Guide to the Orchestral Instruments – Introduction
Following on from our successful series, the MyMusicTheory Guide to Music History, our new series is all about orchestral instruments.
First we’ll take a look at how a modern day symphony orchestra is organised, and then we’ll examine each of the four families of instruments in more detail.
We’ll take a look at how each kind of instrument produces sound, how it’s made, what its characteristics are and, of course, what it sounds like! As usual, we’ll add plenty of musical examples to illustrate each point.
We hope this series will be useful and interesting for anyone who is interested in knowing more about musical instruments, and in particular those taking GCSE or A level music, or preparing for music theory exams (where some knowledge of instruments is required from grade five music theory onwards).
Here is a list of all the posts in this series:
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James
September 10, 2015 at 2:15 pm (UTC 1) Link to this comment
Hello, maybe this is a strange request or maybe you cannot do it, but I am looking to get into Bagpipe playing and I am scouring the internet for any kind of guidance!
Regards,
James
Victoria
September 11, 2015 at 9:09 am (UTC 1) Link to this comment
Hi James!
I’m afraid I know nothing about bagpipes, but here’s an idea – you could join the Bagpipe community on Facebook – I’m sure there will some help available in there! https://www.facebook.com/Bagpipers-386781241433030/timeline/
James
September 15, 2015 at 7:49 am (UTC 1) Link to this comment
thank you so much!
Preksh
September 30, 2015 at 11:11 am (UTC 1) Link to this comment
Nice article about musical instruments.
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