Instruments – Instrumente Posted by jan on Jul 1, 2011 in Culture, Language, Music, Traditions
Hey there, as I promised, there will be a blog post about instruments. So let´s start the classic way and have a look at an Orchestra. In it´s main parts it consists of the following instruments:
der Dirigent – conductor
die Violine/die Geige – violin
die Bratsche – viola
das Violoncello – violoncello
der Kontrabass – contrabass
die Harfe – harp
das Klavier – piano
die Klarinette – clarinet
das Fagott – bassoon
die Flöte – flute/pipe/whistle
die Oboe – oboe
das Horn – bugle
die Trompete – trumpet
die Posaune – trombone
die Tuba – tuba
das Schlagwerk – drums
die Pauke – kettledrum
Ok, that was a lot. If we go forward in time, there would be a big band to think of. Let´s take a look at their instruments:
das Klavier – piano
das Schlagzeug – drums
der E-Bass – bass guitar
die Gitarre – guitar
die Perkussionsinstrumente – percussions
das Saxophon – saxophone
die Klarinette – clarinet
die Querflöte – German flute
die Trompete – trumpet
die Posaune – trombone
A Jazz or Blues ensemble often consists of:
das Schlagzeug – drums
die Gitarre – guitar
der Kontrabass – contrabass
das Klavier – piano
die Trompete – trumpet
der Gesang – vocals
Altough today´s music is often produced with digital signals, Synthesizers and the help of computers, the classic Besetzung (instrumentation) of a modern (rock or pop) band is like this:
das Schlagzeug – drums
der Bass – bass guitar
die elektrische Gitarre – Electric guitar
das Keyboard – Keyboards
der Gesang – Vocals
When I think of making music by myself, I mean by just one person, I think of the following instruments:
die Flöte – flute
das Klavier – piano
das Didgeridoo – Didgeridoo
die Maultrommel – jaw harp
das Akkordeon – accordion
die Mandoline – mandolin
die Ukulele – ukulele
I´m sure that you have some others in mind. What are they called?
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My name is Jan and I live in the south west of Germany. My profession is being a project manager at a company that creates digital media (first of all internet related things). This is my job since over a decade so I´m quite familiar with the web and its tools. Whereat today almost every school kid does. But that´s one of the main reasons why nowadays there are quasi no more limits in the internet and so it can be used for all imaginable types of things. For example learning languages! And that´s where we are at the moment. I first got in touch with Transparent Language when my family and I used to live in France a couple of years ago. I just had a break from work and by coincidence I produced some cultural videos in French. A few months later the whole blogging thing came up and I was lucky to be a part of it. So now my (second) job is to feed you with information, exercises, vocabulary, grammar and stories about Germany and German language. For being a passionate videographer I´m trying to do this more and more by videos. If you have any wishes or needs of topics that should be treated here, please don´t hesitate to contact me via a comment field. I´m open to your suggestions (as long as they are not too individual) and will try to satisfy your needs.
Comments:
Max Leighton:
I would say Horn is for some very strange reason French Horn in English. Really twisted story behind it.