Title: Woodwind section - Wikipedia
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Woodwind section
Contents
Orchestra
Concert band
Woodwind choir
History of the woodwind choir
Original music for woodwind choir
See also
References

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Woodwind section
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The woodwind section, which consists of woodwind instruments, is one of the main sections of an orchestra or concert band . Woodwind sections contain instruments given Hornbostel-Sachs classifications of 421 ( edge-blown aerophones, commonly known as flutes) and 422 ( reed aerophones ), but exclude 423 ( brass instruments, which have their own section .) Contents
1 Orchestra
2 Concert band
3 Woodwind choir
3.1 History of the woodwind choir
3.2 Original music for woodwind choir
4 See also
5 References
Orchestra
The woodwind section of the late 19th-century symphony orchestra (for instance, in compositions by Wagner, Brahms, Bruckner, Tchaikovsky, and Richard Strauss) typically includes: flutes (sometimes with one doubling piccolo ), oboes (sometimes with one doubling cor anglais ), clarinets (sometimes with one doubling bass clarinet and/or another doubling E-flat clarinet ), bassoons (sometimes with one doubling contrabassoon ). The section might also on occasion be supplemented with saxophones. In the early part of the 20th century the woodwinds (as well as other sections) were often considerably expanded.