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
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
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
The Antar melody plays in the clangor of big climax in sonorous tones of the low brass, against a quick martial phrase of trumpets and horns.
From Symphonies and Their Meaning; Third Series, Modern Symphonies by Goepp, Philip H.
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