The wind instruments, comprised of brass and woodwinds, took longer to mature. ... Consequently, the brass instruments are less prominent in the music of Bach, Mozart and Beethoven along with their contemporaries. ... Late 19th and early 20th century composers make use of a very large orchestra with all the fully developed wind instruments. ... Currently, composers also make use of the full orchestra but with the addition of increasingly larger percussion sections, which add many, unique and unheard of sounds than in earlier music. ... With the advent of Fusion, electric instruments such a...

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In historical and musicological terms, contemporary music can refer to the modern forms of art music where the artist uses emotion and expressions in making music with sometime employing the use of alternative style and various kinds of musical and percussion instruments. ... The standard orchestral instruments were established during the Classical era that became the most common instruments which included; violins, flutes and trumpets, but during the first part of the classical period a harpsichords was a popular instrument. The invention of a piano however replaced it and the woodwind secti...

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