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Centuries of advancements in musical instruments have bypassed the traditional shakuhachi flute, an ancient instrument formed from bamboo root and equipped with just five finger holes. Its tender, ethereal tone thus remains essentially unaltered since its distant origins in Japan, and in the hands of a master player such as Riley Lee, an Australian, it sings to our spirits with a graceful gentleness that seems just beyond the reach of modern instruments. Lee here performs a series of duets with a koto, a stringed instrument with a harp- or zither-like character (performed by a trio of players), evoking moods of serenity and calm, carrying away your concerns on the receding mists of a golden dawn. Sweet, not shrill, Lee's gentle playing (accented by the sounds of surf at the disc's opening and close) is easily accessible to Western ears and is well-suited for meditation and massage. The combined run time of the disc's four tracks exceeds 56 minutes. --Terry Wood

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Average customer rating: Instruments of the Orchestra - Great Reference Material! Beginner or Expert Very Informative and Enjoyable Frank's view Excellent Intro for Those Not Familiar with the Orchestra

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Electronics: Kanguru CD Duplicator 1 to 3 - CD duplicator - Hi-Speed USB ( U2-CDDUP-1352 ) Kanguru Solutions U2-CDDUP-1552 Kanguru CD Duplicator Tower Kanguru Solutions U2-CDDUP-1752 Kanguru CD Duplicator Tower Micro Drive Docking Station Kingwin KF-21 Hard Drive Mobile Rack ATA 66/100/133 & Fan Kingwin KF-21-IPF-B - Storage bay adapter - black Kingwin KF-22 Aluminum Hard Disk Drive Rack ATA 133 with 2 Fans eMachines T2596 Intel Celeron 2.5GHz / 256MB DDR / 60GB HDD / DVD-ROM/CD-RW Combo Drive / 10/100Mbps LAN Support / Windows XP Home / Refurbished Desktop PC Inland USB 2.0 External Card Reader/Writer - Card reader ( MS, MS PRO, Microdrive, MMC, SD, SM, MS Duo, CF ) - Hi-Speed USB Systemax™ AMD Athlon™ XP Processor 2600+ / Microsoft® Windows® XP Home Edition / 512MB/ 80GB / CDRW / DVD Electronics Electronics iolins, A Charming Little Elfin Dance Elfenreigen Tracks: Introduction To The Viola Viola Concerto (Mvt 1) Khatchaturian Gets A Very Different Sound From It: Fuller, Fruitier, More Exotic. Gayane Suite No.1 (Armen's Solo) Very Nearly The Whole Of The Violin's Upper Register Is Also Available To The Viola. Passacaglia, Op.33b From 'Peter Grimes' The Viola Can Bring A Special, Rich Twanginess To Pizzicato That The Violins Lack./Don Quixote/Berlioz Drew Sounds From It That Retain Their Metallic Strangeness Even Today. Harold In Italy (Mvt 4) The Muted Viola: Intimate, Gentle, Poignant In Dvork Cypresses (No.9) The Massed Violas Of The Modern Symphony Orchestra In Mahler Symphony No.4 (Mvt 3) The 'Period' Viola In Bach Brandenburg Concerto No.6 (Last Mvt) The Cello: A Voice Of Unique Nobility Suite No.1 For Unaccompanied Cello (Prelude) Brahms And The 'Soul' Of The Cello Piano Concerto No.2 In B Flat Major (Mvt 3) Most Orchestral Composers Tend To Emphasize The Cello's Lower Register. Cantata 'Herz Und Mund Und Tat Und Leben', BWV 147 (Soprana Aria: Bereite Dir, Jesu) In The Time Of Beethoven The Cello Remained As Fundamental As Ever. Symphony No.3 'Eroica' (Finale) But The Cello Is Not Condemned To Spend Its Life In The Basement. Elfentanz, Op.39 Not Only In Recital Showpieces Like That Is The Cello Is Used In Its Highest Register. The Protecting Veil (Opening) A Cello With An Identity-Crisis: The Pizzicato Flamencan Flamenco Double-Stopping In The Lower Reaches Of The Cello's Range Solo Suiet For Cello And Piano (Sardana) It's In The Middle Register That The Cello Really Comes Into Its Own. Oriental Dance, Op.2 No.2 It Was To The Cellos That Beethoven Gave Two Of His Most Famous Themes./Symphony No.5 (Mvt 2)/Still More Famous Than That Theme Is This One From The Ninth Symphony. Symphony No.9 (Finale) Introduction To The Double-Bass The Carnival Of The Animals (The Elephant) But The Double-Bass Can Be Intensely Expressive And Graceful. Elegy No.1 In D Major The Range Of The Double-Bass Is The Greatest Of All The String Instruments/Allegro Di Concerto, 'Alla Mendelssohn'/And It's Also Capable Of Very Considerable Virtuosity. Capriccio Di Bravura Double-Bass Solos In Orchestral Scores Are Rare But Often Memorable./Symphony No.1 'Titan' (Mvt 3)/In His Third Symphony Mahler Makes A Very Different Use Of The Instrument./Symphony No.3 (Mvt 1) The Double-Bass Muted In Prokofiev/Lieutenant Kije Suite (Kije's Wedding)/In Another Work Prokofiev Uses The Double-Bass To Enhance The Winds./Romeo And Juliet (Act III)/And He Combines The Bass Clarinet With A Shivering Tremolo From The Double-Basses.... Symphony No.5 (Mvt 3)/So Much For The Strings/On Now To The Winds Tracks: The Antiquity And Magic Of The Flute Prelude A L'Apres-Midi D'Un Faune The Versatility And Agility Of The Flute Orchestral Suite No.2 In B Minor (Badinerie) The Flute In Fifteenth-Century Spain Sa'Dawi Other Flutes: The Bass And Alto Chamber Music No.II The Piccolo - Aptly Named La Naissance D'Osiris (Mvt 6) From A Piccolo Of The Eighteenth Century To One Of Its Descendants In The Twentieth Suite No.1 For Small Orchestra (Valse) A Variety Of Techniques Chamber Music No.II Flutter-Tonguing. But Tchaikovsky Got There Eighty Years Before. The Nutcracker (Act II, No.2: Scene) From The Transverse To The Vertical: The Baroque Recorder Recorded Suite In A Minor (Menuet II) An Unfamiliar, Early Vision Of The Instrument Naelden, Naelden The Bachian Oboe Cantata 'Ein Feste Burg Ist Unser Gott', BWV 80 (No.7: Duetto) Introduction To The Cor Anglais Or 'English Born' Symphony No.9 'From The New World' (Mvt 2) The Loneliness Of The Cor Anglais The Swan Of Tuonela The Cor Anglais Joins The French Horn In Haydn. Symphony No.22 'The Philosopher' (Opening) Introduction To The Oboe D'Amore, Beloved Of Bach - But Also Of Ravel Bolero The Clarinet Family: Boxing The Compass, From The Depths Of The Bass Clarinet.../The Egyptian (Violence)/...To The Raucous And Squealy.../Taras Bulba (The Death Of Ostap)/...To The Shrill And Complaining... Petrushka (No.8: Peasant With Bear)/...To The High Sprits Of A Playful Puppy./Symphonie Fantastique (Last Mvt)/And To The Downright Jazzy/Romeo And Juliet (Act II) As The High Clarinets Tend To Be Loud, So The Bass Tends To Be Soft: Gayane Suite No. 1 (Mvt 5) The Bass Clarinet Is Used By Most Composers Mainly As A Colouring Agent.../Petrushka (No.4: The Blackamoor)/...But It Does Occasionally Get A Whole Tune To Itself./Iberia (Almeria). The Range Of The Normal Clarinet Parts Goes Quite High... The Snow Maiden (Scene 5: Melodrama) ...And Quite Low. Peter And The Wolf (The Cat) The Clarinet As Concerto Soloist Clarinet Concerto In A Major (Rondo) But That's Not The Instrument Mozart Wrote It For; This Is: Clarinet Concerto In A Major (Rondo) Introduction To The Saxophone Hary Janos Suite (Mvt 4) The Soprano Saxophone Has Quite A Different Feel To It. L'Arlesienne Suite No.1 (Minuet) The Little Sopranino Sax Goes Even Higher. Bolero The Most Famous Use Of The Saxophone Is In An Orchestration By Ravel. Pictures At An Exhibition (The Old Castle) The Saxophone Can Be Quite Contagiously Good-Humoured. Sax-O-Phun The Puffa-Puffa Image Of The Bassoon Peter And The Wolf (Grandfather) The Bachian Bassoon, In Accompanimental Mode Cantata 'Weichet Nur, Betrubte Schatten' ('Wedding Cantata'), BWV 202 (Aria No.1) Bizet Leaves The Puffa-Puffa Image Out, Allowing The Bassoon To Sing./Carmen Suite No.1 (Les Dragons D'Alcala) And Ravel, Also In Spanish Mode, Does Likewise. Bolero The Bassoon As A Voice Of High Seriousness, Indeed Desolate Loneliness Symphony No.3 (Opening) The Eerie Bassoon In Its Highest Register The Rite Of Spring (Opening) Stravinsky Now Draws On Its Lowest Register, Lonely And Melancholy. The Firebird Suite (1919, Berceuse) The Bassoon As Concerto Soloist, Avoiding All Exaggeration Bassoon Concerto In G Minor (Finale) The Deep-Voiced Contra-Bassoon, As A Fairy-Tale Beast Ma Mere L'Oye - Mother Goose (Beauty And The Beast) The French Horn Under Its Woodwind Hat Wind Quintet, Op.43 (Last Mvt) Now A More Prominent Role, In A Woodwind Quintet From An Earlier Era Wind Quintet In A Minor, Op.100 No.5 (Mvt 2) The Horn In Harmonious Blend With Strings In Another Quintet Horn Quintet, K.407 (Finale) Tracks: The Trumpet As Virtuoso Soloist Brandenburg Concerto No.2 (Last Mvt) The Special Brillance Of Paired Trumpets Concerto In C For Two Trumpets, RV537 (Mvt 1) The Ceremonial Trumpet Fanfare For The Common Man Trumpets And Drums - An Incomparable Alliance Messiah (The Trumpet Shall Sound) The Versatility Of The Trumpet, From The Most Public To The Most Lonely Piano Concerto In F (Slow Mvt) The Trumpet As The Voice Of The City/An American In Paris/The Trumpet As Recruitment Officer/The Soldier's Tale (The March)/The Trumpet As Swaggerer Carmen Suite No.2 (Habanera) The Trumpet As The Voice Of Strength And Courage Carmet Suite No.2 (Toreador's Song) The Trumpet Muted/Petrushka (No.4: The Blackamoor)/Lieutenant Kije Suite (Opening)/The Trumpet As The Voice Of Weariness Billy The Kid The Trumpet As Character Actor Pictures At An Exhibition (No.6) The Trumpet As The Voice Of God Mass In B Minor ('Et Exspecto') The Birth Of The Trombone Aenmerckt Nu Hier The Birth Of The Brass As A Family Canzon 12 In Double Echo The Trombone In The Eighteenth Century Trombone Concerto In B Flat Major (Finale) The Tone Of The Tenor Trombone/Romance For Trombone And Organ/The Memorable Voice Of The Bass Trombone/Requiem (Mvt 2)/But The Bass Trombone Is More Than An Instrumental Bullfrog. Hosannah The Trombones Become Part Of The Orchestra. Symphony No.5 (Finale) The Wagnerian Trombone:/Overture To 'Tannhauser' The Trombone As Caricaturist Pulcinella (No.19: Vivo) The Trombone As Raspberry/Concerto For Orchestra (Intermezzo) The Horn And The Hunt Horn Concerto No.4 In E Flat, K.495 (Finale) The Challenging Horn Of The Baroque Abaris Ou Les Boreades (Menuet) The Scarcity Of First-Rate Players In Handel's Time Walter Music (Minuet 1) The Horn As Magician/The Firebird Suite (1919, Finale) Horns And The Sound Of Nobility Overture To 'Tannhauser' (Opening) The Special Sound Of The Horn In Its Higher Register Mass In B Minor ('Quoniam Tu Solus Sanctus') The Trumpet-Like Sound Of Massed Horns Symphony No.3 (Mvt 1, Opening) The Tuba - Unfairly Maligned? Symphony No.6 (Mvt 3) The Tuba Perfectly Cast By Ravel Pictures At An Exhibition (Bydlo) Tracks: Introduction. And We Begin With A Bang. Fanfare For The Common Man/The Bass Drum On The Battlefields/Wellington's Victory, Op.91 (Opening) At The Opposite Extreme Is The Triangle. Piano Concerto No.1 In E Flat (Scherzo) Categories Of Percussion: Tuned And Untuned. The Side Drum Overture To 'La Gazza Ladra' - The Thieving Magpie (Opening) The Side Drum In An Effective But Unexpected Role/Clarinet Concerto (Mvt 1) The Tambourine. One Of The Oldest Instruments In The World Den Hoboecken Dans Even Older Is The Originally Oriental Gong. Ma Mere L'Oye - Mother Goose (Laideronette) No Single Instrument Can Match The Gong In Evoking The Breaking Of Waves./Passacaglia, Op.33b From 'Peter Grimes'/But Gongs Don't Have To Be Struck To Be Effective. Gymnopedie No.2 The Cymbals Are Generally Discovered Early In Life./The Sanguine Fan/And They Do More Than Clash Together Loudly. They Can Be Clashed Together Softly./Studio Example: But They Needn't Be Clashed Together At All/Studio Example: They Can Be Lightly... 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The Clarinet As Cuckoo The Carnival Of The Animals (The Cuckoo) The Flute As An All-purpose Aviary The Carnival Of The Animals (The Aviary) The Oboe As Duck Peter And The Wolf (The Duck) The Recording Of Reality. Does It Work As Well? The Pines Of Rome (The Pines Of The Janiculum) The Recording Of Reality Electronically Reborn In New Guises Cantus Articus - Concerto For Birds And Orchesra (Mvt 2) Beethoven Turns Avian: Cuckoo, Nightingale, And Quail Symphony No.6 'Pastoral' (Andante Molto Mosso) Some Improbable Casting: The Violin As Braying Donkey The Carnival Of The Animals (Persons With Long Ears) A Truly Orchestral Hee-haw To Be Reckoned With Overture To 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' A Thunderstorm In A Million Symphony No.6 'Pastoral (Allegro-Allegretto) the Instrumental Depiction Of A Silent World The Carnival Of The Animals (The Aquarium) Saint-Saens' Menagerie Takes A Curtain Call. The Carnival Of The Animals (Finale) Tracks: The Grouping Of Instrumental Families. 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First, Two Violins Forty-Four Duos (No.4) A Great Contrast, Of Both Pitch And Character: Violin And Viola Duo For Violin And Viola In B Flat Major, K.424 (Finale, Vars 1 & 2)/Studio Example Arrival Of The Standard String Trio: Violin, Viola, And Cello String Trio In B Flat (Menuetto) The String Quartet: Two Violins, Viola, And Cello String Quartet In F, Op.18 No.1 (Mvt 3) The String Quintet - When The Extra Instrument Is A Second Viola String Quartet No.5 In D, K.593 (Adagio) The String Quintet - When The Extra Instrument Is A Second Cello String Quintet In C (Mvt 3) The String Sextet: Two Violins, Two Violas, And Two Cellos String Sextet In B Flat (Mvt 2) The String Octet: The Standard String Quaret Times Two Octet In E Flat, Op.20 (Mvt 1) Double The String Octet: A Fully Fledged String Orchestra String Symphony No.2 (Finale) The Massed Strings Of A Symphony Orchestra Fantasia On A Theme Of Thomas Tallis Contrasts Of Pitch And Instrumental 'Colour' In The Woodwind Section Wind Quintet In A Minor, Op.100 No.5 (Theme) In The First Variation It's The Horn That Gets The Lion's Share. Wind Quintet In A Minor, Variation 1 In Variation Two The Torch Is Handed To The Bassoon. Wind Quintet In A Minor, Variation 2 In Variation Three The Oboe Leads. Wind Quintet In A Minor, Variation 3 Variation Four: Conversation Before Returning To A Solo-dominated Texture Wind Quintet In A Minor, Variation 4 And Variation Five is Dominated By The Clarinet. Wind Quintet In A Minor, Variation 5 The Next To Be Featured Is The Virtuoso Flute. Wind Quintet In A Minor, Variation 6 Individual Farewells And A Closing Chorus Wind Quintet In A Minor, Variation 7 A Mixed Group: Clarinet, Bassoon, Horn, String Quartet, And Double-Bass Octet In F (Mvt 3) The Early Classical Symphony Orchestra Of Haydn And Mozart Symphony No.29 In A, K.201 (Finale) Strings, Wind, But No Brass. What Haydn And Mozart Never Knew Canzon 28 Beethoven's Fifth: Two Horns, Two Trumpets, And Three Trombones Join The Team. Symphony No.5 (Finale) From Beethoven To The Massive Orchestras Of Berlioz, Wagner, And Mahler Beethoven Changed The Face Of The Symphony And The Orchestra Forever Symphoy No.6 'Tragic' (Mvt 1) The Cult Of Orchestral Elephantiasis Reaches Its Peak. Symphony No.1 'Gothic' (VI: Te Ergo Quaesumus) When Large Doesn't Necessarily Mean Loud: Debussy Images (Gigues) A Crisis Of Confidence; The Orchestra's Survival Hangs In The Balance, But It Still Develops. The Ondes Martenot: Turangalila Symphony (Chant D'amour 1) The Advent Of The 'Early Music' Movement Brings A New Vitality And Freshness. Balle De Xerxes (Gavotte En Rondeau) Computer And Synthesiser: Friends Or Foes? Concerto In D Minor For Two Violins (Largo) A Speculative Look Ahead/Mass In B Minor ('Dona Nobis Pacem') Customer Reviews: Instruments of the Orchestra - Great Reference Material!.......2007-04-04 This set lends itself to greatly enhancing one's knowledge of the orchestra, instruments in it, and their usage. I am a huge music buff, and I still picked up a great deal I previously did not know. I highly recommend this for all who wish to understand the origin of music, as well as the processes that are employed to create music! Beginner or Expert.......2007-03-12 This CD is excellent for the beginner or expert! To be able to haear the instrumets separately and then together really provides a good education. and/or refresher. The book thaty comes with the CD is alomost worth the price by itself! Very Informative and Enjoyable.......2006-11-20 Whether you're a music novice or pro, "The instruments of the Orchestra" is a very worthwhile purchase. The 7 CDs, with a total of 8 hours, are expertly narrated by Jeremy Siepmann. He's a great speaker, very much like the late Leonard Bernstein was. Mr. Siepmann takes you on an unforgetable musical journey covering the origins and use of the various orchestral instruments throughout musical history. The balance between his narration and a wealth of musical examples, which range from snippets to entire movements, is superb. The comprehensive enclosed booklet is excellent and faithfully follows the 7 CDs in content. Even with my 40+ years of music training I still learned new things from this wonderful collection. Considering the excellence of the content, and a cost that translates to about $5 per disc, this collection is a great value. Grab it, you won't regret that you did. Five solid stars! Frank's view.......2006-08-19 This boxed set of CD's with booklet achieved all I had hoped that it would. There are good samples of individual instruments and well done commentary on each. The only drawback was that some of the samples were too brief and could have been longer, hoiwever I guess this fits in with time constraints of the medium. It has given me a lot of clues as to future purchases of CD's for listening to individual instruments. Altogeth a satisfactory purchase and a welcome addition to my collection. Excellent Intro for Those Not Familiar with the Orchestra.......2003-11-08 I've listened to classical music for years and am interested in composition. I bought this CD set to learn how an orchestra and its instruments work. I thought the CDs would be a nice but boring lecture. They aren't! Not only are they FUN but they are informative as well. I learned a huge amount from each CD and couldn't wait to listen to the next one. The narrator and writer is a great speaker and holds your attention well. He is definitely knowledgeable. He provides musical examples for each point he makes, so you get to "hear" what he just talked about. I'd say the CDs are about 65% music and 35% narration. You'll learn about the range of instruments, some history, different ways to play them, how they sound, and how they are used in the orchestra. This CD set was a great learning experience and is sold at such a low price! I recommend this CD for those who want to learn about classical music and those who know about it but are interested in learning more about the inner workings of an orchestra. You'll learn much useful information. For instance, the Rite of Spring (with that eerie start) is written for bassoon! I never knew a bassoon could sound like that but now I do. The one complaint I have is the last CD. This deals with the orchestra. I wanted more of a tour of how the orchestra has been used through history up to the present. Instead, it was a tour of how different groups of instruments sound. I thought it could have been better. The other 6 CDs are excellent. Average customer rating: CD Oriental Sunrise Tranquility Beautiful Music! 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