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Unit 3: Performance and music language

Quick questions on Tone colour and instrument recognition in VCE Music

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What are recognising instrument families?
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Group your listening by family. Strings can be warm and singing when bowed or short and percussive when plucked (pizzicato). Woodwinds range from the breathy flute to the reedy oboe and clarinet. Brass are bright and powerful, able to play softly or blaze.

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