Sentence examples for four trombones from inspiring English sources

Four trombones and four trumpets.

The piece begins with dirgelike canons on the four trombones, answered by subdued, quizzical stirrings in the strings.

Four trombones are as good a way as any to get the attention of a distracted citizenship.

In one hair-raising passage, four trombones slide up and down intervals of a minor third, beginning on E-flat minor, the unofficial key of death.

The dance band, popular in the 1930s and 1940s, consisted of five saxophones, four trumpets, four trombones, double bass, piano, guitar, and drums.

The audience was 60-strong, and the solos were sublime, enhanced by five woodwinds, four trombones, four trumpets, drums, piano, guitar and bass.

In this piece four trombone players, four dancers and one singer share the stage with sculptural units -- cubes that she calls "magic boxes" -- on which are projected black-and-white silent film images.

2. Brass: four trumpets, four or five horns, three trombones, tuba.

As Fricka exits, three trombones intone the terrible motif of the Curse.

It was hard to miss the sound of eight men playing brass instruments — two trombones, four trumpets, one sousaphone, and a euphonium — while a ninth man added drums.

The unconventional scoring calls for just two trumpets, three trombones, tenor tuba, flute (doubling on piccolo) and the soloist.