Aerophones

After listening to an hour of classical music, I began to hear many more aerophones in classical music than I ever have before. Since many are not very noticeable over the power of the string instrument I overlooked them before. The first piece that was played was a cello piece written by Bach, but the entire piece was played on an acoustic guitar. This song was a solo piece and did not include any aerophones. The second piece that was played was Symphony #85 written by Heiden. This piece had a few aerophones present, but not very many. I was able to hear an oboe very clearly in the piece. Since this instrument has a very distinct sound, it was easy to recognize amongst the violins. I was also able to identify a flute in a few parts of the song. Lastly I was able to identify a bassoon in this piece. Most people would overlook this instrument in this piece, but I am familiar with the sound of the bassoon since I played it in middle school and high school. The last piece of music that I listened to included a variety of different aerophones. Throughout the piece I was able to identify a french horn, oboe, bassoon, piccolo and a trombone. This was by far the most variety of aerophones in all of the songs that i listened to, but it was still difficult to identify the instruments included without listening very closely.