Fanfare orchestra

The Fanfare is a common, particularly in the Netherlands, France, Belgium and Luxembourg form the brass band.

Demarcation

The Concert Band of the Dutch form is to be distinguished from common in Germany fanfare band or marching band. Concert Band Concert Band are fully staffed with chromatic instruments while fanfares mainly of trumpets (often fanfare trumpets ) exist and play fanfares and simple marching music, but no symphonic brass music.

In contrast to harmony, there is a fanfare - orchestra entirely of brass instruments, woodwind instruments such as saxophones and clarinets and percussion. Typical of fanfare is the occupation with many wings horns (so-called " Bugles "). These instruments differ in the type of the frequently used in German and Austrian orchestras wings horns with rotary valves. You have pump or piston valve valves in the rule and include, for soprano or sopranino register the created by Adolphe Sax Saxhorns.

There are also Fanfare Orchestra of only brass and percussion, ie without woodwind instruments, so-called Fanfarorchester Pure (as opposed to Fanfarorchester Mixed).

Many Concert Band playing at festivals and marching through the streets. In the Netherlands and Belgium are most certainly now developed as a full-fledged concert Orchestra ( Concert Band ). In the Netherlands there are more than 2000 Fanfare and harmony orchestra; some concert Concert Band are also found in Switzerland and Norway.

The repertoire for the road orchestra moves from Dixieland and Latin to a variety of dance music from European folklore, especially from the Balkans. The most famous is here Ciocărlia international fanfare from Romania.

Well-known Dutch composer for Fanfare Orchestra are among others Johan de Meij, Hardy Mertens, Kees Vlak, Rob Goorhuis, Jan van der Roost, Henk Bading, Jan de Haan, Jacob de Haan. Much played French composers such as " L' Oeuf " can be found together with freely available compositions on a website.