Traditional music ensembles, distinguished in part by their instrumentation, included various combinations of wooden flutes and reed instruments, bowed and plucked lutes, struck zithers, xylophones and metallophones, kong vong gong circles, and drums of different sizes.
Some jazz groups can't escape their instrumentation.
At the start of 2014, when their fanbase numbered 200 people in Stockport, counting their mums, and their instrumentation included a decrepit Hammond organ purchased for £5, Blossoms decided to announce their presence to the wider world.
Their instrumentation is that of a bluegrass band mandolin, guitar, bass, fiddle, and banjo, the form having been established by Bill Monroe, the father of bluegrass but they are more modern chamber ensemble than bluegrass band.
Their instrumentation is that of a bluegrass band — mandolin, guitar, bass, fiddle, and banjo, the form having been established by Bill Monroe, the father of bluegrass — but they are more modern chamber ensemble than bluegrass band.
Unlike Trinidadian calypso groups, the Talbot Brothers did not use percussion, except for an occasional conga drum, and their instrumentation was unusual: a blend of acoustic and electric guitars, harmonicas, a 10-string ukulele called a tiple, an accordion and Roy's booming bass.
Their period instrumentation – two violins, a cello, an archlute, plus an organ or harpsichord – was perfectly suited to the Kings Place acoustic, and the works were wittily introduced.
Even more intensely passionate are the late Orchestral Symphonies for Twelve Obbligato Parts (1780), with their clever instrumentation and affective harmonies punctuated by unison passages.
Despite their "conventional" instrumentation, the Smiths are rooted (pun not intended) more firmly in the present than any of the so called "fingers on the pulse" industrial groups – Test Dept, SPK – can ever be.
It's a celebration of Puerto Rican music and dance, centered on the island's two great traditional dance-music styles, with their own instrumentation and rhythms: bomba (much older, with its roots in Africa, and distinguished by barrel drums) and plena (about a century old, and featuring the shallow, jingleless tambourines called panderos).
The framework provides the means to enhance legacy and modernized buildings regarding energy efficiency by integrating their available instrumentation into a data-driven predictive cyber-physical system.
