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Orchestra Instruments
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Introduction
Artists have materials that they work with, such as a painter who uses different types of paints and colors and brushes and brush strokes, etc., to paint on a canvas. For composers, the classical music forms are similar to the canvas that a painter would use, and the materials that a composer works with are rhythm, melody, harmony, and tone color (i.e. the various sounds that the instruments can make). A composer chooses specific instruments for their specific qualities in order to express whatever emotion, mood, etc., that the composer is trying to convey. Knowing more about the instruments which are used in a piece can help you better understand and appreciate that piece.
Orchestra Instruments
These are the instruments which are most often found in a modern orchestra, with pictures from Wikipedia. Click the name of an instrument to open the Wikipedia page for that instrument:
Woodwinds:
Strings:
Brass:
Percussion:
Keyboards:
Orchestra Instruments Up Close
The website for
The Philharmonia Orchestra
contains interesting and informative videos of orchestra musicians discussing their instruments and demonstrating the sounds that each instrument can make.
Modification History
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June 24, 2014 - New website.
Dave Root
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