Chamber Organ: This compact chamber organ made in 1742 by Johann Schnetzler, has many of the same qualities that you would expect from an organ in your local church. The difference, as far as I can hear, is that the organ sounds much less full and deep in the length of the notes. Most likely because of the size compared to that of a larger organ. That being said, this organ, compared to the other three types on exhibition, has a very unique sound which I describe as a mix between a harpsichord and a grand piano as the tone still contains the deepness of a piano while having a lighter feeling to its sound like a harpsichord.
Clavichord: This very simple German-made clavichord, in terms of stringed keyboard instruments, has a very unique sound,
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It is simply a better made and higher quality instrument than that of the Clavichord that we heard before. The plucking mechanism is very precise resulting in a much more pleasing sound, of course at a higher price as well. I related it in my own head to the difference between buying a cheaper sedan or buying a sports …show more content…
For example, many flutes are made of boxwood. The reason for this is because boxwood was available during the time, and also because boxwood is a very fine grained wood that accepts many carvings and holds its shape well over time. So, when the maker of the flute was carving and shaping, boxwood would not crack, and would also last for the buyer. Rosewood was also used for the bows of violins and violas because it is a very flexible and bendable wood which is important for the player as the flex of the bow can help the player make different sound inflections while playing. Dalbergia melanoxylon or grenadilla wood is also used for a lot of wood instruments because of its ability to repel the humidity from the breath of the player, meaning that it would last much longer than any other wood (natural resin-anti-fungal). Also, the grain of the wood is very uniform, leading to less issues when making an instrument like an oboe because there are lots of screws put into the wood for each piece. Grenadilla will not split like other woods would, but the issue is that grenadilla is a very wood now, only found in parts of Africa, taking more than 75 years for a tree to grow large enough for the construction of one
Flutes made of bone are far more likely to survive than wood, cane, or reed flute. In parts of the southern United States, river reed was used to make flute. This reed has a natural join that serves as a sort of barrier that helps create a chamber. These flutes are kind of easy to make and have a significance influence on modern flute. The oldest existing Native American flute is the Beltrami Native American flute [4]. It was collected by the Italian explorer Giacomo Costantino Beltrami on a journey through present-day Minnesota in 1823. This flute made of a single piece of Western Red Cedar (Gatliff, 2007). About in 1825, people found the Hutter Winnebago flute, shown in picture 5. [5]. The flute were used for many reasons, usually for courting, ceremonies, and tribe activities. Flutes were used for entertainment, encourage people and spirit ceremonies; many of these songs still exist today, like we learned in class, The Rabbit song, Standing Elk song etc. Here is an interesting story about flute usage of
Johann Sebastian Bach was born into a family of musicians. It was only natural for him to pick up an instrument and excel in it. His father taught him how to play the violin and harpsichord at a very young age. All of Bach’s uncles were professional musicians, one of them; Johann Christoph Bach introduced him to the organ. Bach hit a turning point in his life when both of his parents died at the age of ten years old. Bach’s older brother Johann Christoph Bach took him in and immediately expanded his knowledge in the world of music. He taught him how to play the clavichord and exposed him to great composers at the time. At the age of fourteen, Bach and his good friend George Erdmann were awarded a choral scholarship to the prestigious musical school St. Michael’s in Luneburg. From then on, Bach began to build his career in the music industry. His first two years at the school he sang in the school’s a cappella choir. Historical evidence has shown that Bach at a young age would visit Johanniskirche and would listen to the works of organ player Jasper Johannsen. This was thought to have been the inspiration to Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in D minor. Studying at the prestigious musical school has help Bach network his way around and become acquaintances’ with some of the best organ players at the time such as Georg Böhm, and Johann Adam Reincken. Through his acquaintance with Böhm and Reincken Bach had access to some of the greatest and finest instruments.
To satisfy the middle-class amateur, classic composers supplied a ton of new chamber music for all imaginable combinations. The piano sonata became a very important form of chamber music, especially after being refined by Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven. After 1765, the string quartet began to increasingly dominate the chamber music field.
Johann Sebastian Bach was a composer, a musician, teacher, and organist who later became a specialist in construction of organs. Bach learnt to play the violin, the orchestra, and the organ from his father and his famous uncle and twin brother to the father, Johann Christoph at a young age. The organ was his chosen instrument. He also achieved success in the art of Fugue, choral polyphone, instrumental music and dance forms. In Eisenach he attended Old Latin Grammar School, the same school that Martin Luther had attended. He sang in the schools choir. His parents died before Bach was 10 years old. His mother died when Bach was nine years old, his father’s death followed nine months later (Sherrane, 2011). After the parents death Bach was taken in by his older brother Johann Christoph who had already established himself as an organist in Ohrdruf. Johann Christoph had a great influence in Bach’s success in music as he taught him and encouraged him to study music composition. At the same time Bach was attending the Gymnasium grammar school in Ohrdruf where he studied theology, Latin...
It has gone through many different styles. Throughout the Rococo period, woodworking on furniture became very ornate. During the Industrial Revolution, the furniture became less of an art form than it had been in the past (Morgan, Tony) There are a lot of tools that were used for woodworking one hundred and fifty
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.
That brings us to the last segment of our concert, the Modern Era. Traditoinal musical instruments in the modern period have not changed nearly as much as they have in the 18th and 19th centuries. There have been gradual iterations of musical instruments within the 1900’s, such as updates to the violin family. There were many new instruments created in the Modern Era, all of which focused around electricity. This evening’s selections do not include any such selections with electronic instruments; however, there are arrangements available for the electric instruments such as the organ, keyboard or syntehsizer, or electric guitar.
mahogeny wood, which gives the guitar a more Classical look and feel and also a
At first glance you may think that harp and piano look nothing alike, but you would be surprised by how similar these instruments really are. The instruments look alike in three main ways: size, shape, and structure. It is no secret that both harp and piano are unnecessarily large and bulky instruments that seem almost impossible to move. They both weigh a lot and are awkward in size when it comes to transporting them. Along with size, both harp and piano have similar shapes. If you put these instruments side by side, it would seem otherwise, but it’s all about perspective. If you look at a piano from a top view, you will see that the shape is that of a harp. Some might even say that piano is a sideways harp, not the other way around, because, in fact, harp was invented first. The structure of these two instruments is also very similar. Much like shape, it doesn’t seem like they are alike in any way when it comes to structure, but they actually are! Though the piano is played by pressing down on the keys, both
The heaviest wood that dissipates the most amount of energy is oak, creating a lower, flat sound. When the wooden shell construction isn’t enough for drummers to achieve the right amount of sound wave dampening, different drum heads are used.
...dals (such as the orchestra harp- has 7 pedals) to alter the pitch. The pedals control other mechanisms inside the neck of the harp and make the tuning discs rotate- tightening the strings and hence produces a higher pitch- these pedals provide the harp with a range of alterable pitches. The smaller sized harps have sharping levers to tighten the strings a half step tighter.
While people can split many different types of wood there are four main ones that I have worked with. They all are very different. One type of wood is hard, while the other soft. One has lots of knots (places’ were braches use to be) and the other has very few. The names of the four main types of wood are, cotton wood, maple, alder and oak. I will discuss the pros and cons of all them.
There are many different types of wood that are used to make the body of a guitar, a few different types include basswood, maple, and walnut wood.
From the neck all the way down to the soundboard all of it has a purpose for building a guitar. Strings, hardware, the types of paint, above all the wood matters. Not all the woods are suitable for use in the guitar, to qualify as good guitar wood, the wood must be strong enough to hold up structurally, but also have the tonal characteristics that a luthier is looking for. Each of
Wood carving, like weaving, is among the oldest crafts in the world. Thousands of years ago, during the Stone Age, prehistoric people made use of different types of wood as weapons and handles for their hunting tools.