contrabass

1 There is quite a bit of contrabass clarinet and bass clarinet and B-flat clarinet, for that matter.

2 “Bertha’s Lair” leaves more to the discretion of the performers, yet this performance—with Sorey on drums and Chase switching between piccolo, C flute, and contrabass flute—unfolded like an impeccably choreographed routine.

3 The title comes from Chase’s nickname for her monstrous contrabass instrument, which stands five and a half feet tall.

4 Digital flutes, contrabass flutes, bamboo flutes, Mayan flutes.

5 BOMBARDON, or Bass Tuba, the name given to the bass and contrabass of the brass wind in military bands, called in the orchestra bass tuba.

6 Anderson uses a contrabass clarinet plumbing its own lowest registers to hint at how deep and dark Oedipus's fate will be.

7 Parker’s “Scrapple From the Apple” loses its steady pulse, becoming an immersion in overtones and soupy interplay, especially between Mr. Braxton’s contrabass clarinet and the sighing, slippery bass of Joe Fonda.

8 A decade of experimentation resulted in a set of eight violins ranging in size from the 11-inch treble to the 7-foot contrabass, each pitched half an octave apart.

9 At the beginning Mr. Braxton — next to an assembly of horns including the contrabass saxophone, taller than him in its tilted stand — overturned an hourglass on a table.

10 The live part for various flutes — including bass and contrabass varieties — occasionally imitated those prefashioned motifs, while at other junctures it seemed to trigger new twists in the work’s progression.

11 It was scored for contrabass, and contrasted vigorous open string strums with ethereal harmonics played all the way below the fingerboard.

12 And her brooding work on contrabass flute wound up serving as a setup for one booming, climactic pulse from Mr. Sorey, working in this moment as drummer and dramatist both.

13 Of himself he said that "he was in this world like the E string of a violin on a contrabass."

14 Reading him somehow suggests hearing a Bach mass rescored for two fifes, a tambourine in B, a wind machine, two tenor harps, a contrabass oboe, two banjos, eight tubas and the usual clergy and strings.

15 Chase stood with her towering contrabass flute against the backdrop of a projected film landscape, by Ailbhe Ni Bhriain, of an Irish bog — a site, Cleare says, of rich industrial and geological history.

16 Violin, flute, also viol, All these parts are well supported And the contrabass is perfect.

17 The deep-sea contrabass clarinet and contrabassoon that Salonen love contribute a strange bottom to the orchestral sound.

18 The work begins with foreboding, a tremolo of strings interrupted by agitated bursts of contrabass.

19 The orchestral double fugue had a freedom of gait that was intoxicating, underpinned by the positively volcanic power of the contrabasses' scurrying figures.

20 Like the booming foghorn sound that represents the hell beast in “Hellbound,” Lowe dropped a deep contrabass note in his front title.

1 最低音的

tenor

2 倍低音的

double-bass

3 最低音

tenor basso profundo

4 低音大提琴

doghouse violone