Sibelius Instruments launched.

Sibelius Instruments launched. Sibelius USA, Inc., 1407 Oakland Blvd., Ste. 103, Walnut Creek Walnut Creek,residential city (1990 pop. 60,569), Contra Costa co., W Calif., in the San Francisco Bay area; inc. 1914. It is the trade and shipping center of an extensive agricultural area where walnuts are among the major product. , CA 94596; (888) 474-2354 or (925) 280-0600, fax (925) 280-0008; info USA@sibelius. corn; www.sibelius.com. $119. Sibelius USA, Inc. introduces Sibelius Instruments, a unique interactive encyclopedia of instruments, bands, orchestras and ensembles, including complete information on every orchestral and band instrument, with full details about their characteristics and how to write for them, and hundreds of high-quality recordings. Sibelius Instruments also explains different orchestras, bands and ensembles, including their historical development and repertoire. With its extensive audio examples, images, interactive quizzes and teachers' lesson plans, Sibelius Instruments is ideal for schools, colleges, universities, libraries, teachers, students, composers and arrangers. Highlights include more than fifty instruments, from alto clarinet The alto clarinet is a wind instrument of the clarinet family. It is a transposing instrument usually pitched in the key of E♭, though instruments in F (and in the 19th century, E) have been made. to xylophone xylophone(zī`ləfōn)[Gr.,=wood sound], musical instrument having graduated wooden slabs that are struck by the player with small, hard mallets. The slabs are usually arranged like a keyboard, and the range varies from two to four octaves. ; more than twenty types of band, orchestra and ensemble, from string quartet string quartetEnsemble consisting of two violins, viola, and cello, or a work written for such an ensemble. Since c. 1775 such works have been perhaps the predominant genre of chamber music. to marching band Noun 1. marching band - a band that marches (as in a parade) and plays music at the same timeband - instrumentalists not including string players ; instrumental writing and playing techniques such as range, bowing, mutes, glissandi, harmonics, mallets and multiphonics; lesson plans, student assignments and recommended listening; and an interactive quiz with 500 listening and general questions. For more information contact Sibelius.