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SA Dictionary Of Music, 1904
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1following instruments, but others are also used on special occasions for exceptional effects:—
3STRING SECTION:—1st and 2nd Violins, Violas, Violoncellos, and Double Basses.
4WOOD WIND SECTION:—Flutes, Oboes, Clarinets, and Bassoons.
5BRASS SECTION:—Cornets or Trumpets, French Horns, and Trombones.
6PERCUSSION SECTION:—Kettle-drums, Triangle, and Cymbals.
8The more exceptional instruments are such as:—The Cor Anglais, Tuba, Harp, Bass Drum, Side Drum, Tambourine, Glockenspiel, etc.
10Orchestration. The art of writing music such as is suitable for the effective employment of the instruments used in an orchestra. The music needs to be adapted to the nature of each instrument employed, both as to range and facility of execution as well as tone quality. What would be easy on one instrument may be very difficult if not impossible on another; and a passage that may be charming or impressive on one instrument will appear as a caricature or monstrosity in a musical sense on another. Among the topics considered in orchestration are the natures of the instruments, and their effective use; the instruments in combination so as to secure solidity of structure, breadth and balance of tone, contrast of tone colour, and such a use of orchestral resources as will make the most of the ideas in actual performance which go to make up the essential materials of the piece. Orchestration has become of very great importance in modern music, and it is proved by results obtained by different men that there is a form of musical genius peculiar to the most effective use of the orchestra. Berlioz and Wagner are the greatest masters of modern times in this respect.
12Organ. The largest and the noblest of all musical instruments. It consists of many sets of wooden and metal pipes, with which is connected ingenious but complicated mechanism, so that they can be acted upon by a single player. Large organs have two, three, and even more Manuals or keyboards, arranged one over the other as to be within the player's reach, while at his feet are arranged what are called the Pedals, which are really large keys on which the feet of the player perform. By the sides of the manuals, in perpendicular rows, are placed what are called Stops, which are knobs attached to levers, and by pulling out of these as required the organist is able to get one or more sets of pipes to sound when the keys are pressed down in his playing. The sets of pipes are also called Stops. The wind required for setting the pipes in vibration is produced by the working of a bellows, which is put in motion by a man called the blower, or by an engine of one form or another, which is the case with all the very large organs. The organ is able to produce tone of the smallest quantity, and is equally able to produce an overwhelming volume. By the Stops the player is able in a vast variety of ways to change the tone quality, and can give on one manual a solo part while accompaniments are given on another. The organ is an instrument that surpasses all others for impressive, grand, and solemn music, and is the triumph of man's ingenuity as applied to a single musical instrument.
14Original Army Music. One of the most interesting and really remarkable features about the Music of The Army is the quantity which has been composed by Salvationists. In a way which could not have been anticipated in the early days of Army history, the musical needs of The Army have been met to a striking measure of success by those in its ranks. The Army has borrowed largely, it is true, and from many sources, for its varied music, but the original part of it is certainly not the least effective portion of it, while of course the individuality of The Army is reflected in it in an unquestionable manner, a feature which adds much to its interest for Salvationists. The following
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