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| | Discography: Ophicleide |
 | | The ophicleide is essentially the 8' (sounding length) version of the keyed bugle. | | | This CD includes several tracks employing a C ophicleide and its alto equivalent (the Eb quintclave): Conrad Fay:"Wrecker's Daughter Quickstep", Francis Johnson:"Dirge", and Louis Jullien:"Prima Donna Waltz." | | | This excellent Christmas CD features one track ("The First Nowell") for two ophicleides. |
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http://www.contrabass.com/pages/dis-oph.html
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| | Graham - Antique Brass Instruments - Links |
| | An ophicleide by C.J. Sax, and a metal oboe by Kohlert. | | | The Boston Eb SARV cornet and Pollet ophicleide have been sold. | | | The Eb flugelhorn and Cavalier trombone have been sold. |
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http://www.pipeline.com/~hgraham/pastnews.htm
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| | John's Ophicleide Directory |
| | Gloria Dei Cantores choir, Jennifer Ashe (Soprano), Douglas Yeo (serpent and contrabass serpent), Ben peck (buccin), Craig Kridel (serpent), Phil Humphries (serpent and ophicleide). | | | Doug has also recently performed on ophicleide with the BSO in the complete incidental music to Mendelssohn's "A Midsummer Nights Dream" (Seiji Ozawa) and Rossini's "The Siege Of Corinth" (James Conlon). | | | I generally have to take piano sheet music of the period and write arrangements in the style.....The music of the keyed bands apparently fell out of favour as the instruments did, so little survives". |
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http://www.wcwband.co.uk/ophicleide.htm
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| | International Tuba Euphonium Association |
| | As Dave Loucky mentions the diverse tone colors of the ophicleide, I continue to be astounded by the different textures of the serpent as Yeo blends his many sounds with voice, brass, woodwinds, and piano. | | | While we strive on modern brasses to match timbre from range to range and pride ourselves on achieving clear, centered tone at all times, the tone variation on the ophicleide can be more interesting for the listener. | | | I find the ophicleide to have amazing possibilities for expressiveness, in part because of its diverse tone colors in various tessituras. |
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http://www.iteaonline.org/Journal/31N2/31N2Historical.shtml
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| | Ophicleide.com Gallery page |
| | The volume of sound it emits is immense, but the tone is rich and round, and blends with the voices. | | | "He(Guilmartin) was engaged for the Promenade concerts in 1893, and, I believe, amongst other music, gave that familiar Ophicleide solo on the melody of "Oh Ruddier than the Cherry". | | | "Berlioz says that although the bass Ophicleide, in certain cases, does wonders beneath masses of brass instruments, it is monstrous to use it for solos. |
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http://www.ophicleide.com/articles/Gallery.htm
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| | Ophicleide |
| | The famous painting of the Besses'th'Barn Band (1860) shows that the Ophicleide was present in the early days of the brass band. | | | As I posted recently, I saw one in the Orchestra in the performance of Berlioz's Damnation of Faust recently broadcast from the BBC Promenade Concerts by the Australian ABC. | | | Ophicleide playing was not without its hazards, for in the 1860 Crystal Palace Band Competition, Staleybridge Band's chances of winning were ruined in the final when the ophicleide player got the keys of his instrument tangled in his waistcoat pocket. |
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http://abel.hive.no/trumpet/tpin/Ophicleide.html
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| | Friends and Relations: The Ophicleide |
| | All that has been said in favour of the baroque flute, oboe, and violin is doubly true of the ophicleide, as the instrument which replaces it belongs to a different family. | | | This is why the Symphonie Fantastique (1830) has two tuba (originally ophicleide) parts. | | | Such an instrument was, and is, the ophicleide. |
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http://www.trombone-society.org.uk/ophicleide.htm
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| | LE MONDE DU SERPENT Program Notes |
| | Phil graciously agreed to bring his serpent AND ophicleide to the session where we recorded the "Foxtrot." [Photo, left of Phil Humphries, Craig Kridel and Douglas Yeo, taken by Brad Michel in the Church of the Transfiguration, Orleans, Massachusetts. | | | With the serpent, as I explain in the other articles on in my website which are referenced above, I have played serpent in the Boston Symphony and with Boston Baroque, playing both in concert and recording sessions. | | | For Seiber's "Foxtrot," the decision to have Phil Humphries come to the final recording session for my CD to play ophicleide (more on that below) offered an opportunity to record a serpent trio with three players. |
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http://www.yeodoug.com/publications/le_monde_du_serpent/le_monde_du_serpent_notes.html
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| | An acoustical comparison of the serpent and the ophicleide. | | | Several acoustical investigation techniques, including input impedance analysis, pulse reflectometry and excitation by an artificial mouth, have been used to investigate the extent to which the ophicleide is a successful solution to the acoustical problems posed by the serpent. | | | Eleven or more side holes in the thin-walled metal tube are covered by lever-operated padded keys; these allow most notes to be obtained without cross fingering, and the size and placing of the holes are not limited by the anatomy of the human hand. |
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http://asa.aip.org/web2/asa/abstracts/search.dec00/asa708.html
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| | Ophicleide - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Nick Byrne's Wonderful World of the Ophicleide A site dedicated to the performance and study of the ophicleide, with pictures and audio examples. | | | Other famous works which use the ophicleide are Felix Mendelssohn's Overture to A Midsummer Night's Dream and Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique. | | | Its long tubing bends back on itself, and it has nine keys which cover the large tone holes. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ophicleide
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| | ophicleide perf prac |
| | Re: ophicleide perf prac Sam 20:45:27 2/18/2004 ( | | | More specifically, I am reseacrhing Berlioz's use of the instrument in Symphony Fantastique. | | | I am working on a performance practice topic having to do with the ophicleide. |
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http://www.chisham.com/tips/bbs/feb2004/messages/166114.html
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| | Serpent & Ophicleide Fingering Charts |
| | The pattern is for an ophicleide in B-flat; simply shift the pattern up one full step (two notes to the right on the chart) for ophicleides in C, or see the special chart further below.. | | | As with the above charts, to get a high resolution chart for printing, click on the link to get the large 300x300 DPI version; it will seem huge in your browser window, but don't worry. | | | By popular demand, here is a special version of the ophicleide fingering chart, with adjustments made for C instruments. |
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http://www.serpentwebsite.com/finger.htm
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| | Encyclopedia of Organ Stops |
| | Double Ophicleide 32', Pedal; Durham Cathedral, Durham, England; Harrison & Harrison 1905?. | | | Double Ophicleide 32', Pedal; King's College, Cambridge, England; Harrison & Harrison 1934. | | | Copyright © 2001 Edward L. Stauff, all rights reserved. |
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http://www.organstops.org/d/DoubleOphicleide.html
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| | A Lament for Sam Hughes |
| | The fate of the ophicleide and the story of Sam Hughes provide a neat illustration of the pace and character of musical change in Britain in the Victorian period. | | | He became professor of ophicleide at the Royal Military School of Music at Kneller Hall and at the Guildhall School of Music. | | | The exception was Sam Hughes, who by that time had left the world of brass bands and was swanning around London with his ophicleide. |
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http://www.trombone-society.org.uk/samhughes.htm
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| | Ophicleide 9 key in Bb 1845 French |
| | The Ophicleide was also made in Eb alto, C and contrabass. | | | The French used the instrument in many musical works well into the late | | | The instrument was used on both side of the |
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http://www.neillins.com/ophiclei.htm
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| | musical ophicleide instruments |
| | CLick here and enter in Musical Ophicleide Instruments | | | People who search for "musical ophicleide instruments" tried these terms: |
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http://musical-instruments.online.3000.co.uk/musical-ophicleide-instruments.html
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| | The ophicleide persisted longer in bands than in orchestras, but it was virtually obsolete by 1880. | | | Ophicleide [ahf'-i-klyd]: The ophicleide was a member of the keyed-bugel family of musical instruments, a transitional instrument between the older serpent, the bass of the cornetto family and the modern tuba. | | | Mendelssohn, Berlioz, and Wagner were among the composers who included the ophicleide in their scores, but few outstanding players seem to have existed. |
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http://www25.brinkster.com/dru123/offenders/tubas.html
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| | London Serpent Trio |
| | He played ophicleide on the seminal 1989 Roger Norrington recording of Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique and serpent on the subsequent recording of Berlioz's original version of the work. | | | is professor of Serpent and Ophicleide at the Royal Acadamy of Music. | | | In addition he has contributed the serpent part to many recordings of orchestral works, and also plays ophicleide. |
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http://www.whitecottagewebsites.co.uk/lst/personnel.html
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| | Music All Powerful |
| | with Jennifer Partridge (piano), Iona Brown (violin), Alan Lumsden (ophicleide), David King (speaker)] |
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http://www.medieval.org/emfaq/cds/arg596.htm
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| | Bass ophicleide |
| | The bass ophicleide was the most successful instrument and was found in orchestras, bands, and opera orchestras through the 1840s. | | | The ophicleide has nine to twelve side keys in the manner of woodwind instruments. | | | A tall, narrow bass brass instrument of the keyed bugle family invented in about 1817 in Paris by Jean-Hilaire Aste. |
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http://www.music.vt.edu/musicdictionary/textb/Bassophicleide.html
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| | Variations on the Baritone Horn and Euphonium |
| | Ophicleides were commonly used in orchestras and bands in the 19th century, Mendelssohn using it in "A Midsummer Night's Dream" (1826/42) and Berlioz employing two in his famous Symphonie Fantastique (1830). | | | The Sudrophone also had a unique feature--a mirliton or membrane device on the side of the bell which added a buzzing sound to the tone, simulating a string insturment. | | | Many sizes of ophicleides were made from alto down to quite large contrabass. |
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http://home.att.net/~bobbeecher/bari-euph/bari-euph.html
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| | Ophicleide.com Downloads page |
| | Download audio samples of the Ophicleide from this area of the site. | | | This page was last updated Monday, October 31, 2005 |
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http://www.ophicleide.com/articles/Audio.htm
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| | Who is the greatest OPHICLEIDE Musician in the World - BESTandWORST.com |
| | OPHICLEIDE is Brass/saxophoe used in 19th century and is very scarce.Civil War bands used them. | | | Who is the greatest OPHICLEIDE Musician in the World - BESTandWORST.com | | | Most PETA members would love to become an animal, but, do you think an animal would want to become a PETA member? |
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http://www.bestandworst.com/pages/vote/vote-26811.html
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| | PRS Historic Music |
| | The instrument was then owned by the late Phil Palmer. | | | Eventually, I was asked to take over the editing and publication of The Serpent Newsletter, a publication for enthusiasts of the serpent, ophicleide and related instruments. | | | A search around the country turned up an example that was in good shape and played well enough to be used with modern instruments as well as old ones. |
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http://home.earthlink.net/~ocleide/historic_music.htm
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| | Tempted by a Serpent |
| | When called for, I also play bass trumpet, contrabass trombone and ophicleide in the Boston Symphony Orchestra and have been known to play harmonica in a rock band. | | | In the recent BSO performances, the part of the buccin and ophicleide was performed on a baritone horn by the BSO's tuba player, Chester Schmitz. | | | Being constructed entirely of metal and being upright, however, the ophicleide is closer to the modern baritone horn than the serpent it quickly replaced. |
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http://www.yeodoug.com/articles/serpent/serpent.html
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| | CD Spotlight. Marshalling the ophicleides - Charles Munch conducts Symphonie Fantastique, reviewed by Robert Anderson. ... |
| | Shaw wondered more appositely if the English listener could understand 'the blasphemous mockery' of the Dies irae, for which Berlioz marshals his ophicleides. | | | Marshalling the ophicleides - Charles Munch conducts Symphonie Fantastique, reviewed by Robert Anderson. | | | Maybe in the midst is some reference to the 'bellowing ophicleide', so essential to the 'Witches' Sabbath' but so rarely to be discovered in a modern orchestra, let alone the pair of them that Berlioz requests. |
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http://www.mvdaily.com/articles/2004/02/berlioz3.htm
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| | Indiana Brass Band |
| | And, the desire to try one of these beasts was fulfilled when the Indiana Brass Band gave me the opportunity to learn to to play one. | | | However, it should be noted that the fingerings can vary from instrument to instrument, as there are a number of alternate fingerings which seem to work better on some horns than on others. | | | It can play from 3 lines below the bass clef staff, to three lines above the staff. |
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http://www.wildcatband.com/oph.html
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| | ophiclei |
| | Then appeared a closely related musical topic, the Ophicleide. | | | Its pitch was vague; its tone was din; Its timbre, rude and burpant. | | | Composers, in a secret vote, Declared its sound non grata; And that's why Wagner never wrote An Ophicleide Sonata. |
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http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/MShaneMcl/ophiclei.htm
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| | David Loucky |
| | by Maurice Ravel - David Loucky on ophicleide, Polly Brecht, piano | | | Romance for Ophicleide and Piano by Carl Maria von Weber-David Loucky on | | | Loucky performs on a period 19th century ophicleide, the predecessor of the tuba and euphonium. |
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http://www.mtsu.edu/~music/loucky.html
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| | Ophicleide.com Reference page |
| | Kummer, 'Variations for Ophicleide', Studio Music, London, very entertaining, very difficult introductions and variations, c. | | | Described by Berlioz as the only player "proficient" on the Ophicleide in Paris(Memoirs,P.405) Caussinus' 'Solfege-Methode pour L'Ophicleide-Basse' incorporates scales,arpegios,ornaments,duets and studies in two complete albums. | | | For a Halari fingering chart for Ophicleide in C click |
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http://www.ophicleide.com/articles/Reference.htm
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| | Sydney Symphony |
| | Click the 'listen' icon above to discover this work. | | | The ophicleide, a member of the bugle family, was a popular instrument in the early 19th century. | | | Few works evoke the fairytale world of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream more vividly than Mendelssohn’s Overture, written when he was 17 for an orchestra which includes an ophicleide! |
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http://www.sydneysymphony.com/event_detail.asp?s=171
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| | MSN Encarta - Ophicleide |
| | Ophicleide, in music, an obsolete brass instrument of the bugle family, developed in Paris, France in 1821. |
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http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_762506616/Ophicleide.html
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| | Brass Family History |
| | The bass version of the cornett is said to be the forerunner of the serpent, which, in its turn, became the ophicleide from which emerged the tuba. | | | Berlioz wrote for the ophicleide in 1830 in his Symphonie Fantastique but by 1850 he had included a footnote allowing the ophicleide part to be substituted by the tuba. | | | The serpent was eventually replaced by the ophicleide but, as with most early instruments, enthusiasts for authentic performance have revitalised its use. |
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http://www.classicol.com/classical.cfm?music=instrumentInfo§ion=BrassHistory&title=Brass%20Family%20History#Cornett
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| | ophicleide on Encyclopedia.com |
| | OPHICLEIDE [ophicleide] [Gr.,=serpent with keys], brass wind musical instrument of relatively wide conical bore, largest of the keyed bugles ; invented in 1817 by Jean-Hilaire Asté of Paris. |
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http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/o1/ophiclei.asp
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| | The Tuba: Its Historical Development and Use |
| | This instrument was superior to the ophicleide in intonation and tone quality, and gradually took the place of the ophicleide in ensembles. | | | Inevitably, the tuba appeared in an increasing number of orchestras, taking the place of the ophicleide. | | | The ophicleide was used well into the final quarter of the nineteenth century. |
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http://axe.acadiau.ca/~067052o/transition.htm
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| | Guardian Berlioz the brigand |
| | Weimar: no cor anglais, no ophicleide; its part is played by a "tolerably powerful" bombardon. | | | The brigands of the Abruzzi would have known what to do with them. | | | Leipzig: the cor anglais is hopelessly out of tune. |
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/print/0,3858,4095048-103677,00.html
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| | From 1820 to around 1840, ophicleides of many different sizes were very popular among western European and British brass bands. | | | A legacy of Brass Dragons and Serpents: The ophicleide is a metal instrument with a cup-shaped mouthpiece and a deep resonating tone. | | | Works by Wagner, Mendelssohn, and Verdi feature this instrument, but by the mid-century, ophicleides were frequently replaced by tubas. |
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http://www.cartage.org.lb/en/themes/Arts/music/occidetalmusic/Musicalinstruments/Wind/Ophicleide/Ophicleide.htm
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| | ophicleide [Gr.,=serpent with keys], brass wind musical instrument of relatively wide conical bore, largest of the keyed |
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http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/ent/A0836722.html
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| | Ophicleide in Bb (Gautrot aîné, Paris, c 1860) |
| | The ophicleide was very widely used as a bass instrument in the middle years of the last century in wind music of many kinds; it also appeared occasionally as a virtuoso solo instrument. | | | Unlike the serpent, the ophicleide had large tone-holes, almost the diameter of the tubing on which they are mounted, all of which are covered by keys. | | | Ophicleide in Bb (Gautrot aîné, Paris, c 1860) |
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http://www.music.ed.ac.uk/euchmi/ujt/ujt3590.html
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| | Al's Tenor Horn Page - Tuba History |
| | To do these instruments justice, however, Wagner, who loved a lush tone-palate, wrote supporting passages for the serpent, and demand for the ophicleide remained such that it lasted until the early 20th century. | | | Though this researcher can never hope to do justice to this instrument in so short a piece, it nevertheless is my hope that this overview will provide the basis from which to form meaningful direction and questions in the minds of those who wish to know more about this instrument, its origins and related instruments. | | | Hector Berlioz’ remarks concerning the serpent and ophicleide are well-documented and uniformly uncomplimentary. |
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http://home.earthlink.net/~tenorhorn/tubahistory.html
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| | MSN Encarta - Ophicleide |
| | Ophicleide, brass instrument of the bugle family, developed in Paris in 1821. |
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http://uk.encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_762506616/Ophicleide.html
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| | The Tuba - for TRUE Heavy Metal Music...Harrison Greene First Chair |
| | he tuba is derived from the ophicleide, a type of keyed bugle used in the 1800's before the musical community embraced valved brass instruments, the ophicleide itself the successor to the serpent. | | | To see all this variety, one need only attend a Tubachristmas - the selection of instruments people bring to play is simply staggering. | | | With a total range of four octaves (and more - unmatched by most other instruments), the tuba has a lot to offer that hasn't yet been fully utilized. |
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http://www.qualitydentistry.com/extra/tuba.html
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| | Encyclopedia of Organ Stops |
| | Not part of the original Hill instrument of 1835. | | | While most sources describe the Ophicleide as a striking reed, Wedgwood claims that it is sometimes a free reed “on the continent” (Europe). | | | Ophicleide 8', Orchestral Solo; Town Hall, Leeds, England; Gray & Davison 1859. |
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http://www.organstops.org/o/Ophicleide.html
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| | ophicleide |
| | For those who don't know, an ophicleide is a half-tuba half-woodwind instrument... | | | I have never heard of the ophicleide before this year, and lately I've seen quite a few posts on this BBS with references to it. | | | Do professional orchestra just have the tuba player play the part or do they seek out |
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http://www.chisham.com/tips/bbs/oct2002/messages/110782.html
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| | euphworld Home |
| | The introduction of the first valved instrument to fulfill the role previously occupied by the serpent and then the ophlicleide is generally credited to Sommer of Weimar, Germany about 1843 with his invention he called the "euphonion". | | | This is untrue, but it stems from an account that the euphonium comes from an instrument known as the ophicleide. | | | Many think of it as an instrument of Adolp Sax's (creator of the saxophone). |
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http://pubpages.unh.edu/~tccronin/pages/history.html
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| | A Visit to the Richard Wagner Museum and House at Tribschen, Lucerne, Switzerland |
| | On opening night of the 2001-02 Boston Symphony season, I played ophicleide on the complete incidental music to Mendelssohn's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" conducted by Seiji Ozawa, marking the first time an ophicleide had ever been played in the Boston Symphony. | | | In November 2001, Gennady Rozhdestvensky conducted the Boston Symphony in the Overture to Wagner's first opera, "Das Liebesverbot." The score calls for an ophicleide and Rozhdestvensky was happy to have me play the part on the instrument for which the part was written. | | | This photo is a closer view of the serpent at the Wagner Museum. |
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http://www.yeodoug.com/articles/wagner_museum/wagnermuseum.html
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