noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a wind/woodwind instrument
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Violas blend very well with most of the wind instruments.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
brass/rhythm/woodwind/string etc section
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A brass section blares on trumpet, tenor saxophone and bass sax.
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It was in Vegas that Sinatra decided to book Norvo as his opening act and as his regular rhythm section .
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Now, drummers like Roy Haynes or Elvin Jones could be heard and studied, not buried in big-band rhythm sections .
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The rhythm Section became the stars.
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The rhythm section provided a perfect cushion for the soloists, springy and supportive but never obtrusive.
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The string section repeatedly cut through his fraught baritone with great sheets of emotional counterpoint.
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Try I fall in love too easily for the young Marsalis's strong sound gelling with the experience of the rhythm section .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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It can be used as an inner voice in the woodwind ensemble, but tends to be obtrusive.
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It sparkled throughout with some graceful playing by the soloist plus great elegance and finesse from the woodwind .
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Now the secretive whistler with the woodwind song was revealed.
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Strings sound silky but not close and the woodwind come to us from a perfectly judged distance.
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The woodwind can only be used for doubling notes which are already present in the brass.
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The woodwind maintained a perfect pitch and, like the strings and brass, produced a consistently voluptuous sound.
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The large gap between the bassoons and the next woodwind part above is filled by the brass.
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We will now lay out various chords for double woodwind and two horns.