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- What notes are used in a fanfare?
- How do you make a good fanfare?
- What is a fanfare in music?
- What is the most famous fanfare?
What notes are used in a fanfare?
The melody notes of a fanfare are often based around the major triad, often using "[h]eroic dotted rhythms". By extension, the term may also designate a short, prominent passage for brass instruments in an orchestral composition.
How do you make a good fanfare?
What makes a good fanfare? A successful fanfare is one that grabs attention, has good pace, shows development of musical ideas, has a clear and coherent structure, uses the available instruments effectively and idiomatically, and fulfills your intentions as well as those of the brief.
What is a fanfare in music?
Fanfare, originally a brief musical formula played on trumpets, horns, or similar “natural” instruments, sometimes accompanied by percussion, for signal purposes in battles, hunts, and court ceremonies. The term is of obscure derivation.
What is the most famous fanfare?
Famous fanfares
- Trumpet fanfare for the Kentucky Derby horse race.
- Fanfare for the Common Man, Aaron Copland.
- Fanfare for a New Theatre, Igor Stravinsky.
- Fanfare for St Edmundsbury, Benjamin Britten.
- 20th Century Fox Fanfare, Alfred Newman.
