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A brass quintet is a five-piece musical ensemble composed of brass instruments. A brass instrument is a Musical instrument whose tone is produced by vibration of the lips as the player blows into a tubular Resonator. The most common instrumentation is two trumpets or cornets, one French horn, one trombone, and one tuba or bass trombone. The cornet is a Brass instrument very similar to the Trumpet, distinguished by its conical bore, compact shape and mellower tone quality The trombone is a Musical instrument in the brass family Like all brass instruments it is a lip-reed Aerophone: sound is produced when the player’s Mediatubaogg -->The tuba is the largest and lowest pitched Brass instrument. There are many different types of trombones. The most frequently encountered trombones today are the tenor and bass though as with other Renaissance instruments such as the Recorder As an ensemble type, the brass quintet is very flexible, with a repertoire encompassing musical genres from madrigals to jazz and everything in between. A madrigal is a type of Secular vocal music composition written during the Renaissance and early Baroque eras Jazz is an American Musical art form which originated in the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States The instrumentation for a brass quintet is very flexible. Many times trumpets will double on piccolo trumpets and flugelhorns. The smallest of the Trumpet family is the piccolo trumpet. The most common of these instruments are built to play in both B-flat and A with separate leadpipes for each key The flugelhorn (also spelled fluegelhorn or flügelhorn) is a Brass instrument resembling a Trumpet but with a wider conical bore In some pieces the French horn is replaced by a trombone. The trombone is a Musical instrument in the brass family Like all brass instruments it is a lip-reed Aerophone: sound is produced when the player’s In some ensembles a euphonium subtitutes for the trombone part. The euphonium is a conical-bore, Baritone -voiced Brass instrument. While a tuba is considered standard, the range and style of many pieces lends themselves to being played on bass trombone. Mediatubaogg -->The tuba is the largest and lowest pitched Brass instrument. There are many different types of trombones. The most frequently encountered trombones today are the tenor and bass though as with other Renaissance instruments such as the Recorder Additionally some pieces call for the use of percussion instruments, particularly tambourine and snare drum. The tambourine or Marine is a Musical instrument of the percussion family consisting of a frame often of wood or plastic with pairs of small metal jingles The snare drum is a Drum with strands of snares made of curled metal wire metal cable plastic cable or gut cords stretched across the a drumhead typically

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