Orchestra instruments and special effects SC

Question 1

How would you create beautiful sunrise tone?

Answer 1

Use a mute on string instrument

Question 2

How would create a classic whistle tone?

Answer 2

Artificial harmonic - player lightly presses a 4th above chosen note

Question 3

What is a nice sweet instrument combo for high melody?

Answer 3

Fute and violin

Question 4

What instrument combo creates a very grand melody?

Answer 4

Trumpets and violin with trumpets octave below

Question 5

What do the different ranges of a cello sound like?

Answer 5

Low-ominous
Middle-sweet
High-tense and uneasy

Question 6

What instruments double well together for pizz sounds?

Answer 6

Cello and basoon. (also Bass if need weight)

Question 7

What can harp be used for?

Answer 7

Magical glissando
connect one section to another
a revelation

Question 8

What can piano double effectively?

Answer 8

Low notes with Low bass and cello to add bite

Mid register - pizz strings, clarinet or xylophone

Question 9

What 2 instruments are a good accompaniment for celesta?

Answer 9

Soft flute and harp

Question 10

How is a percussion roll notated?

Answer 10

With 3 slashes above it

Question 11

What is a common effect used by wind instruments and what is it usually supporting/paired with?

Answer 11

Staccato

support pizz strings and Trills.

Triangle rolls often present

Question 12

What is a cool flute effect?

Answer 12

Double or triple tounging to create a staccato flurry

Question 13

What pairing can can create a comical effect?

Answer 13

Piccolo double with and intstrument several octaves lower such as basoon

Question 14

What solo wind really creates beautiful melody in mid and upper register?

Answer 14

Oboe

Question 15

What wind can create a richer and more menacing tone than oboe?

Answer 15

English horn usually played below oboe register

Question 16

What ranges does the bassoon tone sound like?

Answer 16

Low range sounds buzzy and a struggle.
Mid range sounds poignant melody like funeral a bit.
High sounds sweeter but fragile

Question 17

What is contra bassoon and how does it sound?

Answer 17

One octave lower range than bassoon but sounds buzzy as fuck

Question 18

What moods do the clarinet ranges provide?

Answer 18

Low - lusciously dark, at other times quite ominous
Mid - rich, warm, woody sound - used most often
High - thinner and less warm, often employed in comical moments - providing a teasing, bratty sound.

Question 19

What instrument sounds great as harmony with itself?

Answer 19

Clarinet

Question 20

What effect/note duration choice sounds comical on the clarinet and bass clarinet?

Answer 20

Very fast scale runs as an apogatura

Question 21

What wind instrument has a deep rich tone better than low of basoon?

Answer 21

Bass clarinet

Question 22

What is most used brass instrument?

Answer 22

French horn

Question 23

What brass is good at fast melodic lines and modified by the use of mutes?

Answer 23

Trumpets

Question 24

What can create an amazing wall of sound in the brass section?

Answer 24

Trombones playing 3 note harmony with tuba adding the 4th note on bottom.

Question 25

What brass technique adds an element of drama?

Answer 25

sforzando, loud stab to crescendo

Question 26

What family have the greatest tonal change form soft to loud?

Answer 26

Brass

Question 27

Which range in french horn is weakest in and how does it sound?

Answer 27

Low range but also has interesting colour worth exploring, quite fragile and haunting

Question 28

What is the french horn middle range good for?

Answer 28

lush, dreamlike harmonies, also the range best suited to sweeping majestic melodies, although a continuation upward to the French horn's highest range will bring even greater power to your melodies

Question 29

What creates a very lush melody line combining brass and string only?

Answer 29

4-6 french horns and a cello doubling all in mid register and legato

Question 30

What emotion do you get out french horn high register?

Answer 30

Almost a musical scream, quite a strained sound, urgent,

Question 31

What can you double with to add a gutsy macho power to french horn?

Answer 31

double with trombones (trumpets for more airy effect)

Question 32

What are french horn special effects?

Answer 32

glissando or rip. Metal mute

Question 33

What do the 3 ranges of the trumpets sound like?

Answer 33

Low - powerful but a bit restrained Mid - quintessential trumpet sound, beautiful "sing-song" quality of the trumpet in this mid range. You can hear how easy it is for the trumpet to make melodies come alive. High - trumpet really comes alive. Its top notes can sound almost piercing. Here it will be louder than any other instruments in your orchestration.

Question 34

What percussion often accompanies loud brass moments like trumpet?

Answer 34

Crash cymbals

Question 35

What effect are trumpets very good at?

Answer 35

Stacattoo fast repeated

Question 36

What harmony with brass always sound exciting?

Answer 36

Loud trumpet chords

Question 37

What mutes are used with trumpets?

Answer 37

Straight mute - common in orchestra, sets the tone to comical and in background Cup mute - Sounds more musical, used in pop and jazz, more energy Harmon mute - sounds very jazzy

Question 38

What brass instruments most often play together?

Answer 38

Trombones

Question 39

What do trombones sound like in different registers?

Answer 39

Low - ominous but powerful, metallic buzz | Mid - more aren't, strained like a low french horn, very metal buzzy

Question 40

What is a good way to voice harmony for trombone?

Answer 40

With some width to create space as can easily get dense

Question 41

What is trombones most regular roles in orchestra?

Answer 41

Doubling melody or supporting harmony

Question 42

What special effect can trombone do that is classic comedy?

Answer 42

Slide

Question 43

What effect and tempo is commonly used for trombone?

Answer 43

Rhythmic fast stacatto

Question 44

What is bass trombone most commonly used for?

Answer 44

Very loud powerful bottom note as well as support harmony with solo bottom note

Question 45

What does tuba sound like in different registers?

Answer 45

Low - Very deep, almost elephant trumpet with buzz, quite powerful but not to much as slightly thin Mid/High - bit more grand, like for the queen, still bit thin

Question 46

Which brass instrument can take the melody in light comical settings?

Answer 46

Tuba

Question 47

What is a powerful low register brass combo?

Answer 47

Bass trombone and tuba doubled octave lower