Wagnertuba

The Wagner tuba is a brass instrument. The Wagner tuba is not, as the name would suggest, related to the tuba, but belongs to the family of the horns. It is a stand-alone instrument with three or four valves, which is blown with a French horn mouthpiece. The design is inspired by the tenor horn, the mood like french horns in B and F.

Wagner tubas are always in the sentence, that is, two tenor tubas in B ( range B1 - f2 ) and two bass tubas in F ( range F1 - a1) occupied and blown out of horn players. Therefore, they must be handled as well as the French horn left grip.

Richard Wagner was to build for the Ring of the Nibelung. Wagner tubas were, inter alia, by Anton Bruckner ( Symphony No. 7 in the 2nd and 4th movement, in the 8th Symphony and Symphony No. 9, respectively in the 3rd set ) are used. In the 8th and 9th symphony either 8 or 4 horns horns and four Wagner tubas are always busy. Change In the Ring of the Nibelung, the bugler 5-8 between french horns and Wagner tubas. Furthermore, she ( Elektra and Die Frau ohne Schatten, or in the symphonic poem An Alpine Symphony, for example in the operas ) used by Richard Strauss. Igor Stravinsky used in Le Sacre du Printemps (two B- tubes) and in the first version (1911 ) of the ballet The Firebird. Probably the only work for Wagner tuba solo comes from the German composer Johannes X. Schachtner - burlesque entitled Jägarna pa Karin Hall ( The hunter on Karin Hall ).

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