bassoons

Wind instruments such as bassoons, flutes and oboes were paired.

About.com Music Education 2010

This descending motif, like a windswept downpour, is answered by an equally powerful rising motif in the double basses, bassoons and trombones, suggesting wind-lashed whitecaps on Lake Lucerne, where the opera takes place.

The Splendid Start to a Farewell to Opera Barrymore Laurence Scherer 2011

Some of the groups, such as the one of mechanical wind-instrument geeks, had their own rooms with terrine-style displays of items of interest such as working valves from tuba-like items, odd keys from unusual bassoons, and interesting bits of other, lesser known instruments - things which I had no idea could be so complex and magical.

Archive 2009-04-01 Heather McDougal 2009

The instrumental choirs often played separately and set a mood: When the recorders played, their delicacy was the point, contrasted with the more raucous oboes or bassoons.

The Sad Tale It Tells Is Myth; Its Joys, Real Heidi Waleson 2011

Some of the groups, such as the one of mechanical wind-instrument geeks, had their own rooms with terrine-style displays of items of interest such as working valves from tuba-like items, odd keys from unusual bassoons, and interesting bits of other, lesser known instruments - things which I had no idea could be so complex and magical.

DreamCon 2009 Heather McDougal 2009

Here the violins, flute and piccolo, playing near the top of their range, are answered by a weighty gesture by the trombones, bassoons, cellos and basses.

The Splendid Start to a Farewell to Opera Barrymore Laurence Scherer 2011

Two clarinets, two bassoons, two horns, timpani and the strings present the first phrase — marked pianissimo.

The Splendid Start to a Farewell to Opera Barrymore Laurence Scherer 2011

An opera score to William Shield's "Rosina," first performed at Covent Garden in 1782, contains a quotation of the melody over a bagpipe-like drone of bassoons and clarinets.

Visiting an Auld Acquaintance Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim 2011

Then it subsides, until nothing is left but scattered raindrops as the thunder of the timpani dies away beneath a descending line of clarinets, bassoons, violas and cellos.

The Splendid Start to a Farewell to Opera Barrymore Laurence Scherer 2011

In the 18th century, an orchestra consisted of strings, two oboes, bassoons or flutes, the odd clarinet, two horns and an occasional trumpet and drums.

How the great symphonies became our soundtrack to a changing world 2011