The TROMBONE (also sometimes called SLIDE TROMBONE ) has remained largely unchanged for over five centuries.
"The thing with the trombone, actually, is the range is quite severe, " Mr. Muhly said.
The visual, often imitated, has become known as a "dolly zoom" or "trombone shot".
At the time, the trombone was a more refined instrument than either the trumpet or the horn.
But on the contrabass trombone, you get this huge wall of sound .
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To tour the Orbit, visitors gather under its base, a red fibreglass canopy that resembles the mouth of a gigantic red trombone.
This "slide trumpet" survived in specialized roles for several centuries, but it's mainly remembered now as the precursor of the trombone.
The film also reveals how the composer used to walk from London to Cheltenham with a trombone slung over his back.
Up until the eighteenth century, the lovely English name for trombone was sackbut, a word of Old French or possibly Spanish derivation.
Drummer Daryl Warren works in highway maintenance while Chris Spreadbury who plays the keyboard and trombone is, like David, a music teacher.
On "Voyager, " Vayenas takes a valve trombone solo that departs the Delta Quadrant, while drummer Kendrick Scott propels the ship through space.
The band, which just released its first album, MTO Volume One, combines the sounds of violin and banjo alongside trombone and slide trumpet.
Booker began playing his family's piano, but later moved on to other instruments, playing the clarinet, oboe, trombone and saxophone in high school.
As he was being taken to a police station he said he had been driving "like a trombone" and deserved everything he got.
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During the Renaissance, musicians played the trombone in town bands, royal ceremonial bands, and in mixed ensembles with string and keyboard instruments and voices.
The trumpet would be four to five and a half feet, the trombone nine to thirteen feet, and the tuba sixteen to twenty-six feet.
This can be done using either valves as on the French horn, trumpet, and tuba or a slide, as on the trombone.
Instead, a eclectic mix of instruments are listed, like the glockenspiel, vibraphone, grand marimba, theremin, oboe, viola, banjo, trumpet, trombone, xylophone, piano, and autoharp.
Knepper is a crucial voice on "Mingus Ah Um, " mixing gut-bucket swoops worthy of Kid Ory with dextrous Charlie Parkerisms translated to the trombone.
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Mozart used trombones for this purpose in his operas The Magic Flute and Don Giovanni, and he included a prominent trombone solo in his Requiem.
Drummer Jahphet Landis and trombone player David Smith buttressed the sound.
Trombone is Italian for "big trumpet": instrument makers in the fifteenth century created the trombone as a bigger, lower-pitched, and improved version of the slide trumpet.
Yet to principal bass trombone David Ridge, who has played contrabass trombone for San Francisco Opera "Ring" cycles, the advantages of following Wagner's specifications are significant.
WSJ: It Takes Brass to Play the Wagner Tuba | By Barbara Jepson | The Ring of the Nibelung
Imagine this as your private office, for instance, or a soundproof room for your son to practice his drumming or your daughter to play her new trombone.
But when Vayenas is not playing in the young entertainer's trombone section (or lampooning him during an onstage skit), he's writing his own futuristic-sounding instrumental jazz.
Two sips of a tart lemon balm martini brought back the blurred headlights of taxicabs on a rainy street and the shriek of a trombone in a ballroom.
The standard orchestral trombone is known as the tenor trombone.
Like the trombone, the tuba comes in several different sizes.
In the "Ring, " four Wagner tubas join an enlarged brass section that includes other orchestral rarities like the bass trumpet, contrabass trombone and contrabass tuba, creating "choirs" of gleaming brass.
WSJ: It Takes Brass to Play the Wagner Tuba | By Barbara Jepson | The Ring of the Nibelung
Trombone star Fred Wesley, Jr. is best known for his work as a sideman with James Brown in the 1960s and 70s, when he helped move Brown's sound from soul to funk.
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