lowenstein was an alert leader of the Los Angeles-based Ensemble Green, configured on Thursday with strings, percussion, and the double-reed woodwinds. Rodney Punt: The Mortal Thoughts of Lady Macbeth: A Chamber Opera of Horrors at Fais Do-Do
The band, a nine-member unit consisting of guitar, drums, bass, strings, keyboard, marimbas, and woodwinds, intersperses voice-over narrative with sprawling instrumental melodies.
On others, as in the case of "I'll Never Leave You," we took the separate harp and woodwind tracks and created a new version of the song that was quite moody and emotional and perfect for where I wanted to use it in the film. Joseph Vella: The Art of Harry Nilsson
He was grinning and all but dancing as the woodwind chirruped and tweeted, in the archaic sense of the word, in the "Ballet of the Unhatched Chicks". Tristan und Isolde; LSO/Gergiev
The Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra is a noteworthy example, its playing characterized by dark woodwinds and brasses that impart a dreamlike, veiled quality suggesting the mellow patina of old silver.
I did also play in a woodwind orchestra, but the trumpet is very traditional and plays a big role in mining bands.
The performances by the school orchestra and woodwind, brass and string soloists delighted a 120-strong audience of family and friends at the Granville Road school.
There is some lovely playing, particularly from the woodwinds, but the horns, timpani and bass line are too recessed to have the necessary impact.
There was some impressive solo playing from the woodwind principals in this performance and the orchestra produced a beautifully controlled pianissimo ending.
The festival includes classes for choirs, vocal solos, duets, groups, pianoforte, strings, woodwind, guitar ensembles, composition, brass and keyboards.
The transparency of sound from gut strings means the woodwind and brass soloists emerge as if naturally from the orchestral texture. Times, Sunday Times
The woodwind playing, too, has luminous beauty. Times, Sunday Times
Rattle flooded the stage with extra strings, brass and woodwind. Times, Sunday Times
Today we find women in brass, percussion and woodwind sections, as well as the safe-havens of strings and harpdom.
Then the concertmeister, sitting below, gave an audible murmur; and, together, the violins and the woodwinds began the first, long-drawn-out notes of the introduction. The Genius
Recently they have launched a range of colourful accessories to appeal to woodwind players. Times, Sunday Times
In woodwind instruments, such as the recorder or flute, the pitch of the note depends on the length of the closed tube.
Developed from the dulcian, the bassoon has never acquired a fashionable status among woodwind instruments.
Brass and woodwind shriek from the outset. Times, Sunday Times
With a mighty descending gesture of massed violins and woodwinds the storm unleashes its fury over rolling timpani, pounding bass drum and fortissimo brass chords. The Splendid Start to a Farewell to Opera
The woodwind was particularly haunting during the slow second movement.
He had been getting into orchestration which interested me because I had already been thinking that these new songs could sound nice with strings and woodwind. The Sun
Despite some slowish tempi, this is a pacy account of the composer's most popular opera, with wonderful woodwind playing. Times, Sunday Times
This is his finest: all gliding woodwind and enormous brass, depending on how nasty the person on screen is. Times, Sunday Times
The brass attack was properly fierce and the winds sounded alert and characterful, especially in those bleak woodwind solos that hint at decades of despair. Times, Sunday Times
Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony displayed the orchestra's qualities to the full, with rich soloistic playing by woodwind and brass sections, notably the horn solo in the slow movement and its imitation by oboe and strings.
For all its rambunctious energy, Rossini's music is full of subtle details here, especially in the contrasting middle section in C-sharp minor — pianissimo again — dominated by a rushing line of wordless patter for the first violins with soft woodwind and string accompaniment. The Splendid Start to a Farewell to Opera
But the music was everything I imagined it would be, all bombast woodwind and deep gravelly voices.
The oboe is one of two commonly found double reed woodwinds (the bassoon is the other), a family of musical instruments that produces sound by channeling vibrations made by blowing on two thin pieces of material. Chicagoist
Rather than his usual saxophones and brass, Mr. Morris's current ensemble consists mainly of symphonic strings even the double basses are bowed arco, woodwinds, and world-music instruments. Passing Down the Piano Torch Song
Brass and woodwind shriek from the outset. Times, Sunday Times
Other unique curiosities are the 3 Sonatas that the composer wrote for each of the main woodwind instruments; oboe, bassoon and clarinet, although those for cor anglais and flute never saw the light of day.
The transparency of sound from gut strings means the woodwind and brass soloists emerge as if naturally from the orchestral texture. Times, Sunday Times
The arrangements are intelligent without being fussy: tuneful refrains for cello and woodwind, beguiling motifs for piano and vibes, emotional guitar and restrained drums.
The ritard Fricsay imposes on the tempo clarifies the inner textures, especially in the nasal oboe and pointed, supporting woodwinds. Audiophile Audition Headlines
The 40-piece band, led by flight lieutenant John Buckley RAAF, includes woodwind, brass, percussion and vocal ensembles.
This requires that when the violins are playing, a camera is on the violins, ditto the brass, ditto the woodwind and every other section of the orchestra, with occasional shots of the conductor, preferably when he's at his most histrionic.
Rattle flooded the stage with extra strings, brass and woodwind. Times, Sunday Times
The arrangements are intelligent without being fussy: tuneful refrains for cello and woodwind, beguiling motifs for piano and vibes, emotional guitar and restrained drums.
The woodwind playing, too, has luminous beauty. Times, Sunday Times
A wind instrument classified as a woodwind because it is played with a reed, although it is usually made of metal. Saxophone
Rattle flooded the stage with extra strings, brass and woodwind. Times, Sunday Times
During the 96th festival there have been classes for choirs, vocal solos, duets, groups, strings, woodwind, brass and keyboard players.
Musical forces were pared down; period instruments were mixed with modern -- steel in lieu of cat-gut strings, cellos for violas da gamba, modern woodwinds with the antique harpsichord. Rodney Punt: The Brandenburgs Are Their Brand: LACO's Six Concertos of J.S. Bach
The bass clarinet forms a solid bass for the woodwind group.
What it lacked was razor-sharp precision and soloistic f lair from the woodwind principals. Times, Sunday Times
Like Telemann he makes telling use of quite elaborate woodwind set against the string tutti not just in soloist-like concertante passages but so as to adduce particularly striking timbres overall.
The sudden modulation brings a galaxy of woodwind delights against muted, pointed strings.
The middle movements, intermezzos both, are characterised by mellow string and woodwind playing.
Piano classes start on Thursday, together with brass and woodwind instruments and handbell orchestras.
He won first prize in the woodwind section.
The musical style is full of charming melodies and a lightness of touch, a predilection for woodwind, simple diatonic writing contrasted by more chromatic and coloratura writing for the heroic and virtuous characters.
The transparency of sound from gut strings means the woodwind and brass soloists emerge as if naturally from the orchestral texture. Times, Sunday Times
There is some lovely playing, particularly from the woodwinds, but the horns, timpani and bass line are too recessed to have the necessary impact.
The festival includes classes for choirs, vocal solos, duets, groups, pianoforte, strings, woodwind, guitar ensembles, composition, brass and keyboards.
Joliveau is herself a soprano, Wolfe is a composer and woodwind player, and Smith plays the double bass.
The orchestra is most likely to be double woodwind, horns and trumpets, harp, piano, percussion and strings.
The natural trumpets were brightly penetrating while the flutes and other woodwind resonated above the soft legato strings.
The musical style is full of charming melodies and a lightness of touch, a predilection for woodwind, simple diatonic writing contrasted by more chromatic and coloratura writing for the heroic and virtuous characters.
There was some impressive solo playing from the woodwind principals in this performance and the orchestra produced a beautifully controlled pianissimo ending.
In the vast first movement, the growling, guttural strings were outgunned by the skin and bones of brass and woodwind. Times, Sunday Times
I have a sneaking feeling that I am rather fond of period instruments, especially in the woodwind.
Human voices breathe as one with those of the plangent solo oboe and the dark, muffled bass woodwind. Times, Sunday Times

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