Violin or fiddle is one of the most elegant and meaningful of traditional instruments. The violin usually with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is the second highest pitch string instruments of the violin family, which includes the viola, cello, and double bass. The player produces sound by drawing a bow across one or more strings on the violin, and plucking the strings. Violin can be played in a wide range of musical genres, such as Baroque music, classical, jazz, country music, bluegrass, folk and etc. Violin was invented from Italy in the early 1500s, it evolved from the Renaissance fiddle and rebec, and they are both bowed string instruments from the medieval period. The Renaissance fiddle originates from around the 16th century, …show more content…
And the violin bow had been invented by Francois Tourte (1747-1835), who had made many significant contributions to the development of the bow, and he is considered to be the most important figure of develop the bow. Bow is a stick with a ribbon of horsehair strung between the tip and frog at each end. The bow hair are traditionally comes from the tail of a male horse, but some of the cheaper bows are using synthetic fiber. There are three different period of the bow, which Baroque, Classical, and modern. The Baroque bow was able to allow the player to bow with greater degree of response than fiddle and rebec bows, and adjust the sound. During this period, typical bows have different shapes and designs, each bow become an expression of artist’s craftsmanship. By the late 18th century, classical bows are stronger, with the metal underside, which have helped to stabilize the weak points of the Baroque bow. Since the 20th century, the modern bow is made of mathematical applications. It stronger, improving the mounting for wider, thicker horsehair. Some are not made of hardwood anymore, which made of fiberglass and carbon fibers. The bow weight, height and balance allowed the player to produce power and the greatest in the higher
Fievel hears the violin which makes him think he has found his Papa. But, what Fievel really hears is a recording being played by the gramophone. This was invented in 1877 by Thomas Edison.
It is believed that the Irish brought to the region the fiddle and the pipes. It is believed that the first stringed instrument, the dulcimer was brought by the Germans, Norwegians, Swedish and French. The dulcimer became known as the 1“Hog Fiddle” or “Music Box”.
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.
A Brief History of the Bow Arrowheads have been found in Africa that date back as far as 25,000 to 50,000 B.C. Throughout the next few tens of thousands of years, humans had plenty of time to refine their techniques. Fire-hardening arrow heads, fletching arrow shafts to improve their flight characteristics, "tillering" bows so that the upper and lower limbs have the same bend radius, etc. All of these improvements helped increase the efficiency and accuracy of the bow and arrow, and helped humans to survive and advance throughout the ages. One major advance was the creation of composite bows.
Though little remains of the tillers or prods of these early Roman crossbows, at least one nut has been found intact. This nut is cylindrical, with fingers cut into the top to hold a string, and a seer notch cut into the underside. It is center-bored for an axle. The cuts are more severe than on later examples, thus making the nut flatter than those found on more modern pieces. This artifact, with its easily recognizable geometry, proves the technical similarities between these and much later crossbows. One other artifact is a turned knob that is thought to be the handle end of the tiller. Depictions in column carvings and stone reliefs at Solignac France help confirm this speculation. These images show short, carbine-type tillers with lathe turned handles fitted with massive prods, often stylized in keeping with artistic representation of the period. These prods were not likely to be the severe recurves shown in these depictions. They were more probably simple wooden straight bows. It is likely that at least some of these were of simple composite construction, as the horn or horn and wood composite technology was kn...
Before the pianoforte was brought into existence, the keyboard instrument of the orchestra was the harpsichord. The timbre of the harpsichord was much different than that of the pianoforte, this being primarily because of the harpsichord’s strings being plucked, whereas the piano’s strings
The piano is the most commonly known and most used. The saxophone has the ability to produce a unique sound. The clarinet has a reed connected to the mouthpiece, which the player blows through to create music. The trumpet is another a popular instrument. The trombone is descended from the trumpet that’s with played in bass clef or treble clef. With the larger size the double bass, the player usually has to stand up. The drums include the bass drum, snare drum, and cymbals. Last but not least, it’s good to have a vocalist because songs will sound
The use of firepower also began to put an end to the use of headlong charges and hand-to-hand combat during the Renaissance years. The differences between firearms and the bow were obscene at the beginning of the rifle’s evolution. An archer could accurately hit a target at lengths of 200 meters and discharge ten arrows a minute, whereas the arquebus, or rifleman, only had accuracy at 100 meters and took several minutes to reload. Although the new weapons at primacy did not have the accuracy or the range of the bow, the Italians immediately implemented them into their arsenals.
The crossbow was invented in Ancient China during the Zhou dynasty, around the year 700 BC. A Chinese text, from about 200 BC, gives credit to a Mr. Ch'in of Ch'u for inventing the crossbow. It consisted of a horizontally mounted bow, with a stock and trigger mechanism added. The crossbow is derived from the horizontally mounted bow-trap used by other civilizations around the same time. They had a range of up to 650 feet. The crossbow had a firing mechanism, which was so complicated that it would have been nearly impossible for an enemy to understand how it worked, thus reducing the chance that the crossbow could be copied by hostile civilizations.
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.
Composite bows were found in north Eastern Europe and Asia. The composite bow was a result of great need because wood wasn’t available in the regions where it was found. It was mostly used in North America, parts of South America and what is now Russia and China, and on the coasts of Greenland.... ... middle of paper ... ...
The beginnings of the European guitar are unknown. It is impossible to establish the history of guitar before the Renaissance, but similar plucked-string instruments existed such as the long neck lute. The lute had a waisted sound box alike the guitar and survived from third to sixth century. During renaissance and medieval periods, a wide range of plucked stringed instruments can be found. The instruments include the citole, cittern, vihuela, mandore, gittern, the lute and its
It all began in ancient times with the creation of the psalterion, a dulcimer-like instrument. It consisted of a box shape with wire strings tuned to play a scale across it. Wooden hammers held in the hands were used to strike the strings to create music. Next came the clavichord. The clavichord had a keyboard added which was used to strike the strings by means of small copper plates. The clavietherium, coming next, used gut strings instead of wire, and they were played upon by leather hammers attached to keys. The virginal was also a keyed instrument, but in this case it used quills attached to the ends of the keys or levers to vibrate metallic strings. Composers such as Palestrina, and Byrd used the Virginal in the Renaissance. Even Queen Elizabeth herself played the Virginal. Next came the Spinet, which, similarly to the Virginal, used quills to vibrate the strings. The idea of a square pianoforte was likely to have been come from the Spinet, The Harpsichord, which was of a slightly similar shape to the modern grand piano, came after the Spinet. It used crow-quills connected to a key by means of a “jack” to play the strings. It had two keyboards; with one an octave higher than the other. A...
The Renaissance period was a time of both rediscovery of ancient times as well as new innovations. Some of the inventions included the clock, gunpowder, thw printing press, and the telescope. Due to the invention of the printing press, music became accessible to not only the aristocrats, but to the common man. Alongside the new innovations, there was a rise in musical instruments.
The mandolin is played kind of like a guitar, but has obvious differences. There are many artists that play the mandolin, but the only one