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A fanfare is a short piece of music with brass instruments (usually trumpets) and accompanied by percussion (drums, cymbals etc.) It is used as a call or to announce an important event or person.

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A fanfare is usually a short passage of some type of announcement tune that is played on one or more brass instruments. They are usually played when introducing an important character or characters into a scene, such as a King or Warrior. They are usually royal and majestic-sounding with many perfect fifths, octaves, and fourths (open tones sound more fanfare-like).

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From the basic Music Theory a fanfare is made from the harmonic series which only includes the notes C,E&G.

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