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	Elements Of Jazz: Ensembles: Instruments: Chordal Instruments
		Chordal instruments are often offered a chance to solo as well.
		It is somewhat unusual to have more than one instrument from this category in a group, except for the guitar, which is often used in conjunction with another chordal instrument.
		When a chordal instrument is providing accompaniment without the benefit of bass or percussion, the player often takes on the roles of the missing instruments as well.
	www.outsideshore.com /school/music/almanac/html/Elements_Of_Jazz/Ensembles/Instruments/Chordal_Instruments.htm (333 words)

	Simple Chordal Harmony
		Another very common way to play simple chordal accompaniments is to alternate playing the bass note of the chord and the rest of the chord.
		This kind of harmony is unusual in classical music and also in professionally produced popular musics, but it is very common in Western music wherever people are making music for their own enjoyment: folk musics, sing-alongs, informal dances, children's music, some styles of sacred music, and amateurs playing pop music for fun.
		They may be willing to provide the melody also, on their instrument or vocally, or they may be able to provide a soloist or may ask the class to help by singing the melody.
	cnx.rice.edu /content/m11875/latest (1007 words)

	music encyclopedia C (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Diatonic instruments such as the harmonica, melodeon and dulcimer lack sharps and flats, and so can only play in one key (although the harmonica and melodeon might have buttons for extra notes, allowing another key or two, and the dulcimer can be retuned).
		The continuo or basso continuo was a necessary part of instrumental music, but gradually fell into disuse towards the end of the 18th century, while remaining an important element in the accompaniment of operatic recitative.
		The instrument is of ancient origin, but its more modern use occurs first principally in the later 18th century, as part of the Turkish music used, for example, by Mozart in The Abduction from the Seraglio (Die Entführung aus dem Serail).
	www.traditionalmusic.co.uk /traditional-music/ency/c.htm (14239 words)

	Chordal instrument - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Chordal instrument
		Musical instrument that produces a sound when a stretched string is made to vibrate.
		Types of string instruments include: bowed, the violin family and viol family; plucked, the guitar, ukulele, lute, sitar, harp, banjo, and lyre;; plucked mechanically, the harpsichord;; struck mechanically, the piano and clavichord;; and hammered, the dulcimer.
		This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Chordal+instrument (136 words)

	Essentials of Music - Glossary
		Wind instrument popular in Eastern and Western Europe that has several tubes, one of which plays the melody while the others sound the drones, or sustained notes; a windbag is filled by either a mouth pipe or a set of bellows (uilleann pipes).
		Plucked-string instrument with round body in the form of a single-headed drum and a long, fretted neck; brought to the Americas from Africa by early slaves.
		The principal orchestral instruments of the brass family, from highest to lowest, are: trumpet, French horn, trombone and tuba.
	www.essentialsofmusic.com /glossary/b.html (738 words)

	Giulio Caccini Biography - famous Giulio Caccini Classical collection and Giulio Caccini Music Reviews.
		He won a reputation as a singer and was associated with the early discussions of the Florentine Camerata that led to his use of the so-called stile recitativo, the style of singing that followed, as far as possible, the intonations of speech.
		Italian monody, accompanied by basso continuo, a chordal instrument and a bass instrument, was an important element in the newly developing form of opera.
		Caccinis opera Euridice, the result of a collaboration in which Jacopo Peri wrote the greater part of the music, a setting of libretto by Rinuccini, was staged in Florence in 1600.
	www.naxos.com /composerinfo/9720.htm (224 words)

	Glossary of Musical Term - B
		A barcarolle is a boating-song, generally used to describe the boating-songs of gondoliers in Venice, imitated by composers in songs and instrumental pieces in the 19th century.
		The word is also used to specify pitched and valved brass instruments of lowish register and as an adjective to distinguish the rare lowest member of the oboe family, also known as a bass oboe, sounding an octave (eight notes) lower than the normal oboe.
		In common speech the word bass may indicate the double bass, the largest and lowest instrument of the string family, or, in brass bands, an instrument corresponding to the orchestral tuba, the bass of the brass family.
	www.lcsproductions.net /MusHistRev/Glossary/B.html (1284 words)

	What is basso continuo? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Composers typically did not specify continuo instrumentation, but instruments commonly used included members of the lute family (the archlute and theorbo in particular), harp, guitar, instruments of the harpsichord and organ families, and even bowed-string instruments such as the lirone or viol.
		A common practice is to have several different instruments realize the continuo line (in the seventeenth century, theorbo and organ seems to have been a favorite combination; the published score of Monteverdi's Orfeo lists three theorbos, two harpsichords, two organs, regal and harp).
		In addition to the chordal instrument(s), melody instruments (cello, bassoon) can play the bass line, although this is not necessary and is less common in earlier music.
	www.medieval.org /emfaq/misc/continuo.html (560 words)

	Basic Chords on the Mountain Dulcimer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The mountain dulcimer, in its traditional form, is a dronal, not a chordal instrument.
		By this I mean that the "traditional" style of play for the mountain dulcimer consists of a single line of melody played against a "drone" consisting of (usually) the root and the fifth of the key in which the melody is played.
		Playing a chordal accompaniment is also an easy way to join in in a jam session when you don't happen to know the tune that they're playing at that moment.
	www.sksmithmusic.com /virtual_classroom/basic_chords.html (2256 words)

	Harp Spectrum
		While a few historical instruments are in museums, most are in active use, as the cross-strung harp is experiencing a remarkable revival, especially in North America.
		Most electronic tuners either generate an audible pitch for each semitone, allowing the player to adjust the instrument to match the tuner, or mechanically listens to the pitch generated by the instrument and provides a display indicating whether that pitch is sharp, flat, or exactly matching current standards.
		monochord: An instrument resembling a one-string violin with a movable bridge, used to demonstrate and study the division of a string length into intervals.
	www.harpspectrum.org /glossary/glossary.shtml (3812 words)

	Early (and other) Instruments (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		While there are pictures of triangular instruments which may or may not be bowed psalteries dating from the middle ages, the earliest I have heard the instrument definitely documented to have existed is the 1930's.
		The chitarino is a renaissance instrument intermediate between the lute and the "parlour guitar".
		The instrument is first mentioned in the last half of the 16th century, and its use extended slightly past the mid 17th century.
	www.radix.net /~dglenn/defs/inst.html (5560 words)

	Strings that are plucked. - infoweb (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Banjo - A stringed instrument similar to a guitar; often used as a chordal instrument in traditional jazz styles
		Dombra - A long-necked, two-stringed instrument, possessing a resonating chamber, somewhat similar to a banjo or a lute
		Harp - A chordophone that has a triangular frame consisting of a sounding board and a pillar and a curved neck; the strings stretched between the neck and the soundbox are plucked with the fingers
	www.infoweb.co.nz /research/music/instruments/strings/plucked (301 words)

	Cello in the 18th Century
		The examples of such unfigured basses are numerous, especially in Italian instrumental music from the last of the 17th century to the works of Boccherini for violoncello and basso.
		It may be hard for us to accept the cello as an accompanying instrument, because the 19th century imposed the use of the piano, and practically all the editions for the last 150 years have accompaniments arranged for this instrument.
		But the fact is the cello sounds great as an accompanying instrument, and when cellists begin to revive this practice, I am sure they will discover what a joy it is, especially since the imagination can be given free rein.
	www.standingstones.com /cell18th.html (1285 words)

	Banjo - infoweb
		The banjo consists of a drum, used as a soundboard and often with a ring made of metal, a neck mounted on the side of the drum, a tailpiece mounted on the opposite side, four or five strings, and a bridge.
		These instruments were spread, in "modern" times, to Europe through the Arab conquest of Spain, and the Ottoman conquest of the Balkans.
		While exploring the Gambra River in Africa in 1620 he recorded an instrument "...made of a great gourd and a neck, thereunto was fastened strings." The first mention of the name for these instruments in the Western Hemisphere is from Martinique in a document dated 1678.
	www.infoweb.co.nz /research/music/instruments/strings/plucked/banjo (2702 words)

	Concertina.net Discussion Forums > A Squeezbox For Many Styles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Dec 13 2003, 12:58 PM Many people will agree with this statement, I suspect: "Always buy the best instrument you can afford." If you decide you and the instrument are not made for each other, you can usually get close to what you paid for it, if you did not overpay to begin with.
		Buying a "vintage instrument" is not easy and full of pitfalls an inexperienced purchaser may fall for.
		Ah, the cheap instrument vs. the expensive one for beginners - I, too, would advise a new student to buy as fine an instrument as possible, but at the same time, it is a lot of bread to put down on something they may not like a bit.
	www.concertina.net /forums/lofiversion/index.php/t474.html (3439 words)

	Re: [Finale] How to separate melody from chordal accompaniment?
		I don't know how this affects the midi file that gets saved, but it is possible in the instrument list to turn off the chords so they don't play.
		It supplied the chordal accompaniment, but I don't want the chords to be on the MIDI file that I want to produce.
		So I was hoping there was a way to separate the chordal accompaniment from the melody onto two different tracks, and that way be able to discard the accompaniment.
	www.mail-archive.com /finale@mail.shsu.edu/msg04228.html (330 words)

	Stephen Owsley Smith - Woods Used
		I don’t intend to imply that the tone of an instrument is determined by the types of wood it’s made of: that’s certainly a factor, but in instruments, as in the multiverse, everything depends on everything.
		In the context of my instruments, the tonal differences between Koa and Cuban mahogany are fairly subtle: the Koa tends to a very fast response, greater transparency and complexity of tone, beautiful sustain (esp. in the overtones_), a bit more ‘spling’ on the attack, a bit growlier in the bottom.
		In either case, I build an instrument that I intend to be fully capable and deeply satisfying an any context, and particularly appropriate to the roles for which it is commissioned.
	www.celticmusic.com /steve/oldbrowser/woods.html (848 words)

	Background (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Although the body of literature specifically written for trombones and organ is by no means large, the association between these two instruments has enjoyed a long and well-respected relationship.
		With the advent of a more specific instrumental style in the time of the early Baroque, trombones--again owing to their chromatic and dynamic capabilities--joined woodwinds and strings as performers of the developing sonata.
		Baroque style, of course, requires a keyboard or other chordal instrument to fill out the harmony as part of the normal musical texture, and the organ was often used in that role as the natural partner of the trombones.
	www.hatq.org /new_page_2.htm (351 words)

	Encounter Baroque (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The continuo (or figured bass line) played by the low instruments, plus chordal instrument (harpsichord, organ, lute) is peculiar to this period.
		Constrast was also achieved by varying the instrumentation.
		Vocal and instrumental music was of equal importance.
	www.mso.com.au /edu/history/baroque.asp (159 words)

	New Gibraltar Encyclopedia of Progressive Rock U
		Chordal and melodic material is well known from Lach'n's releases, albeit here put in different context.
		Their instrumental music is based largely on acoustic guitars over which the violin and clarinet weave and intertwine gorgeous, folksy melodic lines; fluid and trebly electric guitars can mainly be heard as rhythm and solo instruments during the lengthy solos which intersperse these sections.
		Not only are the various instruments used for maximum sonic range (including some positively eldritch humming from the normally-benevolent accordion), but the band also orchestrate with a more symphonic, sectional style, sounding more than ever before like a small but powerful orchestra than just an augmented guitar band.
	www.gepr.net /u.html (7996 words)

	MUS 872 Crocker Ch. 8 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The bass part (the lowest sounding notes of the chord) was given to the player of a chordal instrument who played on each note a triad or sixth chord according to context.
		ricerare -"Originally the term ‘ricercare’ was used for a piece of preludial character for lute or keyboard instrument (as in the expression ‘ricercare le corde’, ‘to try out the strings’), giving it a meaning comparable to that of ‘tastar’, ‘tañer’, ‘tiento’ etc. (see Toccata and Tiento).
		The commonest type subsequently was the imitative ricercare, similar in scope to the fantasia and fugue.
	www.music.eku.edu /faculty/nelson/mus872old/crocker2.html (740 words)

	two4
		The sho is a wind instrument used in the gagaku ensemble which provided the traditional court music of Japan.
		The two instruments thus play contrasting roles throughout, in the fields of both pitch and time — the violin generally exploring the infra-chromatic cracks between the piano or sho’s tempered scale; long, single tones against changing harmonies.
		The composition's identity, like the symmetry of the time brackets, the infra-chromatics of the violin, the chance-discovered harmonies of the chordal instrument, and the resulting multi-valent contrasts, lies in potentiality, which emerges into reality only through the act of performance.
	www.stephendrury.com /Writings/texts/two4layers.htm (1751 words)

	Bass \| Coming from guitar or another instrument to elec. bass (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		So many think that bass is : just the same tuning as the bottom strings of the guitar (true, down one : octave).
		But it really is a much-different instrument than guitar - it : not only requires a lot harder technique, different fingerings, but also : an entirely different role and technique, just the opposite of when : you're playing guitar, laying down a foundation for the whole band to : play on.
		This is not the cornball simple : stuff put out by Mel Bay etc. -- I don't believe in teaching anything : but the best useable lines that people can instantly start using...as : the "Mary Had A Little Lamb" stuff teaches nothing but wanting to give : up.
	www.basslessons.com /webboard/messages_1a/1090.html (1059 words)

	Blues Foundation :: Lesson Plans
		Students will be able to spell and play the I, IV, and V triad in the key of C Major on a keyboard instrument.
		V? "Now lets play the Blues!" Students practice triads in blues pattern on keyboard instruments, autoharp, mallet instruments (need 3 mallets or play as arpeggio), guitar (if they have learned simple chords C F G).
		The rest of the class should count the steady beat with a clap pattern, or play classroom percussion, or sing the chord roots to follow the blues pattern.
	www.blues.org /bits/plans.php4?Id=1 (605 words)

	Technology Strategies – National Music Standard #2 (Lesson Plan)
		Electronic instruments are effective in small or large ensembles as well as in multi-station labs equipped with electronic instruments/keyboards.
		Electronic instruments are capable of playing a wide range of timbres.
		Students can use electronic instruments to perform simple and complex rhythm patterns using a variety of percussion sounds.
	www.teachervision.fen.com /page/6912.html?for_printing=1 (363 words)

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