instrument you would find in a symphony?

Question

like the intrument meaning what musical family or what intruments

Answer 1

4 instruments family:
violon family
flute family
trumpet family
percussions (drum)

An orchestra is an instrumental ensemble, usually fairly large with string, brass, woodwind sections, and possibly a percussion section as well. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orchestra

The typical symphony orchestra consists of four proportionate groups of similar musical instruments, generally appearing in the musical score in the following order (with proportions indicated):

Woodwinds: piccolo, 2 flutes*, 2 oboes*, English horn, 2 clarinets*, bass clarinet, 2 bassoons*, contrabassoon
Brass: 2* to 8 French horns*, 2* to 5 trumpets*, 2 to 3 trombones, 1 to 2 bass trombones, tuba
Percussion: timpani*, snare drum, bass drum, cymbals, triangle, wood block, tambourine, marimba, xylophone, glockenspiel, etc.
Strings: harp(s), 16 to 30 violins*, 8 to 12 violas*, 8 to 12 violoncellos*, and 5 to 8 double basses*.

Answer 2

What a wild group of answers you have here. Fact is, if it's an instrument, someone has written a piece for it with orchestra. Therefor, every instrument can be found at some time in the symphony. Even the kazoo.

It's not as complicated as some seem to think:

The strings are the foundation and are:
* Violin
* Viola
* Cello
* Bass (also called Contrabass)
* Harp

[Violin is an instrument - 'Violin I' is a part.]

The percussion provides the rhythm and some melodics:
* Snare and Bass Drum
* Tympani
* Mallet Percussion (including the chimes)
* Battery Percussion
* Piano (and other keyboards such as the harpsichord or organ) is part of the percussion section or are solo instruments

The winds are in two families, woodwind and brass;
woodwinds:
* Flute (C, Alto, Bass) and piccolo
* Clarinet (Eb, D, C, Bb, A, Basset Clarinet, Basset Horn, Bass Clarinet)
* Saxophone (soprano, alto, tenor, baritone) [only by modern composers - not a traditional orchestral instrument]
* Oboe, Oboe d'Amour, and English Horn
* Bassoon and Contrabassoon

brasses:
* Trumpet and Cornet (Eb, Bb, Bass)
* French Horn (and related instruments such as the natural horn and Wagner Tuben)
* Trombone and Bass Trombone
* Tuba (F, Eb, CC, BBb)

A symphony orchestra will have all four primary strings (violin, viola, cello, and bass) and any other instruments that a composer called for in his composition. Some composers such as Wagner wrote for large orchestras with a lot of instruments - others wrote for nothing but the strings.

One thing an orchestra does that bands and wind ensembles tend not to do. If a composer writes for an orchestra and he doesn't need the sound of a flute - he doesn't write for any flutes. When a composer writes for wind ensemble, he tends to include all of the parts in the composition.

Answer 3

You know,in an orchestra I mean symphonic orchestra there are many instruments.Wich we can not fimd in a chamber orchestra.and I want to tell you them by numbers:
First we can see the violin familiy.wich we can say the strings family.This string family has some parts:
1.The violin(1st)
2.The violin(2nd)
3.The viola
4.The celo
5.The bass
6.Sometimes we have guitar,too
the violins are the imporatant part of the orchestra.
Then we have the woodwinds family.wich can have some great solos in a music.
1.flute
2.clarinet
3.oboe
4.bassoon
5.and sometimes in jazz groups we can have saxophone
Oboe is the most important woodwind instrument,because of it's sound and the beautiful solos.
Then we see the percussions family.
1.The piano(the really important one)
2.xylophone
3.tembourine
4.and in jazz groups we have drums
after these we have the brass family:
1.trombone
2.trompet / horn
3.tuba
4.French horn
Trombet is the important one in brass.
In the other orchestras axept filarmonic and symphonic we have these:
1.electric keyboard
2.accordion
3.organ
A Filarmonic or a symphonic orchestra has the important instruments.
In some orchestras we can have the choir group for some notes and musics.

Answer 4

the main instrument family would be strings
Strings: Violin
Viola
Violon cello
Double Bass

Woodwinds: B-flat clarinet ( sometimes E-flat too)
Flute (or maybe a piccolo sometimes)
Oboe ( English Horn / Cor Anglais at times)
Alto Clarinet and Bass Clarinet (very rare)
Bassoon (sometimes)
Baritone Saxophone (sometimes)
Alto Saxophone
Tenor Saxophone
Soprano Saxophone (very rare)

Brasses: B-flat Trumpet / Cornet
French Horn
Tenor-Bass / Bass Trombone
Euphonium
Tuba

Percussions: Timpani (sometimes 4 or 5)
Snare Drum
Bass Drum
Clash Cymbals
Suspended Cymbal
Glockenspiel (mallets)
Xylophone (mallets)
Vibraphone (mallets)
Marimba (mallets)
Chimes / Tubular Bells (mallets)
many many auxilliary percussions
:)

Answer 5

In score order, that is the way the instruments generally appear on the conductors score:

WINDS
Flutes
Piccolo (because the 3rd flute frequently play piccolo)
Oboes
English Horn
Eb piccolo Clarinet
Bb Clarinets
Bb Bass Clarinet
Saxophone(s) (See Prokofiev)
Bassoons
Contra Bassoon

Brass
French Horns
"Wagner" tuba
Trumpets
Trombones
Bass Trombone
Tuba

PERCUSSION
Timpani
Both pitched like Xylophone and non pitched like Snare drum.

KEYBOARDS AND RELATED
Piano
Organ
Theramin
Harpsichord
Harps

STRINGS
Violin 1
Violin 2
Violas
Cellos
Double Basses

Answer 6

Quite a few people have already answered this question comprehensively. Let me just add that it might be helpful to get a recording of Benjamin Britten's "Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra." This narrated work breaks down the orchestra by section and by individual instrument so you can hear the different tone qualities of each--then it reunites all of them for a glorious finale.

Answer 7

The Symphony Orchestra is divided into:
Strings - violins (1st & 2nd), violas, cellos and basses.
Woodwinds - Clarinets, oboes, Flutes and Bassoons.
Brass - Horns (French, trumpets and Trombones).
Percussion - Drums, xylophones, glockenspiels, bells etc.

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Answer 9

strings. violin, viola, cello & bass