Contrabassoon

Word CONTRABASSOON
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Definitions and meanings of "Contrabassoon"

What do we mean by contrabassoon?

The largest and lowest pitched of the double-reed wind instruments, sounding an octave below the bassoon. noun

A larger version of the bassoon sounding one octave lower, having a technique similar to the bassoon but offers more resistance in every way. noun

The bassoon that is the largest instrument in the oboe family noun

A larger version of the bassoon sounding one octave lower, having a technique similar to the bassoon but offers more resistance in every way.

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The word "contrabassoon" in example sentences

“The contrabassoon is more resistant and you have to do more to make it work,” Lipnick says. ❋ Mike McPhate (2010)

You can also hear that the contrabassoon is more difficult to play, even in the hands of a top player like Lipnick. ❋ Mike McPhate (2010)

“The spark of divinity can be present in a liverwurst just as well as in a contrabassoon,” he wrote in his preface to the work. ❋ Mike McPhate (2010)

At first hearing, the similarities between the contraforte and the contrabassoon are evident: both instruments hang out in the dark, lowest register of the double-reed universe. ❋ Mike McPhate (2010)

Erwin Schulhoff (1894-1942) wrote “Bass Nightingale” for the contrabassoon as a deliberate provocation to so-called aesthetes. ❋ Mike McPhate (2010)

Lewis Lipnick, the contrabassoonist of the NSO, plays Schulhoff's piece on the contrabassoon, the instrument he has been playing for more than 40 years: ❋ Mike McPhate (2010)

Dee: I don't mean to question your analysis, Commander, but it has normal brown eyes and was not an instant virtuoso on the contrabassoon. ❋ Mrissa (2009)

(Soundbite of music) LUNDEN: Mehldau has stretched his sonic palette on "Highway Rider" to include a chamber orchestra with strings, horns and contrabassoon. ❋ Unknown (2010)

That usually refers to works that go to the extremes of the orchestra, beyond the meat-and-potatoes of strings and winds and brass: a stroke of harp, a shimmer of cymbal, the mellow birdcall of an oboe d'amore or the flatulence of a contrabassoon. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Which is probably why there are a lot of people who can play piano and not that many the contrabassoon and double bass. ❋ Elizabeth McClung (2009)

Ryan Inzana Ravel, a quintessentially elegant composer, begins his "Concerto Pour la Main Gauche" with a surprisingly ungainly instrument, the contrabassoon, which produces a raspy, ominous sound. ❋ Unknown (2009)

(The less common contrabassoon is larger and has a lower pitch.) ❋ Unknown (2002)

To Jon-Tom he resembled a cross between Colonel Sanders and a contrabassoon. ❋ Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- (1984)

The temporal field sprang into existence once more and guardians hastened to remove three large containers labeled MEDICATIONS, a case of Canadian Club, a papillon dog yapping hysterically inside its mesh carrier, a twenty-liter carboy of "Joy," a set of Larousse's Grand Dictionnaire Universel du XIXeme Siecle Francais, and a contrabassoon. ❋ May, Julian, 1931- (1981)

Aho, 61, has written concertos for virtuosic performers on more than a dozen instruments, even the contrabassoon; a clarinet concerto was inevitable. ❋ Unknown (2011)

They were Pletnev's own compositions, the "Burlesque" and Finale from his Jazz Suite, whacky and witty escapades that gradually get a little out of control, as in an extended virtuosic solo for the contrabassoon. ❋ By TIMOTHY MANGAN (2010)

Highway Rider to include a chamber orchestra with strings, horns and contrabassoon. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The orchestral support under Spano's baton, moreover, was impeccable: It takes rare delicacy to play the important contrabassoon solo with, well, delicacy, but that was what Mike Gamburg achieved, and the massed tuttis were awesome in power and tonal richness. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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