Question

Sudject: Music. Hello I want to do the piano.

Find and submit ten (10) Web sites related to ONE instrument you'd like to research. You may choose from any of the instruments featured in the course. Examples of valid instruments include (but are not limited to): the oboe, the mezzo-soprano voice, and the guitar.

Your submission must include:

Two sites for each one of the categories listed below

A short paragraph presenting your research in each category

The categories are:

History and/or Manufacturers:
Information about well-known makers and the instrument's history. If you choose the voice as your instrument, concentrate on its history.

Two Famous Performers for your Instrument:
Do not restrict yourself to any particular period or style. For example, if your favorite instrument is guitar, you may choose Eric Clapton and John Williams.

Two Famous composers for your Instrument:
Again, do not restrict yourself to any particular period or style. An example of a relevant web site is the Leonard Bernstein site at the Library of Congress. Did Bernstein write any pieces for your favorite instrument?

Six Repertoire Pieces for your Instrument and their Composers' Names:
What are the most famous pieces written for your chosen instrument? Submit a list of six famous pieces written for the instrument, and two (2) sites that were sources for the information. Here's a site that might help: www.naxos.com.

Two Famous Symphony Orchestras:
Your favorite instrument will likely be part of a traditional symphony orchestra, such as the one you studied in the Orchestral Timbres class. This should not be confused with a piece of music called a symphony, or a concerto, which is a piece of music for a solo instrument and orchestra. I am looking for the performing group. Please submit and comment on two (2) symphony orchestra websites. Even if the instrument you choose is not a regular member of the symphony orchestra, search two symphony orchestra websites and include what you find in your report.

Answer 1

My favorite instrument is Tuba

Tuba-History

https://www.vsl.co.at/en/Bass_tuba/History_01

http://www.blackdiamondbrass.com/tbahist/tubahist.htm

This website very percisely shows the history of tuba. It tells us about the predecessors of modern tuba which were the serpent, serpentone, tuba curva, ophicleids and bombardon. The site also has good collection of pictures. Other names of tuba are sausaphone, baritone and euphonium

Tuba Manufactures

http://www.dwerden.com/Links/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baritone_and_Euphonium_Manufacturers

A person looking for tuba might get help from these sites to find out what might be good and what they might not purchase. These sites help tuba players and experts to post information about what they like or not about the tuba from various manufactures.

Tuba- Famous Composers

https://www.wagner-tuba.com/composers-works/

This site list famous composers of tuba music like Richard Wagner, Anton Bruckner and also modern day composers like Stephen Caudel, Andrew Downes.

http://www.musicsalesclassical.com/composer/long-bio/elisabeth-lutyens

This site provides biological information on the comnposer Elisabeth Lutyens who composed Quincunx which was performed by Four Wagnerian tubas.

Famous Performers- Tuba

https://musicians.allaboutjazz.com/tom-bass

This site contains information about Tom Abbs . He is a multi-instrumentalist who plays cello, brass and tuba and is also a filmmaker. He plays all styles of music jazz, classical, rock.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_Jacobs
This site contains information about the Arnold jacobs. For the Chicago Symphony Orchestra the was the main tubist for almost 52 years.

Six Repertoire Pieces for Tuba

https://www.wqxr.org/story/280157-philadelphia-orchestras-carol-jantsch-names-her-top-5-tuba-pieces/

This site provides the top five pieces for tuba that carol Jantsch enjoys the most.

a) Serge Prokofiev - "Symphony No. 5"

b) Miles Davis - " Birth of the cool"

c) Victor Ewald Quartet - " Brass Quintet No. 1"

d) George Gershwin-" An American in Paris"

e) Michael Daughtery-"Reflections on the Mississippi"

http://www.dansr.com/wick/resources/top-repertoire-choices-for-tuba

Aaron Tindall, a famous tubist from london list his favorite pieces of tuba repertoire:

a) "concerto for Tuba"- John williams

b) "sonate for bass Tuba and Piano"- Paul Hindemith

c) "six studies in English Folksong"- Ralph Vaughan

d) Variations in olden Style"- Thomas stevens

Orchestral websitess are:

https://cso.org/
This site is of Chicago Symphony Orchestra . This site has links to buy tickets, see their performance calendar, read about the members of orchestra and thr group of musicians or become a sponsor.

http://themiso.org/index.php?lang=en
This site provides information about MISO- Miami symphony Orchestra. On this link we can buy tickets, see their upcoming events and also see the mini or press clips of the event.