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.

The double bass, also called the string bass, upright bass, bass fiddle, bass violin, doghouse bass, contrabass, bass viol, stand-up bass or bull fiddle, is the largest and lowest-pitched bowed string instrument in the modern symphony orchestra, with strings usually tuned to E1, A1, D2 and G2 ( see standard tuning ).

But there is hope, for Conservation Commissioner Bontempo has tagged the sanctuary as the kind of place the state hopes to include in its program to double its park space.

The Lenin tomb is obviously adequate for double occupancy, Moscow is a crowded city, and the creed of Communism deplores waste.

This is done at varying speeds, ranging from the slow and fast Shifte Telli ( a musical term meaning double strings ) to the fastest, ecstatic Karshilama ( meaning greetings or welcome ).

The Deerstalker points with the ease, speed and precision of a fine imported double shotgun, and its trigger pull is light and sharp.

The body is a heat machine, and 20 to 25 guests can easily double your cooling load.

It is planned to double the number of teams and to make use of improved equipment in a second demographic inquiry in 1960, so that the inquiry can be carried through in one year and the results published more expeditiously.

Including the brightness gain Af due to the Af area demagnification, the overall gain of a fiber coupled double stage image intensifier is: Af.

She is a regular stub and twister, double geered.

This conclusion is dependent on the assumption that traditional sex mores will continue to sanction both premarital chastity as the `` ideal '', and the double standard holding females primarily responsible for preserving the ideal.

Here is the world of the chauffeured limousine and the gossip reporter, of caviar on stale crackers and the warm martini, of the poseur, the spy, the party crasher, and the patriot, of the rented tails, the double cross, and the tired Lothario.

He is talking about double effects, of which the specific action causes directly the one and indirectly the other, but causes both ; ;

With this derivation, the name would have a double meaning in the poem: When the hero is functioning rightly, his men bring grief to the enemy, but when wrongly, his men get the grief of war.

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 ).

An aromatic hydrocarbon or arene ( or sometimes aryl hydrocarbon ) is a hydrocarbon with alternating double and single bonds between carbon atoms forming rings.

This leaves one to share with one of its two neighboring carbon atoms, which is why the benzene molecule is drawn with alternating single and double bonds around the hexagon.

One method of accomplishing this moor is to set a bow anchor normally, then drop back to the limit of the bow cable ( or to double the desired scope, e. g. 8: 1 if the eventual scope should be 4: 1, 10: 1 if the eventual scope should be 5: 1, etc.

The lone pair of electrons on the nitrogen is delocalized into the carbonyl, thus forming a partial double bond between N and the carbonyl carbon.

States vary on whether it is possible to commit an " attempted assault " since it can be considered a double inchoate offense.

* δ Antliae is a blue double star 481 light years away.

* ζ Antliae is a wide double star 373 light years away.

This makes the Br closest to the double bond slightly positive and therefore an electrophile.

By the time of his fifth win of the year at the British GP, he had more than double the points of his closest challengers Jody Scheckter and James Hunt, and a second consecutive World Championship appeared a formality.

Mount Diablo appears from many angles to be a double pyramid and includes many subsidiary peaks, the largest and closest of which is the other half of the double pyramid, North Peak, nearly as high in elevation at and about one mile northeast of the main summit.

If interference is committed by the batter-runner before he reaches first base with the possible intent of preventing a double play, the runner closest to scoring is called out in addition to the batter-runner.

The closest Primary School is Griffe Field Primary School ( Griffe being derived from the French for ' claw ' which, when combined with the name of Hell Brook, gives some credence to the stories that it was a burial ground for plague victims ) which is actually within the estate on Grosvenor Drive, built as a part of the initial development by Birch plc ( since acquired by Edinburgh-based Miller Homes ) but since expanded to double its original size early in the new Millennium.

For example, a sine table with an entry for each degree can be off by as much as 0. 0087 if we just choose the closest number ; each time we double the size of the table we halve this error.

The newspaper quickly became a success ; within a year it had double the circulation of its closest competitor.

Megara deserted the Spartan-led Peloponnesian League and allied herself with Athens, allowing construction of a double line of walls across the Isthmus of Corinth and protecting Athens from attack from that quarter.

While the double bass is nearly identical in construction to other violin family instruments, it also embodies features found in the older viol family.

He states that, while the exterior of the double bass may resemble the viola da gamba, the internal construction of the double bass is nearly identical to instruments in the violin family, and very different from the internal structure of viols.

An important distinction between the double bass and other members of the violin family is the construction of the pegbox.

: ( 2004 ) ( Luas tramway ); electrified ; double track ; additional track under construction

Among the Aztecs ' greatest achievements, Moctezuma and Nezahualcoyotl of Texcoco organized the construction and completion of a double aqueduct pipe system, supplying the city of Tenochtitlan with fresh water.

The construction of the canal would more than double Nicaragua's GDP based on the canal alone ( exclusive of other investments which were estimated in Nicaragua as a result of the canal's construction ).

From 1973 ( when construction began ) until 1982 ( when it ended ), gross domestic product grew more than 8 percent annually, double the rate for the previous decade and higher than growth rates in most other Latin American countries.

* The Basilica di Santa Maria del Fiore's dome construction is started after Filippo Brunelleschi wins the commission for his " double shell " design.

The troops had completed the construction of the fort by the summer of 1804 ; it was a log-built fort enclosed in a double stockade, with two blockhouses.

When another negative word occurs with pas, a double negation interpretation usually arises, but this construction is criticised.

The Elco and Higgins companies both used lightweight techniques of hull construction which included two layers of double diagonal mahogany planking utilizing a glue impregnated cloth layer between inner and outer planks.

* double negative: Grammar construction that can be used as an expression and it is the repetition of negative words

They used a single span, wooden, double Burr arch truss construction.

The Bucher's Mill Covered Bridge was built in 1891 < sup > Note: </ sup > by Elias McMellen, using single span, wooden, double Burr arch truss construction, at a cost of $ 1167.

The port was expanded in the 1670s by the construction of a basin that could hold up to thirty warships with a double lock system to maintain water levels at low tide.

After a " boom " period during construction of the plants, Castle Dale has settled in recent years into a more stable community with a population more than double that of its historic level and with continuing improvement in public services.

On the construction side, the double room depth allowed the house to be more compact and under one, more easily constructed, roof, thus lowering building costs.

The final cost of construction was £ 26, 263, which was nearly double the original estimate.

The 18th century witnessed the construction of a guardroom and a fan-shaped double stairway that were built in front of the building.

The Cayley – Dickson construction can be carried on ad infinitum, at each step producing a power-associative algebra whose dimension is double that of the algebra of the preceding step.

The modern oil fired thermic fluid heater consists of a double coil, three pass construction and fitted with modulated pressure jet system.