Read the text again. Answer the questions.
Пример: 1. Which two composers does the article mention?
Bach and Mozart
2 What are the four main instrument families
in an orchestra?
3 Give one example for each instrument family.
4 Which is the smallest string instrument
in the orchestra?
5 How many violins are there in a modern
symphony orchestra?
6 What does a conductor use to conduct
an orchestra?
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2.Families of the Orchestra
These characteristics ultimately divide instruments into four families: woodwinds, brass, percussion, and strings.
3.Families of Musical Instruments
Brass instruments include trumpet, trombone, tuba, French horn, cornet, and bugle.
Percussion instruments include drums, cymbals, triangle, chimes, tam-tam, glockenspiel, timpani, bells, and xylophone.
Stringed instruments include the violin, viola, cello, bass, harp, and dulcimer.
4.violin
The strings are the largest family of instruments in the orchestra and they come in four sizes: the violin, which is the smallest, viola, cello, and the biggest, the double bass, sometimes called the contrabass.
5.A modern full-scale symphony orchestra consists of approximately one hundred permanent musicians, most often distributed as follows: 16–18 1st violins, 16 2nd violins, 12 violas, 12 cellos, 8 double basses, 4 flutes (one with piccolo as a specialty), 4 oboes (one with English horn as a specialty), 4 clarinets (one with ...
6.baton
Nowadays conductors use either a baton (for a large ensemble) or just their hands. There are set patterns and gestures which communicate key features of the music, but since the players often already have those features written on their scores this isn't the conductor's main role.