Post on 06-Jan-2016
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The Brass Instrument Family
Tracey Titkemeier
General Music Class
4th Grade
What is a Family?
• People in a family are related to each other
• They usually look somewhat alike
• People probably tell you all the time that you look like your Mom or your Dad
• Although you are related to the people in your family, you are uniquely different from all of them
• You do not look exactly like someone else in your family, and you are probably a different size and shape than everyone else in your family too
• Your age is also probably different from everyone else in your family
• It would be weird if everyone in a family was exactly alike
• How would you be able to tell the difference between each other?
• What excitement would there be in life if everyone was the same?
Instruments and People
• Instruments are like people in certain ways
• Instruments look and sound different from one another, just like people look and talk different from each other
• Instruments also belong to families just like people do
Instrument Families
• There are four different instrument families
• 1) The Percussion Family
• 2) The String Family
• 3) The Woodwind Family
• 4) The Brass Family
• We are going to learn about the Brass Family• There are four instruments that belong to the
Brass Family • These instruments are:• The Trumpet• The French Horn• The Trombone• And the Tuba
• All of these instruments in the Brass Family are related to each other and are included in the “Brass” Family because they are all made out of a metal that is called “brass”
• This metal is gold looking and it is very shiny
• Although the instruments in the Brass Family are made out of the same kind of metal, they do not all look alike
• Some of the instruments are bigger than the others, and some are smaller
• Some of the instruments are shaped in a different way than the others
The Trumpet
• The first instrument in the Brass Family is the Trumpet
• The Trumpet is the smallest instrument in the Brass Family
• It makes a high pitched sound
The French Horn
• The second instrument in the Brass Family is the French Horn
• The French Horn is the second smallest instrument in the Brass Family
• It makes a lower pitched sound than the Trumpet
The Trombone
• The third instrument in the Brass Family is the Trombone
• The Trombone is the longest instrument in the Brass Family
• It makes a lower pitched sound than the French Horn
The Tuba
• The fourth instrument in the Brass Family is the Tuba
• The Tuba is the biggest instrument in the Brass Family
• It makes a very low pitched sound
Questions To Think About
• Do all of these instruments in the Brass Family look the same?
• What is different about each of them?
• How are they alike?
• Why are they all in the same family?
• The Trumpet, the French Horn, the Trombone, and the Tuba are all different instruments, but they all belong to the same family
• Just like people, instruments belong to a family too