Music in the making; Woodwinds of the orchestra

Music in the making. Produced by Millikan university under a grant from the Educational Television and Radio Center in cooperation with the National Association of educational broadcasters. Milliken School of Music presents Altenburg stellar assistant professor of music and conductor of the Milliken civic orchestra. In a recorded consideration of the woodwinds of the orchestra. These are the woodwinds. By their very nature they are not a blending family. We might divide the woodwinds into three groups the double reads including the

oboe and bassoon the clarinet which uses a single reed on a hard mouthpiece and the flute which produces its tone by blowing across a hole the flute in its upper register has a brilliant somewhat piercing tone quality capable of cutting through an entire orchestra. Its lower register is soft and mellow used either to round out tonal qualities of other instruments or it may be used as a solo instrument playing alone or with strings muted or plucked. The oboe with its double read suggests Oriental mysticism and is

frequently used for solo passages. The clarinet has a mysterious lower register and a brilliant high register. It is very flexible and can play either complements or solo passages. But as soon as a comedian of the woodwind family because of its tone quality in the low register. But even though it uses a double reed its upper register takes on a transparent quality that is very much like the human voice 0.

0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0. The different ways of producing tones on the various woodwinds give each one of them a distinct tonal characteristic or what we might call a tambor. But it is this difference of tambour that produces a different color when they play together. The nasal biting quality of the oboe is dulled when the flute doubles the oboe part in the same register the flute loses itself and mellowing the oboe tone.

Brilliance is obtained when the Treble woodwinds the flute the oboe and the clarinet play in octaves. The French horn is added to the forward wins to form a woodwind quintet. Listen to the overall color produced by their individual sounds. Wider maker was the condo and quickened tempo produces still another color

one of gayety and for volunteer as only the woodwind so playful he can do. When the woodwinds fought their way to their rightful place in the orchestra new portals were open for composers. Some seize the opportunity immediately and others hesitated until the results were heard. Listen to the woodwinds display their playful prominence in the scouts all from A Midsummer Night's Dream by Mendelssohn. The

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Professor Elton Berg's dollar has brought you a record in consideration of the woodwinds of the

orchestra. Music in the making was produced by Milliken university under a grant from the Educational Television Radio Center. This program is distributed by the National Association of educational broadcasters. This is the end E.B. Radio Network.