MTC 416 Orchestration Test Unit III: Woodwinds: online tests- flute, clarinet, double-reeds Unit IV: Brass: online tests- horn, heavy brass

Bach wrote for how many horns in the 1st Brandenburg concerto?

2

In Tannhauser Wagner writes for 2 natural and 4 piston horns

False

Wagner's Ring uses how many horns?

8

The standard place for the Horn staves in an orchestral score is above the Trumpets.

True

The descending order of the horn parts in a score is generally (by number)

1,3,2,4

Depressing the 2nd valve takes the horn's pitch down how far?

a minor second

Depressing all 3 valves at once -takes the Horns pitch down a tritone.

True

Most Horn music from the Classical period must be transposed at sight by the player.

True

The French term bouche means what in English?

plugged

Composers wanting an actual mute used (instead of hand-stopping) will write one of 3 possible terms (give just one)

sordini

The trombones are always notated in concert pitch

True

Tubas are never muted

False

The Bass-trumpet was invented by which composer?

wagner

The standard orchestral Tuba now in most common use is which?

C

Janacek writed for how many Trumpets in his Sinfonietta?

12

The smallest/highest Piccolo Trumpet (in Bb) is known among players by what nickname?

Pea Shooter

The many varieties of brass mutes encountered in the 20th century has resulted largely from the influence of what?

Jazz

A small bowler hat was first used as a mute by George Gershwin in what score?

Piano Concerto in F

Trombone slides are limited to what interval?

A Tritone

The standard orchestral trombone section consists of what instruments?

Two tenors, 1 bass

The French Term Hautbois translates as what

high wood

The heckelphones range begins an octave below what instrument?

oboe

The famous bassoon solo in Stravinskys The Rite of Spring begins on what pitch?

c

In his operatic trilogy The Ring of the Nibelungen Wagner requires the use of the contra-bassoon for just one pitch. Which one?

A

Bassoons of Beethovens time were softer than present day instruments.

false

In Mozarts time flute and oboe parts would have been played by the same player.

true

Which woodwind instrument has the smallest dynamic range?

bassoon

Bagpipes are limited to a non tonal scale of how many notes?________

7

An extreme pppppp on Clarinet is referred to as ____________________ .

ghosting

The lowest register of the clarinet, with its very distinctive sound quality is referred to as what?

the

chalumeau

The break of the clarinet occurs between written (transposed ) pitches A flat and B natural. Where is the break therefore in terms of sounding (concert) pitch.

G flat and A natural

According to your text, the smaller size clarinets can easily match the flute in terms of agility

True

The bottom (Chalumeau) register of the clarinet is a unfortunately a difficult range in which to play softly

False

The Italian term for flutter-tonguing (and therefore the term which musicians should properly use) is ___________

frullato

According to your text a true glissando can be achieved over the entire range of the clarinet

True

[Phrasing] In wind parts a change of slur will always presuppose the use of the _______________ to mark the start of a new phrase.

tongue

The lowest register of the flute timbrally resembles what instrument?

trumpet

. Flute harmonics are fingered at what interval below the desired pitch

an octave or 12th

The normal range of the flute extends how many octaves

exactly?_________

three

Some flutes have a special foot joint that extends the instrument down to_________

B

Even though the Piccolo is half the size and sounds exactly an octave higher - it's lowest pitch is in fact a

___________ an octave above middle C

D

The head joint (not the foot joint) of a flute can be also be pulled out to lower the pitch of the instrument.

True

Flutes and piccolos are in fact the only woodwind instruments without reeds.

True

The tone of the piccolo is full and powerful even it's lowest register.

False

Transpositions

Flute - C4-D7- no transposition

Oboe - Bb3-A6- no transposition

English Horn - B3-E6 - a minor 3rd lower

Clarinet in Eb - E3-C7 - a minor 3rd higher

Clarinet in Bb - E3-C7 - a whole step lower

Bass Clarinet in Bb - Eb3- G6 - a 9th lower

Bassoon - Bb1-Eb5 - no transposition

Horn - F32-C6 - a perfect fifth lower

Trumpet in C - F#3-D6 - as written no transposition

Trumpet in Bb - F#3-D6 - a whole step lower

Tenor Trombone - E2-F5 - a ninth lower

Bass Trombone - Bb1-Bb4

Tuba - D1-F4 - no transposition