The tone-colouring of the instrumentation in this air is in very striking contrast to that of the previous songs; clarinets are used for the first time, and with the horns and bassoons (no flutes) give a full and brilliant effect.
The soft muted tones of the basset-horn and bassoons are made clearer and purer by the addition of a flute, while the full chords of horns and trombones and the stringed instruments bind these elements into unity.
It may at first sight appear fcommonplace; but the unusually low position of the violas, violoncelli, and bassoons gives it a striking expression of power and of breathless urgency.
The oboes and bassoons lead a two-part canon in octave, while the clarinets and horns are used as tutti parts.
He knows he can squelch the first fiddles and reeds, and come out even with the bassoons and double basses, but the man with the trombone is his mortal enemy, and the man with the kettle-drums his skeleton.
The viols and bassoons almost always go through the whole opera col Basso, and the clarinets and hautboys in Unisono.
The choruses of pilgrims (but which are here supported by clarinets and bassoons p.
Study from this point of view the progress from the very simple instrumentation of Alexander's Feast, where at first two Oboes are used with the strings, then appear successively two Bassoons (air No.
For a later performance, probably in 1773, two oboes, two English horns, and two bassoonswere so added that the clarinets might be omitted.
The orchestra remains in continual motion; at first a tender violin passage is introduced, then the oboes and bassoonsalternate with each other, and with the voice.
Bassoons served, as a rule, only to strengthen the bass; in various places where they, like the violoncello, were treated with some degree of independence it was so indicated in the score.
The symphony had originally trumpets and drums, which were omitted in the overture, while flutes and bassoons were added.
It was not until later that the bassoonswere made independent of the basses, and then they served, like the tenors, for middle parts.
The oboe has the chief part among the wind instruments, the flutes serving mainly for variety and special characteristics; the bassoons strengthen the bass, and are rarely used independently.
Footnote 73: Leopold Mozart had ordered new oboes and bassoons from Dresden in a great hurry, when the election of an archbishop was imminent.
Heckel of Biebrich-am-Rhein, made bassoons with an extra key, extending the compass downwards to A.
Clarinets, for instance, were only admitted into Italian orchestras on condition of being kept quiet; while bassoons were used only to strengthen the basses.
Hautboys and bassoons were the first wind instruments admitted into Italian orchestras to vary the monotony inseparable from the use of stringed instruments alone.
Strings, hautboys, and bassoonsformed the groundwork of the orchestra.
The works are full of the gnawing of bassoons and the bleakness of the English horn, full of shattering trombones and screaming violins, full of the sinister rolling of drums, the menacing reverberation of cymbals, the icy glittering of harps.
Soon, however, the clerk and his broom followed Moses and Aaron, the fiddles and the bassoons into the land of shadows.
Many village churches had their band, composed of fiddles, flutes, clarionets, and sometimes bassoons and a drum.
Bassoons and French horns make fine deep-toned harmonies; and four French horns can play alone in full harmony.
Flutes, oboes, and bassoons can do the same thing and produce a wholly different instrumental color.
The bending back at the butt joint is pierced in one piece of wood, and the prolongation of the double tube is usually stopped by a flattened oval cork, but in some modern bassoons this is replaced by a properly curved tube.
The bassoons play readily with the violoncellos, their united tone being often advantageous for effect.
At the opening a long B flat is sounded by the cornets, clarinets and bassoons in unison, with soft strokes upon a kettle-drum tuned to G sharp.
It is first given out by two oboes divided, a single English horn, two bassoons in unison, and four trombones in unison.
The horns and bassoons follow with the motive of disaster and then do likewise.
It is first sounded by two violas and the viol da gamba, and then drops without change to the bass, where it is repeated fortissimo by two bassoons and the contra-bassoon.
He made prominent use of low wood-wind, which were constantly combined with the violas, and he evinced peculiar predilection for clarinets in their low range and bassoons in their upper range.
In orchestras which included twenty-five strings, frequently no less than five oboes and five bassoons would be employed.
Other important contributors to Tschaikowsky's subdued coloring are the clarinets in their lower range and the bassoons in their upper range.
Lobkowitz, who was present, made light of the matter: two of the bassoons were present, said he, and the absence of the third could make no great difference.
At length contra-bass and the two bassoons gather themselves together for a new effort and the clarinet has time to take a rest.
The four families of wind instruments may be divided into two classes: a) instruments of nasal quality and dark resonance--oboes and bassoons (Eng.
In the wood-wind department, however, the difference in register and quality of flutes, oboes, clarinets and bassoons is striking to a degree.
Four-part harmony given to two bassoons and two horns, especially in soft passages, yields a finely-balanced tone recalling the effect of a quartet of horns, but possessing slightly greater transparence.
The four kinds of wind instruments: flutes, oboes, clarinets and bassoons may be generally considered to be of equal power.
The lower register of the oboes andbassoons is thick and rough, yet still nasal in quality; the very high compass is shrill, hard and dry.
A beautiful dark tone is derived from the combination of middle notes in stopped horns and deep notes in the clarinet: [Music] If bassoons are substituted for clarinets the effect loses part of its character.
If the F sharp in the double basses were played arco by 'cellos and basses together it would sound clumsy, if it were given to the bassoons a comic effect would be produced, and if played by the brass it would sound rough and coarse, etc.
Why, for example, should a given melody in thirds on two bassoonsdenote a ring?
Symphony, the bassoons are brought in unexpectedly, in such a manner as to produce a humorous effect.
You have the first and secondbassoons safely here, surely the third man doesn't count for much.
The melody is given to the flute against a pizzicato figure sustained by bassoons and double basses.
Friar Laurence takes his bow in a solemn andante introduction for clarinets and bassoons in F-sharp minor.
Out of the gloom of the bassoons grows a broad and general luminous song followed by an interlude of the busy hum of life; this is succeeded by the return of the sunrise theme with a tremendously vivacious accompaniment.
Allegro non troppo (Bassoons with tremolo cellos and roll of kettle-drums)] trembling low strings, that is taken up as in fugue by successive groups and carried to a height where enters a fierce call of the horns.
The theme is given to the saxophone (or cello) with obligato of clarinet and violas; the bass is in bassoons and pizzicato of lower strings.
With a rush of harp and higher strings the Suite begins on ardent wing in exultant song of trumpets (with horns, bassoons and cellos) to quick palpitating violins that in its higher flight is given over to upper reeds and violas.
As his thoughts turn to his mother the Love-Life motive emerges through the 'cellos and violas and double basses, next in all the strings, and finally horns and bassoons take it over.
It can be detected in another melody assigned to the clarinets and bassoons against rising arpeggios by the solo instruments, which is prominent in the development.
A short, solemn, even ecclesiastical interruption by the trombones and bassoons is of more thematic importance.
The engaging melody [Illustration: play music] is sung immediately by the oboes over chords in the clarinets and bassoons and pizzicato arpeggios in the 'cellos.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bassoons" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
