Research Paper On The Violin

I've learning violin for eight years, at my first grade, I quit for learning piano cause I don’t really

The first thing you should get is a decent violin, which could cost anywhere between 400 and 2,000 dollars (if you are a beginner).

Even though the size of the violin made it seem less intimidating, learning how to play the violin

The violin is the smallest and highest pitched string instrument. It is played by a violinist or fiddler. When playing, the violinist holds the violin between the top of his left shoulder and the left side of his chin as he draws the bow across the string or plucks the strings with one or both hands. The sound can be stopped by placing a hand on the strings. The bow is made of wood and horse hair. The violin is tuned in perfect fifths. Music for the violin is written in the treble clef. In the orchestra, the violins play in two groups. These are the first violins and the second violins. In the orchestra, the violins sit to the left of the conductor in rows. The first violins are to the far left and the second violins are to the right of them. The Concert Master is usually a first violin player, and he or she sits in the front row of the first violins.

The Violin is a movie that begins how the movie ends, kind of like how Pulp Fiction a notorious movie for doing this, starts off with how the movie ends then at the end the movie all comes together. The Violin displays the lives of a grandfather (Plutarco), father (Genaro) , and son (Lucio) that first start off by playing music asking for money, no one seems interested in giving them money. As day turns into night Genaro goes into a type of bar to get fire arms, at first this is confusing but as the story progresses we understand that a rebellion against soldiers that are raiding towns and kicking citizens out of the town. Plutarco decides to try to get an inside scoop on what the soldiers are planning by going back to the town where his

My journey as a violinist has been a long haul, to put it lightly. I started from the bottom, and grew my skill set incrementally. I have been through finger calluses, an incalculable number of strings, and countless nights of frustrated tears. Despite these difficulties, that wooden box has imbued me with numerous attributes

Antonio Vivaldi, a major composer during the Baroque period, made significant changes during his time, from numerous works to a teacher at the Pieta to a priest. Vivaldi excelled writing in many genres; however, he is known mainly for his concertos (Hanning & Burkholder 264). In the case of the Baroque era, Antonio Vivaldi’s contributions profoundly impacted music for the violin, ushering in a period of popularity for the instrument.

Antonio Stradivari is quite often referred to as the greatest violin and stringed instrument maker to ever live. Much of this credit is given to Stradivari because people simply know his name. Countless violinists have expressed over the years the great frequency that people always ask them if they own a Stradivari instrument or not. The reality is, although Antonio Stradivari was certainly a master at his work, he was not the only one to create stringed instruments and certainly was not the first to do so. People remember Stradivari because of the quality of the instruments that he made. Much of our basis for stringed instruments to date has been, however, influenced by Antonio Stradivari. The basis for Stradivari’s influence on future generations of musicians and instrument makers was shaped by events that happened before Stradivari was born, the perfectionist way he established his workshop, his death, and the physics and name of his instruments.

Sarasate, one of the greatest Spanish violinist in the late 19th century. Sarasate was born on 10/3/1844 in Pamplona. He was not only famous for his great violin technique, it was also because of his beauty of his note that he played Many composer dedicated works for Sarasate, like Wieniawski dedicated his second violin concerto to Sarasate, Lalo's symphonie espagnole etc. When Sarasate was a child, he performed for the Queen Isabella. Then he was subsidized to study music at Paris Conservatory and studied with Delphin Alard. He won the first violin prize when he was 13 years old.

Harpsichord was an important keyboard instrument in Europe from the 15th through the 18th centuries. The Italian harpsichord is a single-manual instrument with a very light construction and relatively little string tension. The Italian instrument is considered pleasing but unspectacular in its tone and serves well for accompanying singers or other instruments. Towards the end of the historical period larger and more elaborate Italian instruments were built, notably by Bartolomeo Cristofori, who later invented the piano. A major weak point of the harpsichord was that the dynamics of each note could not be controlled. This meant that composers could not evoke emotion in their music as much as they

It is assumed from paintings that the violin was invented around the 1500’s. The violin went through its greatest change in Italy from 1520 through 1650. The Amati family were central in the making the most changes in the violin. They also trained many others to be skilled violin makers. Some of these early violin crafters were Andrea Guarneri and Francesco Rugeri. The violin became more established by the 19th century. It included a bow, created by Francois Tourte and its weight, length and balance permitted the player to produce sounds in higher frequencies.

In the book The Violinist's Thumb, by Sam Kean, something that stood out to me was how some of the scientists mentioned in section 1--Friedrich Miescher, Gregor Mendel, Thomas Morgan, Calvin Bridges, Alfred Sturtevant, James Watson, and Francis Crick-- are not only influential, but are also ridiculed or ignored by either scientists, today or then, despite their reputation. For instance, Kean (2012) notes: Though we know Miescher was largely right in defining the nucleus, other scientists balked at his admittedly premature suggestion; there just wasn't enough proof And even if they bought that, they wouldn't grant Miecher's next, more self serving claim: that DNA influenced heredity. (p.23) Kean's use of the derogatory words/phrases-- "balked", "admittedly premature", "if they

It is chiefly associated with the baroque era (1600-1750) and embodies characteristics of exuberance and articulation, reflective of the time period in Western Europe. Italian harpsichords were lightly constructed and veneered in natural wood to allow the tone colour to vary from brittle, well-defined and percussive, to bright, shimmering and incisive. Sound is produced by plucking a string when a key is pressed down, but, a distinct feature of the harpsichord is its incapability of dynamic gradation, rendering it limited to one unvarying volume. Performing artists could not convey the same degree of musical expression on the piano as that of other instruments. This artistic desire for dynamic freedom ultimately led to the development of what is now known as the modern piano. Bartolomeo Cristofori, an Italian instrument crafter, produced a breakthrough technological advance; a new mechanism for the harpsichord which allowed for it to be played with dynamic variations. He named this invention “gravicembalo col piano e forte,” or “harpsichord with soft and loud”, later known as the ‘pianoforte’. Cristofori’s innovation included an

One big change of the violin in the 19th century was the addition of a chin rest. This change results

As stated in this paper earlier at first the fabrication of violin’s strings were with goat gut. Now they are created out of synthetic materials or steel and twisted with various metals. The strings are also strung tighter, about fifty percent. Back then people did not use a chin rest like they do now; in fact, chin rests weren’t even brought until the 19th century (Powers). The fingerboard and the neck are now longer than they use to be. Some other changes include that of the bass bar and the sound post; both are thicker than they were back