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low brass

American  

noun

  1. an alloy of about 80 percent copper and 20 percent zinc, with traces of lead and iron.


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As a retired Fairmont State University music theory and low brass professor, Schooley’s career in music is not quite finished.

From Washington Times • Jan. 15, 2018

As her phrase is ending, the low brass players interrupt it, and build up a very, very short, big climax and the famous act ending, with this very significant rhythm motif.

From New York Times • Oct. 29, 2015

In the work's compelling opening movement, "Prophecy", the propulsive, lurching low brass and searing broad string theme pushed forward with the force of a digger churning up the world to expose its molten core.

From The Guardian • Jan. 30, 2011

The sternly martial undergirding of the low brass further stressed the score's kinship with the tone poems of Richard Strauss.

From Chicago Tribune • Jan. 21, 2011

Phyllis put her feet on the low, brass fender, and tucked in her skirt.

From Old Valentines A Love Story by Havens, Munson Aldrich

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