Did André Rieu make the Johann Strauss orchestra?

The orchestra has traditionally excluded two "band" instruments from its ranks: the saxophone and the euphonium.

The Brass Family is one of the oldest families of the orchestra and includes the trumpet, French horn, tuba and trombone, which are all made of brass! Sound is produced when a brass player buzzes his or her lips into a cup-shaped mouthpiece to produce vibrating air.

The strings are the largest family of instruments in the orchestra and they come in four sizes: the violin, which is the smallest, viola, cello, and the biggest, the double bass, sometimes called the contrabass.

Benjamin Britten

A person who conducts an orchestra can be called a Conductor or a Maestro and the stick which he waves is knows as the baton.

In most modern musical notation, a trill is generally indicated with the letters tr (or sometimes simply t) above the trilled note. This has sometimes been followed by a wavy line, and sometimes, in the baroque and early classical periods, the wavy line was used on its own.

Trumpet

Four sections

Solo concerto A solo concerto is a musical form which features a single solo instrument with the melody line, accompanied by an orchestra. Traditionally, there are three movements in a solo concerto, consisting of a fast section, a slow and lyrical section, and then another fast section.

The brass family members that are most commonly used in the orchestra include the trumpet, French horn, trombone, and the tuba.

The string section is the largest in the orchestra. It is comprised of instruments that derive their musical sound from the vibration of tuned strings. The orchestra contains two large groups of violins, plus groups of the violin's larger, lower-pitched relatives: the viola, the cello, and the double bass.

The Moody Blues: June 20, 1996 As Jane Scott writes in The Plain Dealer, the band has been playing since 1992 with orchestra members put together in each city on their tour. For this one, 65 members of the Cleveland Chamber Orchestra were on stage, under direction of The Moody Blues' long-time conductor, Larry Baird.

'The most obvious role of the Leader is liaising with the conductor in rehearsals to help the Orchestra interpret their ideas and make them sound as they imagine. ... This mainly affects the string section, but may also influence the rest of the Orchestra.

Paul Whiteman

The Four Families of the Orchestra Each family is grouped by the way the instrument produces vibration. This kind of classification gives us the string family, the woodwind family, the brass family and the percussion family.