"The Ring" requires two Wagner tubas in the tenor range and two in the bass.
WSJ: It Takes Brass to Play the Wagner Tuba | By Barbara Jepson | The Ring of the Nibelung
The Wagner tubas are most closely identified with the regal music for Valhalla, dwelling place of the gods.
WSJ: It Takes Brass to Play the Wagner Tuba | By Barbara Jepson | The Ring of the Nibelung
But other composers subsequently incorporated Wagner tubas into major works, most notably Anton Bruckner, Igor Stravinsky and Richard Strauss.
WSJ: It Takes Brass to Play the Wagner Tuba | By Barbara Jepson | The Ring of the Nibelung
Today, the band has 60 trained members who share 16 trombones, six side drums, four tubas and a bass drum.
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Their mix of explicit lyrics, accordions, tubas and 12-string acoustic guitars make for an odd cross between gangsta rap and polka-esque folk music.
The identity of the company that supplied Wagner tubas for the first "Ring" cycle at the Bayreuth Festival a year later is uncertain.
WSJ: It Takes Brass to Play the Wagner Tuba | By Barbara Jepson | The Ring of the Nibelung
And Wagner tubas have been used in movie scores in recent decades, from "Ice Station Zebra" (1968) and "Air Force One" (1997) to the "Matrix" films.
WSJ: It Takes Brass to Play the Wagner Tuba | By Barbara Jepson | The Ring of the Nibelung
Volunteer buglers, young and old, teenagers, firemen, civilians and veterans with trumpets, tubas, trombones and bugles, all stood at attention along roads and highways waiting, honoring and remembering.
In the "Ring, " four Wagner tubas join an enlarged brass section that includes other orchestral rarities like the bass trumpet, contrabass trombone and contrabass tuba, creating "choirs" of gleaming brass.
WSJ: It Takes Brass to Play the Wagner Tuba | By Barbara Jepson | The Ring of the Nibelung
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