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Classification of Musical instruments-FLORES

This document classifies musical instruments into different categories based on their vocal range: alto, bass, baritone, soprano, and tenor. It provides examples of specific instruments that fall under each category and describes their vocal ranges. Alto instruments have a higher range than tenor but lower than soprano. Bass instruments generally produce the lowest notes. Baritone instruments have a range between bass and tenor. Tenor instruments have a higher range than baritone but lower than alto.

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Classification of Musical instruments-FLORES

This document classifies musical instruments into different categories based on their vocal range: alto, bass, baritone, soprano, and tenor. It provides examples of specific instruments that fall under each category and describes their vocal ranges. Alto instruments have a higher range than tenor but lower than soprano. Bass instruments generally produce the lowest notes. Baritone instruments have a range between bass and tenor. Tenor instruments have a higher range than baritone but lower than alto.

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Classification of

Musical
Instruments
Musical instruments are tools adapted or created in making
musical sounds.Their vocalrange often classifies it in
comparison with other instruments such as the following:

a.Alto Instruments
b.Bass Instruments
c.Baritone Instruments
d.Soprano Instruments
e.Tenor Instruments
Alto Instruments
have a range that is higher than the tenor range but lower than the soprano range.

French horn– brass


Altosaxophone– invented instrument made about
in 1841 by Adolphe Sax, a 12-13 feet tubing wrapped
Belgian instrument into a coil with a flared
bell.
designer;
mostly used in classical
compositions.
English horn (coranglais)– Viola–the middle voice
a double-reed woodwind of the violin family and
instrument in the oboe between the violin and
family. the cello.
Bass Instruments
generally produce the lowest notes in a musical ensemble.

Double bass– Bass guitar–a


largest and stringed
lowest-pitched instrument with
bowed a longer neck
instrument in and scale
the modern length, with
symphony four to
orchestra. eight strings.
Bass saxophone– Tuba– the largest and
one of the largest deep-pitched bass
members of the
saxophone family of instrument.
low range.
Baritone Instruments
have a range that is between the bass and tenor ranges.

Bassoon– played Baritone


by pressing the saxophone– one
reed between the of the largest
lips and blow to member of the
sound the
instrument. saxophone family
and is the
lowest-pitched.
Bass clarinet– Cello (viooncello)–
regularly performed bowed and sometimes
in symphony
orchestras, wind, plucked string instrument;
ensembles,occasionall has a hollow
y in marching bands
and plays an wooden body with two
occasional sole role in sound holes, and four
contemporary music. strings running along the
body and neck.
Baritone horn– a wind
instrument that consists
of a brass tube that is
blown using a cup-shaped
or pipe-shaped mouth
piece.
Baritone Instruments
have a range that is between the bass and tenor ranges.

Flute–a wind instrument Violin– a small


that produces sound
through the flow of air string instrument,
from the hole that has usually with four
an elaborate set of keys. strings tuned in
perfect fifths
Soprano saxophone– a Trumpet– usually
wood wind instrument played by blowing
used as a solo and air through closed
chamber instrument in lips in producing a
classical music or a buzzing sound.
concert band or
orchestra.
Clarinet– a wood wind Oboe– a wood
instrument that has a wind instrument
straight cylindrical with a double-reed
mouthpiece, a
tube with a flaring bell slender tubular
body and holes
and a single-reed stopped by keys.
mouth piece.
Piccolo–a high-
pitched woodwind
instrument used in
orchestras and
military bands.
Tenor Instruments
have a range that is higher than the baritone range but lower than the
alto range.

Tenor saxophone– a
Trombone– the medium-sized
sound is produced woodwind
when the player’s instrument that is
vibrating lips trigger very prominent in
the air column inside jazz groups and is
the device to vibrate. one of the essential
voices of a concert
or marching band.
Guitar– a stringed
musical instrument
with a fretted
fingerboard,
typically in curved
sides, have six or
twelve strings.
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