The invention of violin was recorded first in Europe during the Medieval ages. This instrument must have developed from the gambs family popular in the 15th century. The clear picture of violin as it is known today came into existence in the 16th century during the Renaissance period. The instrument like others developed steadily with time to a point when it was able to satisfy new ideas of sound. The same style that was used during the old musical periods is still in use today besides a few technical advancements (The History of the Violin. Web. 22 Feb, 2014. http://www.sprengerviolins.com/e/violin_history.htm)
Violin making became a very popular art in Italy with many manufacturers and players coming from the region. Some of the violin makers in Italy included Andrea Amate, who was the founder of a famous violin making institution known in the entire world. The art of making violin spread everywhere in Europe like the popular Cremona. Some of the best known makers of violin included Antonio Stradivari and the family of Guarneri, who were Italians. Others included Giovanni Paulo Maggini, Glaesel Hotner. Currently, we have known the Yamaha Company among others to be a major instruments manufacturer (Violin Makers Listing. Web. 22 Feb, 2014. www.violinmakers.biz).
Famous Violin Performers
Violin performers date from the times of violin inception to the current times. Here we will look at three famous performers ranging from the classical to the 20th and 21st century.
Niccolo Paganini
Paganini was born in Genoa, Italy in the year 1782. This performer is known as one of the finest violin players of all times. He first took the violin when he was a young boy of less than six years old, and composed his first violin sonata in th...
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Antonio Stradivari, the most famous violin-maker in all the human world, was a favorite of both the god of Delos, the fair Apollo, and of the trickster god, Hermes. His creations sang with the lilt of dance and with the song of birds; many of the Olympians would stop their affairs to listen for even a hint of Stradivari's sound. In short time, it came to be that both Apollo and Hermes would covet a violin from the luthier and both came down in their human forms one day to make their request of him.
Interestingly enough, in one article, Bach is mentioned saying that at first he was not that fond of it. Not until after the Seven Years War was over did pianos become famous in Germany. A few instrument makers in the early 18th century were building on what Cristofori had invented. One of these makers was Zumpe who became famous for his “square” pianos around the 1720’s in Germany. Fransisco Mirabal is making pianos in Spain in 1745, while Thomas Culliford starts a piano making business in London just five years later. In the 1760’s Guib and Gulliford were making pianos for Longman & Broderip (famous music publishers). A few years later in 1772, Johann Stein developed pianos with what is called the Viennese action, which is allegedly the type of piano Mozart preferred. It was not until 1775 that the piano made its debut in America. Johann Behrent of Philadelphia created square
Antonio Stradivari, a man known by many as on of the greatest luthiers of all time. The question at hand is why? From as early as the early 1700’s Stradivari was well known in the music world and still is. His instruments are reproduced in order to fool consumers into buying an instrument that has the same design as a Strad. There are also luthiers that try to replicate Stradivari’s beautiful design for their own satisfaction. Antonio Stradivari’s instruments have become socially and technically popular over time due to his superior craftsmanship, and for others, its large price tag. Stradivari’s life, affecting how his instruments were made, changed the perception of his instruments technically and socially.
This paper will be explaining the history behind the creation of the harpsichord. This paper will also look at some of the famous harpsichord composers throughout history. There are many other interesting instruments in the world, but the harpsichord made it possible to create many different sounds that led to even greater compositions. The harpsichord was the quintessential instrument in producing the modern days string instruments that are seen in the world today. The harpsichord made it possible to create legendary musical pieces. The harpsichord was one of the main instruments used during the time known As the Baroque Period.
The clarinet is a woodwind instrament consisting of a cylindrical wood, metal, or ebonite pipe with a bell-shaped opening at one end and a mouthpiece at the other end, to which a thin reed is attached. The clarinet has five different sections, the mouthpiece, the barrel, the upper section, the lower section, and the bell. The length of the entire instrument is 60 cm long. The mouthpiece section consists of a slotted cylinder, to which a reed is attached by a metal clamp called a ligature. The mouthpiece plugs into the next section which is a barrel. The barrel is simply a connecting cylinder to which the mouthpiece and the upper section plugs into. The upper section is a cylindrical pipe consisting of 4 holes and 9 keys placed in different locations along the pipe. On the back of the pipe there is a hole and a key that is used by the thumb. The lower section plugs into the upper section and is also connected via a special bridge key. This piece consists of 3 holes and 8 keys. On the inward facing side of the pipe, there is a protruding piece of metal called a thumb rest, which supports the entire clarinet. The bell plugs into the lower section. It consists of a cylinder that flares out into a bell shape and ends the clarinet.
The violin is one of the most recognizable musical sounds heard around the world today. They are used in pop concerts, classical symphonies, small ensembles, chamber ensembles, and much more. Although the violin is a vital part of today’s music, it was also a vital part to the beginning of music. The Renaissance period, which is roughly from 1400 AD to 1700 AD, saw the rise of the violin as a professional instrument, “Throughout the second half of the sixteenth century the violin was an exclusively professional instrument.” This period saw the rise of the violin to a prominent status among musical composers. The Classical Period, which is from around 1750 AD to 1820 AD, gave way to artists like Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Ludwig van Beethoven.
Giuseppe Torelli, was an Italian violinist, teacher and composer, is considered one of the early developers of the Baroque concerto and concerto grosso. Torelli also composed a significant number of works for the trumpet during the Baroque period (1600-1750). Around 1690, one can begin to see the first works for the trumpet. He was familiar with the virtuoso trumpeter, Giovanni Pellegrino Brandi. Brandi would sometimes play with the San Petronio orchestra, of which Torelli was violin player. This acquaintance could explain Torelli’s awareness of the trumpet’s timbre, dynamic range, and expressive capabilities.
Music has shaped the lives of people throughout history. Even in its earliest forms, music has included use of instruments. One of the oldest musical instruments known is a variation of the flute; the original flute is thought to date back nearly 67,000 years ago. Tonight we are going to move throughout the eras with a history of instrumental music. This concert will begin with the Renaissance Era and continue through time until we have reached modern instrumental music.
A Italian named Andrea Amati made the cutting edge violin family around the year 1555, bowed stringed instruments were imagined much sooner than this date. I say this Because you can even say a fiddle was before it. The violin as an instrument has developed after some time, as opposed to as a consummated item that was promptly imagined. While there are records of stringed instruments existing in Europe in the Middle Ages, it is suspected that the initially bowed, stringed instruments may have begun in Central Asia with instruments, for example, the morin khuur from Mongolia. These Central Asian instruments then ventured out by means of exchange courses to different parts of the world. When instrument specialists in Europe got to be distinctly
Bie, Oscar. A History of the Pianoforte and Pianoforte Players. trans. by E. E. Kellett
Federico Fellini was born on January 20, 1920, in Rimini, Italy. After a mostly uneventful childhood, Fellini moved to Rome at age 19 after he dropped out of Law School (Encyclopaedia Britannica). In Rome he contributed to a humor magazine, Marc’Aurelio, with cartoons, stories and gags (Encyclopaedia Britannica). During World War II he became a scriptwriter and later married his wif...
The evolution finally progressed so far that the modern day guitar that we know came around. The first one was created from 1800-1850. It is called the Spanish Court Guitar. This was the first six-string guitar. The body was made of rosewood, the neck ...
Antonio Vivaldi was born on March 4th, 1678, in Venice, Italy, and died on July 28, 1741, in Vienna, Austria. His father, a barber and a talented violinist at Saint Mark's Cathedral himself, had helped him in trying a career in music and made him enter the Cappella di San Marco orchestra, where he was an appreciated violinist.
Giovanni Battista Lulli was born on November 28, 1632. His father, Lorenzo di Maldo, was a miller and his mother, Caterina del Sera, was a miller’s daughter. Lully was born in Florence, Italy and lived there until age 11. While in Italy he studied dance and music; he played violin and guitar. In March of 1646 he moved to France to tutor Mlle de Montpensier in Italian. There he studied composition and harpsichord. Lully was able to hear the King’s grande bande perform, witness balls where the best French dance music was played.
Most of the early music that we have today still in print is primarily sacred music. This music, for the most part, is in the form of sections of the Mass, such as the Gloria, Kyrie and Agnus Dei. Most people of the Middle Ages were poor peasants who worked all day for meager wages and had no idle time lounging the way the upper classes did. Therefore, there are few extant secular compositions of music from this era. The rise of a new middle class, however, gave financial freedom for some people to spend time and money on entertainment in the form of music and dance. Thus, the rise of the middle classes also gave way to the rise in composition and performance of secular music, which became the music of choice for composers of that day.