Since it requires only five players, it would seem to fall into the category of chamber music -- yet it calls for a double bass, an instrument generally regarded as symphonic.

In these readings, the double bass is either kept discreetly in the background, or it is dressed in clown's attire -- the musical equivalent of a bull in a china shop.

( Special compliments to the double bass playing of Johann Krumpp: his scrawny, tottering sound adds a delightful hilarity to the performance.

* 1763 – Domenico Dragonetti, Italian double bass virtuoso and composer ( d. 1846 )

The four-string bass — by far the most common — is usually tuned the same as the double bass, which corresponds to pitches one octave lower than the four lower strings of a guitar ( E, A, D, and G ).

The bass guitar is a transposing instrument, as it is notated in bass clef an octave higher than it sounds ( as is the double bass ) to avoid excessive ledger lines.

Since the 1960s, the bass guitar has largely replaced the double bass in popular music as the bass instrument in the rhythm section.

Bronze is also used for the windings of steel and nylon strings of various stringed instruments such as the double bass, piano, harpsichord, and the guitar ..

The bassoon is a woodwind instrument in the double reed family that typically plays music written in the bass and tenor registers, and occasionally higher.

It is a member of the violin family of musical instruments, which also includes the violin, viola, and double bass.

It is the second largest bowed string instrument in the modern symphony orchestra, the double bass being the largest.

The show's theme music, a cornet piece, accompanied by a brass band plus clarinet and double bass, reminiscent of northern band music, was written by Eric Spear.

Scherer also had a big night at bat with four hits in five trips including a double, Len Boehmer also was 4-for-5 with two doubles and Dave Ritchie had a home run and a triple.

Every natural-born citizen of a foreign state who is also an American citizen and every natural-born American citizen who is a citizen of a foreign land owes a double allegiance, one to the United States, and one to his homeland ( in the event of an immigrant becoming a citizen of the US ), or to his adopted land ( in the event of an emigrant natural born citizen of the US becoming a citizen of another nation ).

Additional catalogues were compiled for the 23, 882 double / multiple stars and 11, 597 variable stars also analyzed during the Hipparcos mission.

The " double width " mode of the TRS-80 was also supported, so 256 x 192 pixels ( in 32x16 character mode ), or 320 x 300 pixels ( in 40x24 character mode ) were also possible.

This double bond is stronger than a single covalent bond ( 611 kJ / mol for C = C vs. 347 kJ / mol for C — C ) and also shorter with an average bond length of 1. 33 Angstroms ( 133 pm ).

Exterior " latex " house paints may also be a " co-polymer " blend, but the very best exterior water-based paints are 100 % acrylic, due to elasticity and others, but 100 percent acrylic resins cost double as much as vinyl and PVA ( polyvinyl acetate ) is even cheaper, so paint companies make many combinations of them to match the market.

This scene has been restored on the " directors cut bootleg edition " DVD and the double disk DVD, which also featured the cinematic version of the film.

This also includes any run ( or any subsequent run ) that scores on plays that result in outs with one out or a double play with none out if an error has extended the inning.

Players may also use double motion, where they make an initial racquet movement in one direction before withdrawing the racquet to hit in another direction.

" Burt Ward, who portrayed Robin in the 1960s television show, has also remarked upon this interpretation in his autobiography Boy Wonder: My Life in Tights ; he writes that the relationship could be interpreted as a sexual one, with the show's double entendres and lavish camp also possibly offering ambiguous interpretation.

* He also scored a century and a double century in the third Test in that same Sri Lanka tour, a feat repeated only five other times in Test cricket history.

4-Both cells synthesize a complementary strand to produce a double stranded circular plasmid and also reproduce pili ; both cells are now viable donors.

Factory-made six-string prima balalaikas with three sets of double courses are also common and popular, particularly in Ukraine.

β Capricorni is a double star also known as Dabih.

The double salt with antimony ( such as ), bismuth, cadmium, copper, iron, and lead are also poorly soluble.

In organic chemistry a carbonate can also refer to a functional group within a larger molecule that contains a carbon atom bound to three oxygen atoms, one of which is double bonded.

The UCI rules also effectively ban some bicycle frame innovations ( such as the recumbent bicycle ) by requiring a double triangle structure.

It is very close to magnitude 6. 1 12 Cam, also 650 light-years from Earth, but the two stars are not a true double star because of their separation.

Centaurus also has many dimmer double stars and binary stars.

The rapid adoption of the compound crank can be traced in the works of the Anonymous of the Hussite Wars, an unknown German engineer writing on the state of the military technology of his day: first, the connecting-rod, applied to cranks, reappeared, second, double compound cranks also began to be equipped with connecting-rods and third, the flywheel was employed for these cranks to get them over the ' dead-spot '.

The test is unstable ( i. e. the crack propagates along the entire specimen once a critical load is attained ) and a modified version of this test characterised by a non constant inertia was proposed called the tapered double cantilever beam ( TDCB ) specimen.

* Compounds with three or more adjacent carbon-carbon double bonds are called cumulenes.

Eastern tribes have a completely different beadwork aesthetic, and Innu, Mi ' kmaq, Penobscot, and Haudenosaunee tribes are known for symmetrical scroll motifs in white beads, called the " double curve.

A hit for one base is called a single, for two bases a double, and for three bases a triple.

The alphabet of Marin Drinov was used until the orthographic reform of 1945 when the letters yat, called " double e "), and yus, called " big yus " or " ъ кръстато ") were removed from the alphabet, reducing the number of letters to 30.

Rolls of 4, 6, 8, and 10 are called " hard " or " easy " ( e. g. " six the hard way ", " easy eight ", " hard ten ") depending on whether they were rolled as a " double " or as any other combination of values, because of their significance in center table bets known as the " hard ways ".

Gamma Crucis, called Gacrux, is a double star.

Also called Hadar and Agena, Beta Centauri is a double star ; the primary is a blue-hued giant star of magnitude 0. 6, 525 light-years from Earth.

There is also a double hooked apparatus called a Cro-hook that has become popular.

Here, purines form hydrogen bonds to pyrimidines, with A bonding only to T, and C bonding only to G. This arrangement of two nucleotides binding together across the double helix is called a base pair.

Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky note in their book that Orwellian Doublespeak is an important component of the manipulation of the English language in American media, through a process called ‘ dichotomization ’; a component of media propaganda involving ‘ deeply embedded double standards in the reporting of news ’.

A person who plays this instrument is called a bassist, double bassist, double bass player, contrabassist, contrabass player, or bass player.

The names contrabass and double bass refer to the instrument's range and use in the contra octave below the cello, also called the 16 ' octave relative to the church organ.

Other colourful nicknames are found in other languages ; in Hungarian, for instance, the double bass is sometimes called nagy bőgő, which roughly translates as " big crier ," referring to its large voice.

At the base of the double bass is a metal rod with a spiked end called the endpin, which rests on the floor.

Many double bass symphony parts and virtuoso concertos employ harmonics ( also called flageolet tones ).

Giacinto Scelsi wrote two double bass pieces called Nuits in 1972, and then in 1976, he wrote Maknongan, a piece for any low-voiced instrument, such as double bass, contrabassoon, or tuba.

In 1989, French composer Pascal Dusapin ( born 1955 ) wrote a solo piece called In et Out for double bass.

# Cumulated dienes have the double bonds sharing a common atom as in a group of compounds called allenes.

Compounds that contain more than two double bonds are called polyenes.

In early dances, where the hey is called a " double hey ", it works to interpret this as an oval hey, like the modern circular hey but adapted to the straight sides of a longways formation.