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Classification of Musical Instruments

This document classifies musical instruments into different categories based on their vocal range: alto, tenor, baritone, and bass. It provides brief descriptions of common instruments that fall into each category, including details about their construction, playing technique, and typical uses. Instruments described include saxophones, horns, woodwinds like oboe and bassoon, strings like viola and cello, and brass like trombone and tuba. The document aims to organize instruments by their pitch and role in musical compositions.

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Classification of Musical Instruments

This document classifies musical instruments into different categories based on their vocal range: alto, tenor, baritone, and bass. It provides brief descriptions of common instruments that fall into each category, including details about their construction, playing technique, and typical uses. Instruments described include saxophones, horns, woodwinds like oboe and bassoon, strings like viola and cello, and brass like trombone and tuba. The document aims to organize instruments by their pitch and role in musical compositions.

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Classification of

Musical
Instruments
B. Alto Instruments
Alto Saxophone
• By Adolfe Sax in 1841.
• A member of the saxophone family.
• Smaller than the tenor but larger than
the soprano
• Mostly used in classical compositions.
French Horn
• A brass instrument made of 12-13
feet ( 3.7-4.0 m ) of tubing
wrapped into a coil with a flared
bell.
English Horn ( cor anglai s)

• Double red woodwind instrument in the oboe family.


Viola
• Bowed string instrument

• The middle voice of the violin family

• Between violin and cello


Tenor Instruments
Trombone
• From the brass family

• Sound is produced when the players vibrating lips cause the air column inside the
instrument to vibrate.
Tenor Saxophone
• Medium sized member of the saxophone
family
Guitar
• Played with fingers or a pick

• A plucked string instrument


D. Baritone Instrument
Basson

• A woodwind instrument in the double reed


family . Plays music written in the bass and
tenor registers and occasionally higher.
Baritone Saxophone

• Largest member of the saxophone


family . The lowest-pitched saxophone
in common use.
Bass Clarinet
• Regularly perform in symphony
orchestras, wind ensembles, occasionally
in marching bands and play an occasional
solo role in contemporary music and jazz
in particular
Cello
• A member of the violin family together
with violin, viola, and double bass
• Bowed string instrument .
Baritone Horn
Member of the brass instrument family.
Has a predominantly cylindrical bore as do the
trumpet and trombone and uses a large
mouthpiece like euphonium and trombone,
though a bit smaller.
E. Bass Instrument
Double Bass
• The largest and the lowest-pitched
bowed string instrument in the
modern symphony orchestra.
Bass Guitar

• Stringed instrument. Played primarily with fingers or thumb, by plucking slapping


popping tapping thumping picking
Bass Saxophone
• Largest member of the saxophone family
Tuba
• The largest and lowest pitched brass
instrument.
• Sound is produced by vibrating or
buzzing the lips into a large cupped
mouthpiece.

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