... became rather less exciting. Trumpets and horns though were completely accepted as a vital part of the orchestral sound in the later works of the Classical era. Apart from the timpani, percussion instruments were used as novelties. They were too closely associated with military bands as being too strong for the opera audience. There were ... piccolo and the cor anglais. While Classical composers had used pairs of brass and woodwind instruments, Wagner often called for triple or quadruple woodwind or just expanded at will. The new instruments and bigger orchestras made it possible for co...

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... the development part of the composition that makes the first movement very distinct. Brahms makes such distinction by alternating and combining the tonalities of the woodwinds and string instruments and by using various percussion instruments which in turn The second movement of the symphony, which is rather slow and peaceful when compare to the first movement, is probably the most beautiful and the ... atmosphere. Throughout the middle of the second movement, the rhythm becomes slightly agitated. This can be noted by the sudden change of timbres and volumes coming from the string and p...

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... and all the violins were in the middle spread neatly in a U-Shape. All the other instruments were in the back. For example: The flutes, oboes, clarinet, bassoon, horns, trumpets, trombone, bass trombone, tube, timpani, percussion and the harp. The program booklet gave a list of the pieces the orchestra was going ... in 1983. It starts very mysterious and spooky. You feel like you're in a horror film. You can hear the violins just screeching their instruments. And the cello player starts to hit his instrument to make a beat. It does different dynamics. Its start low and then immediately i...

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