low brass
Americannoun
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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
Woodwinds hector and interject with insouciance; wah-wah trumpets bait and cackle; the low brass clusters with snark and support; the strings intone with gloomy sincerity.
From New York Times ● Feb. 13, 2015
Short slow motifs of a few notes sound in the basses and low brass, then fade away.
From New York Times ● Feb. 14, 2014
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
At either end of the low brass fender, Miss Mitty and Miss Matoaca sat very erect, like two delicate silhouettes, the red light of the flames shining through their fine, almost transparent profiles.
From The Romance of a Plain Man by Glasgow, Ellen Anderson Gholson
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