Wind Ensembles

This paper offers a series of characterizations of prototypical musical timbres, called Timbre Trait Profiles, for 34 musical instruments common in Western orchestras and wind ensembles. These profiles represent the results of a study in which 243 musician participants imagined the sounds of various instruments and used the 20-dimensional model of musical instrument timbre qualia proposed by Reymore and Huron (2020) to rate their auditory image of each instrument. The rating means are visualized through radar plots, which provide timbral-linguistic thumbprints, and are summarized through snapshot profiles, which catalog the six highest- and three lowest-rated descriptors. The Euclidean distances among instruments offer a quantitative operationalization of semantic distances; these distances are illustrated through hierarchical clustering and multidimensional scaling. Exploratory Factor Analysis is used to analyze the latent structure of the rating data. Finally, results are used to assess Reymore and Huron’s 20-dimensional timbre qualia model, suggesting that the model is highly reliable. It is anticipated that the Timbre Trait Profiles can be applied in future perceptual/cognitive research on timbre and orchestration, in music theoretical analysis for both close readings and corpus studies, and in orchestration pedagogy.

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Baroque Wind Ensembles

The Musical Times ◽

10.2307/960357 ◽

1975 ◽

Vol 116 (1586) ◽

pp. 349

Author(s):

Niall O'Loughlin ◽

Heinrich Biber ◽

H. Bruckner ◽

Schmelzer ◽

Giovanni Antonio Bertoli

Keyword(s):

Wind Ensembles

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Wind Ensembles

The Musical Times ◽

10.2307/954454 ◽

1969 ◽

Vol 110 (1515) ◽

pp. 523

Author(s):

Niall O'Loughlin

Keyword(s):

Wind Ensembles

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Wind Ensembles

The Musical Times ◽

10.2307/964926 ◽

1985 ◽

Vol 126 (1712) ◽

pp. 608

Author(s):

Niall O'Loughlin

Keyword(s):

Wind Ensembles

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From wind ensembles to probabilistic information about future wind power production ¿ results from an actual application

2006 International Conference on Probabilistic Methods Applied to Power Systems ◽

10.1109/pmaps.2006.360289 ◽

2006 ◽

Cited By ~ 20

Author(s):

Henrik Aalborg Nielsen ◽

Torben Skov Nielsen ◽

Henrik Madsen ◽

Gregor Giebel ◽

Jake Badger ◽

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Keyword(s):

Wind Power ◽

Power Production ◽

Wind Ensembles ◽

Probabilistic Information ◽

Actual Application

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Loyalties

10.5406/illinois/9780252037603.003.0004 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Philip Lambert

Keyword(s):

Small Groups ◽

Art Song ◽

Piano Music ◽

Original Compositions ◽

Musical Expression ◽

Wind Ensembles ◽

Concert Music ◽

The 1960S ◽

Dramatic Music ◽

Chamber Orchestras

This chapter studies Wilder's music in the 1960s. Continuing to follow trends he had begun at the end of the preceding decade, he wrote volumes of concert music for groups of all sizes in the 1960s, for wind ensembles and chamber orchestras and small groups and soloists with piano. He also wrote piano music, dramatic music of diverse kinds, and a handful of new songs, following traditional popular or art-song models. Also extending earlier trends, Wilder's loyalties to his artistic and ideological roots found musical expression through the efforts of loyal friends. As his travels and residencies and friendships multiplied, so did his catalog of original compositions perfectly suited for a faculty ensemble or senior recital or informal gathering in a college practice room or dormitory basement.

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