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mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grup_de_m%C3%BAsica" title="Grup de música – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Grup de música" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ans%C3%A1mbl" title="Ansámbl – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Ansámbl" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ensemble" title="Ensemble – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Ensemble" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ensemble_(Musik)" title="Ensemble (Musik) – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Ensemble (Musik)" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ansambel_(muusika)" title="Ansambel (muusika) – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="Ansambel (muusika)" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Eesti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agrupaci%C3%B3n_musical" title="Agrupación musical – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Agrupación musical" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo badge-Q70893996 mw-list-item" title=""><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ensemblo_(muziko)" title="Ensemblo (muziko) – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Ensemblo (muziko)" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%AF%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%87_%D9%85%D9%88%D8%B3%DB%8C%D9%82%DB%8C" title="گروه موسیقی – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="گروه موسیقی" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ensemble_musical" title="Ensemble musical – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Ensemble musical" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" 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class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ia mw-list-item"><a href="https://ia.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ensemble" title="Ensemble – Interlingua" lang="ia" hreflang="ia" data-title="Ensemble" data-language-autonym="Interlingua" data-language-local-name="Interlingua" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Interlingua</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ensemble_(musica)" title="Ensemble (musica) – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Ensemble (musica)" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%94%D7%A8%D7%9B%D7%91_%D7%9E%D7%95%D7%96%D7%99%D7%A7%D7%9C%D7%99" title="הרכב מוזיקלי – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="הרכב מוזיקלי" 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title="Ansamblis – Lithuanian" lang="lt" hreflang="lt" data-title="Ansamblis" data-language-autonym="Lietuvių" data-language-local-name="Lithuanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lietuvių</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ms mw-list-item"><a href="https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kumpulan_muzik" title="Kumpulan muzik – Malay" lang="ms" hreflang="ms" data-title="Kumpulan muzik" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Melayu" data-language-local-name="Malay" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Melayu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muziekensemble" title="Muziekensemble – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Muziekensemble" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A2%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B5%E3%83%B3%E3%83%96%E3%83%AB" title="アンサンブル – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="アンサンブル" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musikalsk_ensemble" title="Musikalsk ensemble – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="Musikalsk ensemble" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk bokmål</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ansambl" title="Ansambl – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Ansambl" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Polski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ro mw-list-item"><a href="https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ansamblu_muzical" title="Ansamblu muzical – Romanian" lang="ro" hreflang="ro" data-title="Ansamblu muzical" data-language-autonym="Română" data-language-local-name="Romanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Română</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-rue mw-list-item"><a href="https://rue.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D1%83%D0%B7%D0%B8%D1%87%D0%BD%D1%8B%D0%B9_%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%81%D0%B0%D0%BC%D0%B1%D0%BB" title="Музичный ансамбл – Rusyn" lang="rue" hreflang="rue" data-title="Музичный ансамбл" data-language-autonym="Русиньскый" data-language-local-name="Rusyn" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Русиньскый</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D1%83%D0%B7%D1%8B%D0%BA%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%BD%D1%8B%D0%B9_%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%81%D0%B0%D0%BC%D0%B1%D0%BB%D1%8C" title="Музыкальный ансамбль – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="Музыкальный ансамбль" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Русский</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sq mw-list-item"><a href="https://sq.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grup_muzikor" title="Grup muzikor – Albanian" lang="sq" hreflang="sq" data-title="Grup muzikor" data-language-autonym="Shqip" data-language-local-name="Albanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Shqip</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sl mw-list-item"><a href="https://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glasbeni_ansambel" title="Glasbeni ansambel – Slovenian" lang="sl" hreflang="sl" data-title="Glasbeni ansambel" data-language-autonym="Slovenščina" data-language-local-name="Slovenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Slovenščina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sr mw-list-item"><a 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Some music ensembles consist solely of instrumentalists, such as the <a href="/wiki/Jazz_quartet" class="mw-redirect" title="Jazz quartet">jazz quartet</a> or the <a href="/wiki/Orchestra" title="Orchestra">orchestra</a>. Other music ensembles consist solely of singers, such as <a href="/wiki/Choir" title="Choir">choirs</a> and <a href="/wiki/Doo_wop" class="mw-redirect" title="Doo wop">doo-wop</a> groups. In both <a href="/wiki/Popular_music" title="Popular music">popular music</a> and <a href="/wiki/Classical_music" title="Classical music">classical music</a>, there are ensembles in which both instrumentalists and singers perform, such as the <a href="/wiki/Band_(rock_and_pop)" title="Band (rock and pop)">rock band</a> or the Baroque chamber group for <a href="/wiki/Basso_continuo" title="Basso continuo">basso continuo</a> (<a href="/wiki/Harpsichord" title="Harpsichord">harpsichord</a> and <a href="/wiki/Cello" title="Cello">cello</a>) and one or more singers. In <a href="/wiki/Classical_music" title="Classical music">classical music</a>, trios or quartets either blend the sounds of <a href="/wiki/Musical_instrument" title="Musical instrument">musical instrument</a> families (such as <a href="/wiki/Piano" title="Piano">piano</a>, <a href="/wiki/Strings_(music)" class="mw-redirect" title="Strings (music)">strings</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Wind_instrument" title="Wind instrument">wind instruments</a>) or group instruments from the same instrument family, such as string ensembles (e.g., <a href="/wiki/String_quartet" title="String quartet">string quartet</a>) or wind ensembles (e.g., <a href="/wiki/Wind_quintet" title="Wind quintet">wind quintet</a>). Some ensembles blend the sounds of a variety of instrument families, such as the <a href="/wiki/Orchestra" title="Orchestra">orchestra</a>, which uses a <a href="/wiki/String_section" title="String section">string section</a>, <a href="/wiki/Brass_instrument" title="Brass instrument">brass instruments</a>, <a href="/wiki/Woodwind" class="mw-redirect" title="Woodwind">woodwinds</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Percussion_instrument" title="Percussion instrument">percussion instruments</a>, or the <a href="/wiki/Concert_band" title="Concert band">concert band</a>, which uses brass, woodwinds, and percussion. In jazz ensembles or combos, the instruments typically include wind instruments (one or more <a href="/wiki/Saxophone" title="Saxophone">saxophones</a>, <a href="/wiki/Trumpet" title="Trumpet">trumpets</a>, etc.), one or two chordal "comping" instruments (<a href="/wiki/Electric_guitar" title="Electric guitar">electric guitar</a>, <a href="/wiki/Acoustic_guitar" title="Acoustic guitar">acoustic guitar</a>, piano, or <a href="/wiki/Hammond_organ" title="Hammond organ">Hammond organ</a>), a <a href="/wiki/Bass_instrument" title="Bass instrument">bass instrument</a> (<a href="/wiki/Bass_guitar" title="Bass guitar">bass guitar</a> or <a href="/wiki/Double_bass" title="Double bass">double bass</a>), and a drummer or percussionist. Jazz ensembles may be solely instrumental, or they may consist of a group of instruments accompanying one or more singers. In rock and pop ensembles, usually called <a href="/wiki/Band_(rock_and_pop)" title="Band (rock and pop)">rock bands</a> or pop bands, there are usually guitars and keyboards (piano, electric piano, <a href="/wiki/Hammond_organ" title="Hammond organ">Hammond organ</a>, <a href="/wiki/Synthesizer" title="Synthesizer">synthesizer</a>, etc.), one or more singers, and a <a href="/wiki/Rhythm_section" title="Rhythm section">rhythm section</a> made up of a <a href="/wiki/Bass_guitar" title="Bass guitar">bass guitar</a> and <a href="/wiki/Drum_kit" title="Drum kit">drum kit</a>. </p><p>Music ensembles typically have a leader. In jazz bands, rock and pop groups, and similar ensembles, this is the <a href="/wiki/Band_leader" class="mw-redirect" title="Band leader">band leader</a>. In classical music, orchestras, concert bands, and choirs are led by a <a href="/wiki/Conducting" title="Conducting">conductor</a>. In orchestra, the <a href="/wiki/Concertmaster" title="Concertmaster">concertmaster</a> (principal first violin player) is the instrumentalist leader of the orchestra. In orchestras, the individual sections also have leaders, typically called the "principal" of the section (e.g., the leader of the viola section is called the "principal viola"). Conductors are also used in <a href="/wiki/Jazz" title="Jazz">jazz</a> <a href="/wiki/Big_band" title="Big band">big bands</a> and in some very large rock or pop ensembles (e.g., a rock concert that includes a <a href="/wiki/String_section" title="String section">string section</a>, a <a href="/wiki/Horn_section" title="Horn section">horn section</a>, and a <a href="/wiki/Choir" title="Choir">choir</a> that accompanies a rock band's performance). </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Classical_chamber_music">Classical chamber music</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Musical_ensemble&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Classical chamber music"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:KneiselQuartet.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/59/KneiselQuartet.jpg/220px-KneiselQuartet.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="160" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/59/KneiselQuartet.jpg/330px-KneiselQuartet.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/59/KneiselQuartet.jpg/440px-KneiselQuartet.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1772" data-file-height="1290" /></a><figcaption>The <a href="/wiki/Kneisel_quartet" class="mw-redirect" title="Kneisel quartet">Kneisel String Quartet</a>, led by Franz Kneisel, is an example of chamber music. This American ensemble debuted <a href="/wiki/Dvo%C5%99%C3%A1k" class="mw-redirect" title="Dvořák">Dvořák</a>'s American Quartet, Opus 96 (photographed <abbr title="circa">c.</abbr><span style="white-space:nowrap;"> 1891</span>.)</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:IranianMusicGroup.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/IranianMusicGroup.jpg/220px-IranianMusicGroup.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="164" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/IranianMusicGroup.jpg/330px-IranianMusicGroup.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/IranianMusicGroup.jpg/440px-IranianMusicGroup.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2500" data-file-height="1865" /></a><figcaption>An <a href="/wiki/Iran" title="Iran">Iranian</a> musical ensemble, painted by <a href="/wiki/Kamal-ol-molk" title="Kamal-ol-molk">Kamal-ol-molk</a> in 1886</figcaption></figure> <p>In Western classical music, smaller ensembles are called <a href="/wiki/Chamber_music" title="Chamber music">chamber music</a> ensembles. The terms <a href="/wiki/Duet" title="Duet">duo</a>, <a href="/wiki/Trio_(music)" title="Trio (music)">trio</a>, <a href="/wiki/Quartet" title="Quartet">quartet</a>, <a href="/wiki/Quintet" title="Quintet">quintet</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sextet" title="Sextet">sextet</a>, <a href="/wiki/Septet" title="Septet">septet</a>, <a href="/wiki/Octet_(music)" title="Octet (music)">octet</a>, <a href="/wiki/Nonet_(music)" title="Nonet (music)">nonet</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Decet_(music)" title="Decet (music)">decet</a> describe groups of two up to ten musicians, respectively. A group of eleven musicians, such as found in <i><a href="/wiki/The_Carnival_of_the_Animals" title="The Carnival of the Animals">The Carnival of the Animals</a></i>, is called an <i>undecet</i>, and a group of twelve is called a <i><a href="/wiki/Duodecet" title="Duodecet">duodecet</a></i> (see <a href="/wiki/Latin_numerical_prefixes" class="mw-redirect" title="Latin numerical prefixes">Latin numerical prefixes</a>). A soloist playing unaccompanied (e.g., a pianist playing a solo piano piece or a cellist playing a <a href="/wiki/Bach_suite_for_unaccompanied_cello" class="mw-redirect" title="Bach suite for unaccompanied cello">Bach suite for unaccompanied cello</a>) is not an ensemble because it only contains one musician. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Four_parts">Four parts</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Musical_ensemble&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Four parts"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Quartet" title="Quartet">Quartet</a></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Strings">Strings</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Musical_ensemble&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Strings"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>A <a href="/wiki/String_quartet" title="String quartet">string quartet</a> consists of two <a href="/wiki/Violin" title="Violin">violins</a>, a <a href="/wiki/Viola" title="Viola">viola</a>, and a <a href="/wiki/Cello" title="Cello">cello</a>. There is a vast body of music written for string quartets, making it an important genre in <a href="/wiki/Classical_music" title="Classical music">classical music</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Wind">Wind</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Musical_ensemble&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Wind"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>A woodwind quartet usually features a <a href="/wiki/Flute" title="Flute">flute</a>, an <a href="/wiki/Oboe" title="Oboe">oboe</a>, a <a href="/wiki/Clarinet" title="Clarinet">clarinet</a>, and a <a href="/wiki/Bassoon" title="Bassoon">bassoon</a>. A brass quartet features two <a href="/wiki/Trumpets" class="mw-redirect" title="Trumpets">trumpets</a>, a <a href="/wiki/Trombone" title="Trombone">trombone</a>, and a <a href="/wiki/Tuba" title="Tuba">tuba</a> (or <a href="/wiki/French_horn" title="French horn">French horn (more commonly known as "horn")</a>). A saxophone quartet consists of a <a href="/wiki/Soprano_saxophone" title="Soprano saxophone">soprano saxophone</a>, an <a href="/wiki/Alto_saxophone" title="Alto saxophone">alto saxophone</a>, a <a href="/wiki/Tenor_saxophone" title="Tenor saxophone">tenor saxophone</a>, and a <a href="/wiki/Baritone_saxophone" title="Baritone saxophone">baritone saxophone</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Five_parts">Five parts</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Musical_ensemble&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Five parts"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Quintet" title="Quintet">Quintet</a></div> <p>The string <i>quintet</i> is a common type of group. It is similar to the string quartet, but with an additional viola, cello, or more rarely, the addition of a double bass. Terms such as "<a href="/wiki/Piano_quintet" title="Piano quintet">piano quintet</a>" or "clarinet quintet" frequently refer to a string quartet <i>plus</i> a fifth instrument. <a href="/wiki/Wolfgang_Amadeus_Mozart" title="Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart">Mozart</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Clarinet_Quintet_(Mozart)" title="Clarinet Quintet (Mozart)">Clarinet Quintet</a> is similarly a piece written for an ensemble consisting of two violins, a viola, a cello, and a clarinet, the last being the exceptional addition to a "normal" string quartet.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (February 2020)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>Some other quintets in classical music are the <a href="/wiki/Wind_quintet" title="Wind quintet">wind quintet</a>, usually consisting of flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, and horn; the <a href="/wiki/Brass_quintet" title="Brass quintet">brass quintet</a>, consisting of two trumpets, one horn, a trombone, and a tuba; and the reed quintet, consisting of an oboe, a soprano clarinet, a saxophone, a bass clarinet, and a bassoon.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Six_or_more_instruments">Six or more instruments</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Musical_ensemble&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Six or more instruments"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/Orchestra" title="Orchestra">Orchestra</a> and <a href="/wiki/Concert_band" title="Concert band">Concert band</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:London_Barbican_Hall_LSO_Haitink.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f1/London_Barbican_Hall_LSO_Haitink.jpg/220px-London_Barbican_Hall_LSO_Haitink.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="146" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f1/London_Barbican_Hall_LSO_Haitink.jpg/330px-London_Barbican_Hall_LSO_Haitink.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f1/London_Barbican_Hall_LSO_Haitink.jpg/440px-London_Barbican_Hall_LSO_Haitink.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4288" data-file-height="2848" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/London_Symphony_Orchestra" title="London Symphony Orchestra">London Symphony Orchestra</a>, <a href="/wiki/Barbican_Hall" class="mw-redirect" title="Barbican Hall">Barbican Hall</a>, conducted by <a href="/wiki/Bernard_Haitink" title="Bernard Haitink">Bernard Haitink</a></figcaption></figure> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Concert_Band.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7b/Concert_Band.jpg/225px-Concert_Band.jpg" decoding="async" width="225" height="109" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7b/Concert_Band.jpg/338px-Concert_Band.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7b/Concert_Band.jpg/450px-Concert_Band.jpg 2x" data-file-width="5195" data-file-height="2522" /></a><figcaption>The Indiana Wind Symphony <a href="/wiki/Concert_band" title="Concert band">concert band</a></figcaption></figure> <p>Classical chamber ensembles of six (sextet), seven (septet), or eight musicians (octet) are fairly common; the use of latinate terms for larger groups is rare, except for the nonet (nine musicians). In most cases, a larger classical group is referred to as an orchestra of some type or a concert band. A small orchestra with fifteen to thirty members (violins, violas, four cellos, two or three double basses, and several woodwind or brass instruments) is called a <a href="/wiki/Chamber_orchestra" class="mw-redirect" title="Chamber orchestra">chamber orchestra</a>. A <a href="/wiki/Sinfonietta_(orchestra)" title="Sinfonietta (orchestra)">sinfonietta</a> usually denotes a somewhat smaller orchestra (though still not a chamber orchestra). Larger orchestras are called <a href="/wiki/Symphony" title="Symphony">symphony</a> orchestras (see below) or philharmonic orchestras.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>A <a href="/wiki/Pops_orchestra" title="Pops orchestra">pops orchestra</a> is an orchestra that mainly performs light classical music (often in abbreviated, simplified arrangements) and orchestral <a href="/wiki/Arrangement" title="Arrangement">arrangements</a> and <a href="/wiki/Medley_(music)" title="Medley (music)">medleys</a> of popular jazz, music theater, or pop music songs.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="margin-left:0.1em; white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Please_clarify" title="Wikipedia:Please clarify"><span title="The text near this tag may need clarification or removal of jargon. (July 2016)">clarification needed</span></a></i>]</sup> A <a href="/wiki/String_orchestra" title="String orchestra">string orchestra</a> has only string instruments, i.e., violins, violas, cellos, and double basses. </p><p>A <a href="/wiki/Symphony_orchestra" class="mw-redirect" title="Symphony orchestra">symphony orchestra</a> is an ensemble usually comprising at least thirty musicians; the number of players is typically between fifty and ninety-five and may exceed one hundred. A symphony orchestra is divided into families of instruments. In the string family, there are sections of violins (I and II), violas, cellos (often eight), and basses (often from six to eight). The standard <a href="/wiki/Woodwind_section" title="Woodwind section">woodwind section</a> consists of flutes (one doubling piccolo), oboes (one doubling English horn), soprano clarinets (one doubling bass clarinet), and bassoons (one doubling contrabassoon). The standard <a href="/wiki/Brass_section" title="Brass section">brass section</a> consists of horns, trumpets, trombones, and tuba. The <a href="/wiki/Percussion_section" title="Percussion section">percussion section</a> includes the <a href="/wiki/Timpani" title="Timpani">timpani</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bass_drum" title="Bass drum">bass drum</a>, <a href="/wiki/Snare_drum" title="Snare drum">snare drum</a>, and any other percussion instruments called for in a score (e.g., triangle, <a href="/wiki/Glockenspiel" title="Glockenspiel">glockenspiel</a>, chimes, cymbals, wood blocks, etc.). In <a href="/wiki/Baroque_music" title="Baroque music">Baroque music</a> (1600–1750) and music from the early <a href="/wiki/Classical_period_music" class="mw-redirect" title="Classical period music">Classical period music</a> (1750–1820), the percussion parts in orchestral works may only include timpani.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="margin-left:0.1em; white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Please_clarify" title="Wikipedia:Please clarify"><span title="The text near this tag may need clarification or removal of jargon. (July 2016)">clarification needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>A <a href="/wiki/Wind_orchestra" class="mw-redirect" title="Wind orchestra">wind orchestra</a> or <a href="/wiki/Concert_band" title="Concert band">concert band</a> is a large classical ensemble generally made up of between 40 and 70 musicians from the woodwind, brass, and percussion families, along with the double bass. The concert band has a larger number and variety of wind instruments than the symphony orchestra but does not have a string section (although a single <a href="/wiki/Double_bass" title="Double bass">double bass</a> is common in concert bands). The woodwind section of a concert band consists of piccolo, flutes, oboes (one doubling English horn), bassoons (one doubling contrabassoon), soprano clarinets (one doubling E<span class="music-symbol" style="font-family: Arial Unicode MS, Lucida Sans Unicode;"><span class="music-flat">♭</span></span> clarinet, one doubling alto clarinet), bass clarinets (one doubling contrabass clarinet or contra-alto clarinet), alto saxophones (one doubling soprano saxophone), tenor saxophone, and baritone saxophone. The brass section consists of horns, trumpets or cornets, trombones, euphoniums, and tubas. The percussion section consists of the timpani, bass drum, snare drum, and any other percussion instruments called for in a score (e.g., triangle, glockenspiel, chimes, cymbals, wood blocks, etc.). </p><p>When orchestras perform <a href="/wiki/Baroque_music" title="Baroque music">baroque music</a> (from the 17th century and early 18th century), they may also use a <a href="/wiki/Harpsichord" title="Harpsichord">harpsichord</a> or <a href="/wiki/Pipe_organ" title="Pipe organ">pipe organ</a>, to play the <a href="/wiki/Bass_continuo" class="mw-redirect" title="Bass continuo">continuo</a> part. When orchestras perform Romantic-era music (from the 19th century), they may also use <a href="/wiki/Harp" title="Harp">harps</a> or unusual instruments such as the <a href="/wiki/Wind_machine" title="Wind machine">wind machine</a> or <a href="/wiki/Cannon" title="Cannon">cannons</a>. When orchestras perform music from the 20th century or the 21st century, occasionally instruments such as electric guitar, <a href="/wiki/Theremin" title="Theremin">theremin</a>, or even an electronic synthesizer may be used. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Vocal_group">Vocal group</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Musical_ensemble&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Vocal group"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/List_of_vocal_groups" title="List of vocal groups">List of vocal groups</a></div> <p>A <b>vocal group</b> is a performing ensemble of <a href="/wiki/Vocalists" class="mw-redirect" title="Vocalists">vocalists</a> who <a href="/wiki/Singing" title="Singing">sing</a> and harmonize together. The first well-known vocals groups emerged in the 19th century, and the style had reached widespread popularity by the 1940s.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Vocal groups can come in several different forms, including:<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Based_on_genders">Based on genders</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Musical_ensemble&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Based on genders"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Boys%27_choir" title="Boys' choir">Boys' choir</a> – vocal group of boys who have yet to begin puberty</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Boy_band" title="Boy band">Boy band</a> – vocal group consisting of (young) males</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Girl_group" title="Girl group">Girl group</a> – vocal group consisting of (young) females</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Co-ed_group" title="Co-ed group">Co-ed group</a> – vocal group consisting of both males and females, typically in their teens or early twenties</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Based_on_project_type">Based on project type</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Musical_ensemble&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Based on project type"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Sub-unit – a group that is descended from the main group, with smaller number of members. Usually, all the members are from the main group.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Supergroup_(music)" title="Supergroup (music)">Supergroup</a> – a musical group formed with members who are already successful as solo artists or as members of other successful groups.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Others">Others</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Musical_ensemble&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Others"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Choir" title="Choir">Choir</a> – a group of voices. By analogy, sometimes a group of similar instruments in a symphony orchestra is referred to as a choir. For example, the woodwind instruments of a symphony orchestra could be called the woodwind choir.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Doo-wop" title="Doo-wop">Doo-wop</a> group</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vocal_quartet" class="mw-redirect" title="Vocal quartet">Vocal quartet</a> (as well as vocal <a href="/wiki/Trio_(music)" title="Trio (music)">trios</a> and <a href="/wiki/Quintet" title="Quintet">quintets</a>) <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Barbershop_quartet" title="Barbershop quartet">Barbershop quartet</a> – <a href="/wiki/A_cappella" title="A cappella">a cappella</a> <a href="/wiki/Close-harmony" class="mw-redirect" title="Close-harmony">close-harmony</a> vocal group</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gospel_quartet" title="Gospel quartet">Gospel quartet</a></li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Other_western_musical_ensembles">Other western musical ensembles</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Musical_ensemble&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Other western musical ensembles"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1251242444"><table class="box-Unreferenced_section plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-content ambox-Unreferenced" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div class="mbox-image-div"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Question_book-new.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/50px-Question_book-new.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="39" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/75px-Question_book-new.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/100px-Question_book-new.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="399" /></a></span></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This section <b>does not <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources" title="Wikipedia:Citing sources">cite</a> any <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">sources</a></b>.<span class="hide-when-compact"> Please help <a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Musical_ensemble" title="Special:EditPage/Musical ensemble">improve this section</a> by <a href="/wiki/Help:Referencing_for_beginners" title="Help:Referencing for beginners">adding citations to reliable sources</a>. Unsourced material may be challenged and <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability#Burden_of_evidence" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">removed</a>.</span> <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">February 2020</span>)</i></span><span class="hide-when-compact"><i> (<small><a href="/wiki/Help:Maintenance_template_removal" title="Help:Maintenance template removal">Learn how and when to remove this message</a></small>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>A group that plays <a href="/wiki/Popular_music" title="Popular music">popular music</a> or <a href="/wiki/Military_music" class="mw-redirect" title="Military music">military music</a> is usually called a band; a <a href="/wiki/Drum_and_bugle_corps_(modern)" title="Drum and bugle corps (modern)">drum and bugle corps</a> is a type of the latter. These bands perform a wide range of music, ranging from arrangements of jazz orchestral, or popular music to military-style marches. Drum corps perform on brass and percussion instruments only. Drum and Bugle Corps incorporate costumes, hats, and pageantry in their performances. </p><p>Other band types include: </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Brass_band" title="Brass band">Brass bands</a>: groups consisting of around 30 brass and percussion players;</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Corps_of_drums" title="Corps of drums">Corps of drums</a>, <a href="/wiki/Fife_and_drum" class="mw-redirect" title="Fife and drum">Fife and drums</a>, <a href="/wiki/Pipe_band" title="Pipe band">Pipe bands</a> and <a href="/wiki/Drum_and_bugle_corps_(modern)" title="Drum and bugle corps (modern)">Drum and bugle corps</a> are mostly ceremonial bands</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jug_band" title="Jug band">Jug bands</a>;</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marching_band" title="Marching band">Marching bands</a> and <a href="/wiki/Military_band" title="Military band">military bands</a>, dating back to the <a href="/wiki/Ottoman_military_band" title="Ottoman military band">Ottoman military bands</a>.</li> <li>Mexican <a href="/wiki/Mariachi" title="Mariachi">Mariachi</a> groups typically consist of at least two violins, two trumpets, one <a href="/wiki/Classical_guitar" title="Classical guitar">Spanish guitar</a>, one <a href="/wiki/Vihuela" title="Vihuela">vihuela</a> (a high-pitched, five-string guitar), and one <a href="/wiki/Guitarr%C3%B3n_mexicano" title="Guitarrón mexicano">Guitarrón</a> (a Mexican acoustic bass that is roughly guitar-shaped), and one or more singers.</li> <li>Mexican <a href="/wiki/Banda_music" title="Banda music">banda</a> groups</li> <li><a href="/wiki/String_band" title="String band">String bands</a></li></ul> <p>See <a href="/wiki/List_of_musical_band_types" title="List of musical band types">List of musical band types</a> for more. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Role_of_women">Role of women</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Musical_ensemble&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Role of women"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Suzi_Quatro_plays_a_bass_guitar_while_she_sings_at_AIS_Arena.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/Suzi_Quatro_plays_a_bass_guitar_while_she_sings_at_AIS_Arena.jpg/140px-Suzi_Quatro_plays_a_bass_guitar_while_she_sings_at_AIS_Arena.jpg" decoding="async" width="140" height="198" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/Suzi_Quatro_plays_a_bass_guitar_while_she_sings_at_AIS_Arena.jpg/210px-Suzi_Quatro_plays_a_bass_guitar_while_she_sings_at_AIS_Arena.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/Suzi_Quatro_plays_a_bass_guitar_while_she_sings_at_AIS_Arena.jpg/280px-Suzi_Quatro_plays_a_bass_guitar_while_she_sings_at_AIS_Arena.jpg 2x" data-file-width="528" data-file-height="748" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Suzi_Quatro" title="Suzi Quatro">Suzi Quatro</a> is a singer, bassist and bandleader. When she launched her career in 1973, she was one of the few prominent women instrumentalists and bandleaders in rock music</figcaption></figure> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/Girl_group" title="Girl group">Girl group</a> and <a href="/wiki/All-female_band" title="All-female band">All-female band</a></div> <p>Women have a high prominence in many <a href="/wiki/Popular_music" title="Popular music">popular music</a> styles as singers. However, professional women instrumentalists are uncommon in popular music, especially in rock genres such as <a href="/wiki/Heavy_metal_music" title="Heavy metal music">heavy metal</a>. "[P]laying in a band is largely a male homosocial activity, that is, learning to play in a band is largely a peer-based... experience, shaped by existing sex-segregated friendship networks."<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As well, rock music "...is often defined as a form of male rebellion vis-à-vis female bedroom culture."<sup id="cite_ref-Pauwke_Berkers_2014_p._102_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Pauwke_Berkers_2014_p._102-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In popular music, there has been a gendered "distinction between public (male) and private (female) participation" in music.<sup id="cite_ref-Pauwke_Berkers_2014_p._102_9-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Pauwke_Berkers_2014_p._102-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> "[S]everal scholars have argued that men exclude women from bands or the bands' rehearsals, recordings, performances, and other social activities."<sup id="cite_ref-Pauwke_Berkers_2014_p._104_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Pauwke_Berkers_2014_p._104-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> "Women are mainly regarded as passive and private consumers of allegedly slick, prefabricated – hence, inferior – pop music..., excluding them from participating as high-status rock musicians."<sup id="cite_ref-Pauwke_Berkers_2014_p._104_10-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Pauwke_Berkers_2014_p._104-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> One of the reasons that there are rarely mixed gender bands is that "bands operate as tight-knit units in which homosocial solidarity – social bonds between people of the same sex... – plays a crucial role."<sup id="cite_ref-Pauwke_Berkers_2014_p._104_10-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Pauwke_Berkers_2014_p._104-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the 1960s pop music scene, "[s]inging was sometimes an acceptable pastime for a girl, but playing an instrument...simply wasn't done."<sup id="cite_ref-rebeatmag.com_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-rebeatmag.com-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>"The rebellion of rock music was largely a male rebellion; the women—often, in the 1950s and '60s, girls in their teens—in rock usually sang songs as personæ utterly dependent on their macho boyfriends..."<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Philip Auslander says that "Although there were many women in rock by the late 1960s, most performed only as singers, a traditionally feminine position in popular music." Though some women played instruments in American <a href="/wiki/All-female_bands" class="mw-redirect" title="All-female bands">all-female garage rock bands</a>, none of these bands achieved more than regional success. So they "did not provide viable templates for women's on-going participation in rock".<sup id="cite_ref-I_Wanna_Be_Your_Man_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-I_Wanna_Be_Your_Man-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 2–3">: 2–3 </span></sup> About the gender composition of <a href="/wiki/Heavy_metal_music" title="Heavy metal music">heavy metal bands</a>, it has been said that "[h]eavy metal performers are almost exclusively male"<sup id="cite_ref-Brake_1990_87–91_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Brake_1990_87–91-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> "...[a]t least until the mid-1980s"<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> apart from "...exceptions such as <a href="/wiki/Girlschool" title="Girlschool">Girlschool</a>".<sup id="cite_ref-Brake_1990_87–91_14-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Brake_1990_87–91-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, "...now [in the 2010s] maybe more than ever–strong metal women have put up their dukes and got down to it,"<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> "carv[ing] out a considerable place for [them]selves".<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> When <a href="/wiki/Suzi_Quatro" title="Suzi Quatro">Suzi Quatro</a> emerged in 1973, "no other prominent female musician worked in rock simultaneously as a singer, instrumentalist, songwriter, and bandleader."<sup id="cite_ref-I_Wanna_Be_Your_Man_13-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-I_Wanna_Be_Your_Man-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 2">: 2 </span></sup> According to Auslander, she was "kicking down the male door in rock and roll and proving that a female <i>musician</i> ... and this is a point I am extremely concerned about ... could play as well if not better than the boys".<sup id="cite_ref-I_Wanna_Be_Your_Man_13-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-I_Wanna_Be_Your_Man-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 3">: 3 </span></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Musical_ensemble&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span 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