CORSO LINGUA INGLESE

CONSERVATORIO SANTA CECILIA- ROMA

A.A. 2021/22
DOCENTE: MIRELLA DI VITA
 FAMILIES OF
INSTRUMENTS
 FAMILIES OF THE ORCHESTRA

The orchestra is made up of 4 families of instruments.

Each family is grouped by the way the instrument produces vibrations.
FAMILIES OF
THE
ORCHESTRA
 STRING FAMILY

Instruments in this family

produce sound by vibrating
strings.
The strings are vibrated in two
ways: using a bow to rub the
strings or plucking the strings,
usually with the hand.
The pitch is changed on string
instruments by adjusting the
length of the string.
 STRING FAMILY

GUITAR HARP
WOODWIND FAMILY

The Woodwind Family includes the flute,

clarinet, oboe, bassoon and saxophone.
The family produces sound by blowing a
column of air inside some form of tube.
Edge-blown instruments = flute, recorder
Singlereed instruments = clarinet,
saxophone
Double reed instruments = oboe, bassoon
 BRASS FAMILY

The Brass Family is one of the oldest

families of the orchestra and includes the
trumpet, French horn, tuba and
trombone.
Sound is produced when a brass player
buzzes his or her lips into a cup-shaped
mouthpiece to produce vibrating air.
PERCUSSION
ISTRUMENTS
 ➢ Sound on percussion instruments is
created by hitting, rubbing or
shaking either a solid material, like
a metal triangle, or a membrane,
PERCUSSION like the top of a snare drum.

ISTRUMENTS ➢ Pitched percussion instruments =

chimes, xylophone, kettledrums.
➢ Unpitched percussion
instruments = snare drum, bass
drum, triangle, cymbals etc…
KEYBOARD INSTRUMENTS

Term for instruments such as

the organ, piano, clavichord, harpsichord, etc.
which are sounded through the use of a
set of keys, push buttons, or parallel levers.
Depressing a key on the keyboard makes the
instrument produce sounds—either by
mechanically striking a string (acoustic piano),
plucking a string (harpsichord), causing air to
flow through a pipe organ, striking a bell
(carillon), or, on electric and electronic
keyboards, completing a circuit (Hammond
organ, digital piano, synthesizer).