The violin bow is very important because it’s what makes the instrument create music. The bow structure play a huge role in the sound created, therefore, if it was changed the sound would be completely different. Throughout history the violin has remained pretty much the same though the violin bow was altered multiple time in order for the performer to create the sound they desire.Overall the history of the violin bow is split into three periods, Baroque, Classical, and Modern. During the baroque
Viola Liuzzo, a young housewife and mother, devoted her time and her life to the Civil Rights Movement. Ku Klux Klan murderers ended her membership as a Freedom Rider volunteer during the Selma March and her life. My report will reflect the cause of her murder and how did her death and the mock trials of her killers cause a ripple effect across the civil rights community, judicial system, FBI and the White House. It will be discussed how her life would lead to the change of policies regarding
Now, the viol and the violin are very similar in shape, sound, and overall quality, but they did have a distinct difference during the Renaissance age. As one can see in Figure A the viol looks similar to that of standard modern violin, but the viol is much larger in comparison with the violin. Also, the viol consisted of having six strings strung across its body, where as the violin only had four during the
drastically changed in size, sound, and significance. One example that shows that the history of the cello is full of change is because it has drastically changed in size and shape. According to Andrew Dunn, if you were to compare today’s cello to the viol da gamba family, which was one of the cello’s ancestors, you would see a lot of difference in just the shape of it. It was shaped a lot like that of today’s double-bass and had frets on the fingerboard (1). The frets added more texture to the cello
I chose Louis Couperin- Prelude from Suite in C Major. After listening to the music, it almost sounds like he’s warming up before he goes into virtuosic piece. A prelude is a brief keyboard piece that is either an independent composition or it’s an introduction to another piece. They almost sound like an improvisation piece. (Ferris, pp. 127-128, 2014) The harpsichord was very detrimental to the Baroque era. The harpsichord is a piano like instrument that is plucked instead of hit with a hammer
Claudio Monteverdi Claudio Monteverdi was born on May 15, 1567, in Cremona Italy, Monteverdi was an Italian composer of the late Renaissance and the Early Baroque, and is known as the first great composer of the operas. Monteverdi is often view as a composer of the Renaissance and of the Baroque, there is a similar pattern in that is continuous that is often viewed through his work in both styles. Monteverdi often was known as a dramatic composer, while bringing a tremendous meaning from the text
Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s “Sonnet 32” from Sonnets from the Portuguese is a reflection of the speaker’s relationship with her suitor, and how she expresses her doubt at the abruptness of the courtship, along with her worthiness for such affection. Through the progression of the poem the speaker portrays apprehension at the swift manner of their infatuation and skepticism over her significance towards her admirer, revealing the speaker’s remorseful undertone of dubious thoughts towards her relationship
"History repeats itself." That statement has been proven true due to the love for music that first started in the 14th century and has only grown stronger since then. Music first started flourishing in the 14th to the 16th century, a period known as the Renaissance. This time period brought light to Europeans after the dark events of the Medieval period. Renaissance simply means "rebirth," many changes were made and people started to develop new technology and other important developments. One of
plucked strings, bowed strings, brass, double reeds, other winds, keyboards, and percussions (McGee, 1985). Lutes, drums, and trumpets were often used, but the instruments that were especially popular during the Renaissance include the bass viol, treble viol, viola, violin, tenor sackbut, cornetto, bass sackbut, curtal, tenor shawm, bass recorder, and harpsichord (McGee, 1985). Instrumental Music From the Early Renaissance to the High Renaissance, there was a movement from vocal music to a
Although instruments are not necessary for music, what would it be like if they didn’t exist? What would western music be without the likes of the piano, violin, horn, or organ? The evolution of instruments has helped shape what we know as western music. Without each step in this process being taken things could have come very differently. This paper serves as a type of time-line that relates how this progression of instruments had an impact on historical western music. Origins For centuries instruments
An Annotation of Edgar Allan Poe’s The City in the Sea Edgar Allan Poe had his own unique view on what poetry should be. A lecture he wrote, “The Poetic Principle,” covers his viewpoints and sheds light on many of his poems. We will use it to examine “The City in the Sea.” First, Poe felt that the goal of all poetry should be Beauty. What is poetry? It is not the mere “oral or written repetition of forms, and sounds and colors and odors, and sentiments.” No, whoever just repeats his experiences
The concert of the Willie Nelson Experience (WNE) was a huge success. Our success shook the roots of Arlington. Our rock n roll took us to the top. Although street performing is not as easy as it looks, our legend of the great Willie Nelson Experience begins now. In this paper, I am going to discuss my experiences playing in the WNE, the bass guitar, and the one and only Willie Nelson. In the legendary WNE, I am the bass player. For this project, it took hours on end of studying the bass inside and
Compare, contrast and contextualize Wallace Stevens, "Study of Two Pears" and Li Young-Lee, "Persimmons". Compare, contrast and contextualize Wallace Stevens, "Study of Two Pears" and Li Young-Lee, "Persimmons". (1) Wallace Stevens was born in Reading, Pennsylvania on October 2, 1879, and became one the most accomplished poets of his era. His modernist ideology coincides with colleagues such as T.S. Elliot and Ezra Pound. In his life Stevens wrote many poems, collected in over ten major
1. When and where was the composer born? William Byrd was born in London, England around 1540 or 1543. His date of birth is uncertain because in his will that he wrote in 1622 he described himself as eighty years old but in a document written in 1598 he described himself as fifty-eight years old. He is best known for his work on English madrigals and was also an organist and composer during the Shakespearean age. He also wrote organ and virginal music that took the English keyboard style to new heights
first thing that you notice about these two poems is the similarities in subject. Work and Play and The Warm and the Cold both feature the presence of wildlife and the countryside. The Warm and the Cold: And the butterfly in its mummy Like a viol in its case And the owl in its feathers Like a doll in its lace. Work and Play ============= The swallow of summer, she toils all the summer A blue-dark knot of glittering voltage A whiplash swimmer, a fish of the air. Both
the tempo of the piece around the third movement was presto. Throughout the piece, there was sharp rise in the pitch range. There were also a lot of trills that created sounds that were similar to birds. The texture of the piece was polyphonic. The viol created a contrasting sound that was different and was distinguishing among the other string instruments. The quartet had a different bow technique and fast hand movements. There was also terraced dynamics that created a contrast in the volume of the
know the host or are even invited at all. This chapter builds on the idea that there is something not only mysterious, but sinister, about Gatsby. As Nick makes his way to the party he sees "A whole pit full of oboes and trombones and saxophones and viols and cornets?" Fitzgerald uses polysyndeton, the repetition of conjunctions. He chooses a technique to put emphases on how important Gatsby?s parties are to others, like Nick, who?s impressed by Gatsby?s turnouts but mostly everyone shows up to make
The Failed American Dream Individualism, happiness, and discovery used to be the primary goals of the American Dream. By the time the 1920’s began, people started to stray away from these three objectives. Scott Fitzgerald shows the moral decay that occurred during the 1920’s throughout the classic novel The Great Gatsby. There is a clear increase in organized crime, materialism, and there is a theme of unfaithfulness throughout the book. Through the use of the character’s actions, Fitzgerald is
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
The 1920s, also known as the golden age, was a time of crime, art, music, literature, and unimaginable parties. The stock market was booming, the country was thriving, buildings were being shot up from the ground, cities drowning with people coming in to seize all the economic opportunities they have dreamed of. Yet, of all that we know about the 1920s no other book has ever been able to portray the golden age as well as the famous Great Gatsby written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Of all the activities