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Flute

Music; Classical

A wind instrument made from a tube with holes along it that are stopped by the fingers or keys, held vertically or horizontally so that the player's breath strikes a narrow edge

Trumpet

Music; Classical

A brass musical instrument with a flared bell and a bright, penetrating tone. The modern instrument has the tubing looped to form a straight-sided coil, with three valves

Clarinet

Music; Classical

A woodwind instrument with a single-reed mouthpiece, a cylindrical tube of dark wood with a flared end, and holes stopped by keys.

Tuba

Music; Classical

A large brass wind instrument of bass pitch, with three to six valves and a broad bell typically facing upward

Bassoon

Music; Classical

A bass instrument of the oboe family with a double reed

Die Zauberflöte, or the Magic Flute, is an opera in two acts composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in 1791. The opera is noted for its many Masonic elements, since Mozart was a Freemason. The opera is ...

Cossì fan tutte

Music; Classical

Cossì fan tutte is an opera buffa (comic opera) written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and first performed in 1790. The plot is based on two soldiers and their fiancées, and a test of their fidelity when ...