Glossary

NOUN:

1. A low-pitched sound or tone.
2. The tones in the lowest register of an instrument.
3. 1. A male singing voice of the lowest range.
   2. A singer who has such a voice.
   3. An instrument that sounds within this range.
   4. Abbr. B A vocal or instrumental part written within this range.
4. An instrument, especially a double bass, that produces tones in a low register.

ADJECTIVE:

1. Having a deep tone.
2. Low in pitch.

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A low-pitched woodwind instrument with a double reed, having a long wooden body attached to a U-shaped lateral tube that leads to the mouthpiece. The range of this instrument is typically two octaves lower than that of the oboe.

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it is a pattern of stress that produces the rhythm of verse. A steady musical pulse.

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A yellowish alloy of copper and zinc, sometimes including small amounts of other metals, but usually 67 percent copper and 33 percent zinc.Ornaments, objects, or utensils made of this alloy.

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2. A wind instrument, such as the French horn or the trombone, made of brass or other metal. Sound is produced through vibration of the lips and adjustment of the length of the sound tube by means of valves or a slide.

VERB:

1. To make a low droning or vibrating sound like that of a bee.
2. To move quickly and busily; bustle.
3. To make a signal with a buzzer.

NOUN:

1. A vibrating, humming, or droning sound.
2. A low murmur: a buzz of talk.
3. A telephone call: Give me a buzz at nine.

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A fitted covering used to seal a well or large pipe.

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pl. cel·los

A four-stringed musical instrument of the violin family, pitched lower than the viola but higher than the double bass.

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1. An apparatus for striking a bell or set of bells to produce a musical sound.
2. Music A set of tuned bells used as an orchestral instrument. Often used in the plural.
3. A single bell, as in the mechanism of a clock.
4. The sound produced by or as if by a bell or bells.

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A woodwind instrument having a straight cylindrical tube with a flaring bell and a single-reed mouthpiece, played by means of finger holes and keys.

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1. Mathematics
   1. The surface generated by a straight line intersecting and moving along a closed plane curve, the directrix, while remaining parallel to a fixed straight line that is not on or parallel to the plane of the directrix.
   2. The portion of such a surface bounded by two parallel planes and the regions of the planes bounded by the surface.
   3. A solid bounded by two parallel planes and such a surface, especially such a surface having a circle as its directrix.
2. A cylindrical container or object.

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A percussion instrument consisting of a concave brass plate that makes a loud clashing tone when hit with a drumstick or when used in pairs.

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The largest bowed stringed instrument in the modern orchestra, also used frequently in jazz ensembles, especially played pizzicato. The double bass, usually considered a member of the violin family, is tuned in fourths and has the sloping shoulders and flat back characteristic of the viols. It has a deep range, going as low as three octaves below middle C. Also called bass fiddle, bass viol, bull fiddle, contrabass, string bass.

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1. 1. A percussion instrument consisting of a hollow cylinder or hemisphere with a membrane stretched tightly over one or both ends, played by beating with the hands or sticks.
   2. A sound produced by this instrument.
2. Something resembling a drum in shape or structure, especially a barrellike metal container or a metal cylinder wound with cable, wire, or heavy rope.

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1. Music
   1. A high-pitched woodwind instrument consisting of a slender tube closed at one end with keys and finger holes on the side and an opening near the closed end across which the breath is blown. Also calledtransverse flute.
   2. Any of various similar reedless woodwind instruments, such as the recorder.

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A valved brass wind instrument that produces a mellow tone from a long narrow tube that is coiled in a circle before ending in a flaring bell.

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A percussion instrument with a series of metal bars tuned to the chromatic scale and played with two light hammers.

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One of the padded wooden pieces of a piano that strikes the strings.

A part of an apparatus that strikes a gong or bell, as in a clock.

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 1. A button or lever that is depressed with the finger to produce or modulate the sound of an instrument, such as a clarinet or piano.

2. A tonal system consisting of seven tones in fixed relationship to a tonic, having a characteristic key signature and being the structural foundation of the bulk of Western music; tonality.

3. The pitch of a voice or other sound.

4. A characteristic tone or level of intensity, as of a speech or sales campaign. Often used in combination:high-key; low-key.

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A part, as of a musical instrument or a telephone, that functions in or near the mouth.

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1. A slender woodwind instrument with a conical bore and a double-reed mouthpiece, having a range of three octaves and a penetrating, poignant sound.
2. A reed stop in an organ that produces a sound similar to that of the oboe.

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1. A large group of musicians who play together on various instruments, usually including strings, woodwinds, brass instruments, and percussion instruments.

2. The instruments played by such a group.

3. The area in a theater or concert hall where the musicians sit, immediately in front of and below the stage. 

4. The front section of seats nearest the stage in a theater.

5. The entire main floor of a theater.

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One of the pins of a stringed instrument that are turned to tighten or slacken the strings so as to regulate their pitch.

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An instrument, such as a drum, xylophone, piano, or maraca, in which sound is produced by one object striking another or by being scraped or shaken.

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One who plays percussion instruments.

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pl. pi·an·os

A musical instrument with a manual keyboard actuating hammers that strike wire strings, producing sounds that may be softened or sustained by means of pedals.

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A small pipe that, when sounded, gives the initial pitch for a piece of music or the standard pitch for tuning an instrument.

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Pitch is the position of a tone in the musical scale, today designated by a letter name and determined by the frequency of vibration of the source of the tone.

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1. Music A primitive wind instrument made of a hollow reed stalk.
2. Music
   1. A flexible strip of cane or metal set into the mouthpiece or air opening of certain instruments to produce tone by vibrating in response to a stream of air.
   2. An instrument, such as an oboe or clarinet, that is fitted with a reed.
3. A narrow movable frame fitted with reed or metal strips that separate the warp threads in weaving.

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1. The pattern of musical movement through time.
2. A specific kind of such a pattern, formed by a series of notes differing in duration and stress.

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A woodwind instrument with a single-reed mouthpiece and a usually curved conical metal tube, including soprano, alto, tenor, and baritone sizes.

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pl. sym·pho·nies

1. Music
   1. An extended piece in three or more movements for symphony orchestra.
   2. An instrumental passage in a vocal or choral composition.
   3. An instrumental overture or interlude, as in early opera.
2. Music
   1. A symphony orchestra.
   2. An orchestral concert.
3. Harmony, especially of sound or color.
4. Something characterized by a harmonious combination of elements.

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A gong having a metal disk struck with a felt-covered hammer or stick used in a gamelan orchestra.

 Timpani, or kettledrums, are musical instruments in the percussion family. A type of drum, they consist of a skin called a head stretched over a large bowl traditionally made of copper. They are played by striking the head with a specialized drum stick called a timpani stick or timpani mallet. 

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A percussion instrument consisting of a piece of metal in the shape of a triangle open at one angle.

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A brass instrument consisting of a long cylindrical tube bent upon itself twice, ending in a bell-shaped mouth, and having a movable U-shaped slide for producing different pitches.

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A soprano brass wind instrument consisting of a long metal tube looped once and ending in a flared bell, the modern type being equipped with three valves for producing variations in pitch.

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1. A large, valved, brass wind instrument with a bass pitch.
2. A reed stop in an organ, having eight-foot pitch.

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A device in a brass wind instrument that permits change in pitch by a rapid varying of the air column in a tube.

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1. The act of vibrating.
2. The condition of being vibrated

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A stringed instrument of the violin family, slightly larger than a violin, tuned a fifth lower, and having a deeper, more sonorous tone.

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A stringed instrument played with a bow, having four strings tuned at intervals of a fifth, an unfretted fingerboard, and a shallower body than the viol and capable of great flexibility in range, tone, and dynamics.

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1. A wind instrument in which sound is produced by the vibration of reeds in the mouthpiece, as a bassoon, clarinet, oboe, or saxophone, or by the passing of air across the mouthpiece, as a flute.
2. woodwinds
   1. The section of a band or orchestra composed of woodwind instruments.
   2. Woodwind instruments or their players considered as a group.

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A percussion instrument consisting of a mounted row of wooden bars graduated in length to sound a chromatic scale, played with two small mallets.