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brass section

n. The part of an orchestra formed by brass instruments.

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brass section

n. the section of a band or orchestra that plays brass instruments [syn: brass]

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Brass section

The brass section of the orchestra, concert band, and jazz ensemble consist of brass instruments, and is one of the main sections in all three ensembles.

They contain instruments given Hornbostel-Sachs classification 423 ( brass instruments).

Usage examples of "brass section".

A large brass section blared from somewhere behind the doors, and drums rattled and pounded with the rough, genuine sound of actual skins.

Noonday commanded, sounding like the entire brass section of an orchestra.

They were still at that stage of their coital symphony where only the brass section was engaged, as the old metal bed creaked to and fro.

Rogi surged up as the starting pistol fired and the brass section of the band brayed a discordant U.

Spiderman slid back into the recesses of the club, and at ten Barney got on the phone and talked to Professor Hewett and arranged a new appointment for three, then went back to his table and relaxed, as much as he could relax with the hot tuba, brass section and amplified drums.

The percussion group added a brass section, her knees buckled, and she clutched desperately at the nearest bookcase for support, knocking three books off the shelf and onto the floor.

The glockenspiel seemed to dominate, its bright tones filling the place in the composition that Riker considered the property of the brass section.

Erwin said, at which reply Nordhoff turned his back, and picking up his pace marched off through the brass section.

As amorousness is the pastime of players of stringed instruments, and horse-racing the relaxation of the brass section of the orchestra, so eating is the pleasure, and sometimes the vice, of singers.

It is a deep, vibrating chord that hints that the brass section may break in at any moment with a fanfare for the cosmos, because the scene is the blackness of deep space with a few stars glittering like the dandruff on the shoulders of God.