|
wachsend |
growing |
|
wagner tuba |
a five valves tuba designed by Richard Wagner, for use in his
music |
| waist |
narrowing in the middle of the body of an instrument, resulting in a shape like an hourglass.
Typically found in string instruments, and some drums. |
| wait |
watchman who sounded the hours of the night |
|
waldhorn |
French horn |
| waltz |
dance for couples written in 3/4 time. It made it's first appearance in the 18th-century, from
German or bohemian origins. The waltz reached England in the last years of the
18th-century |
|
walze |
crescendo pedal of organ. stereotyped undulating
figures |
|
warme |
warmth |
|
wasserorgel |
hydraulos |
|
water organ |
this direct ancestor of the modern pipe organ was invented in ancient
Greece, it used water to maintain a constant pressure on air that was fed to
panpipes |
|
wechsel- |
change |
|
wehmutig |
sad |
|
weich |
gentle |
|
weihmachtsmusik |
music for Christmas |
|
western mouth organ |
a wind-blown instrument consisting of a casing containing a series of metal reeds.
It is played principally in popular and folk music, including the
blues |
| whistle |
end-blown pipe |
| whistle-flute |
fipple flute |
|
whole note |
semibreve |
|
whole step |
interval of the major second |
|
whole tone scale |
scale consisting of six intervals of one whole step
each |
|
wind band |
an orchestra without strings, but including
saxophones and double basses |
|
wind cap |
cylindrical cap with blowhole that set the reeds in motion.
Used principally on crumhorns |
|
wind chest |
airtight box of the organ that sends air to the pipes |
|
wind instruments |
instruments in which sound is produced by the player blowing into them, causing a vibration of specific frequency. they are divided into woodwind and brass
instruments |
|
wind machine |
any instrument that simulates the sound of wind |
|
wirbel |
violin peg. drum roll |
|
wire brush |
a type of drumstick with a fan of stiff wires at the end, which is used to produce a 'brushing' noise on a
drum |
|
wolf |
discord resulting from imperfect tuning. the difference between
enharmonic in the mean-tone system. in string playing, a wolf tone is a faulty tone or unwanted volume reinforcement produced by a flaw in the
instrument |
| woodwind |
the woodwind section of the modern orchestra includes flutes, oboes, clarinets and bassoons and related instruments, although flutes are generally no longer made of wood.
These instruments are all aero phones, blowing instruments, the sound produced by blowing across an aperture in the case of the flute, by the vibration of a single reed in the case of the clarinet and by the vibration of double reeds in the case of the oboe and the bassoon. |
|
word painting |
expression via music of ideas of a song |
|
wuchtig |
heavy, ponderous |
|
wurstfagott |
racket bassoon |
|
wurdig |
dignified |
