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    the Viola and how to read Music will give will give you a better understanding of what you have to do to play it. This draft will tell you tips about playing the Viola. According to Anastasia Tsioulcas David Aaron Carpenter plays a 1719 viola that was made by Antonio Stradivarius (Anastasia Tsioulcas pg or 1 ). He is noted as the best violin maker of all time. “His golden age was when his best instruments were made”(Tsioulcas 1). David Aaron Carpenter stated that “Sometimes your Viola is a

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    The Viola Research Paper

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    “A viola is just a big violin.” Contrary to popular belief they are similar in a few ways but they are also different. The violin we all know today came around in the late 17th century. However, before that there were instruments that were similar these first violins had three strings made up of mostly sheep gut. A fourth string was later added to achieve more note variation. Around the same time what we today known as the viola also was created. Both were thought to originate from Italy. In 1666

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    Effects Of Being A Viola

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    If I was an instrument, I would be a viola. Noises that are too high or too low in pitch tend to hurt my ears, and I feel like the viola plays the perfect range of notes. Since I do not like to stand out, I would feel comfortable being a viola because there are usually several of them in an orchestra. The notes of the viola, as well as the other string instruments, seem to flow seamlessly into one another, which describes how I want my life to be. The instruments in this video that I am the least

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    The elegant Viola For this instrument report I will be expanding on my favorite instrument, which is the viola. I decided to pick this particular instrument because I truly enjoy the harmonic, lively and mysterious melodies it produces when it is being played. Additionally, when the viola is played along with other instruments its musical ranges complements the songs because it can alter between Soprano and Bass. Even though it usually does not have solo music composed for it the viola is a string

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    Viola Odorata's

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    factors such as light, water, temperature, and nutrition all take part in plant growth. But do plants affect each other? If there are three Viola odorata’s in a container, then they will grow faster and more efficiently compared to a container holding nine Viola odorata’s whereas they would most likely absorb more water and other environmental factors. A Viola odorata is an annual plant that is also known as a sweet violet ‘Wellsiana’. These plants naturally complete their life cycles in about the

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    Introduction Viola Spolin is the creator of theatre games. The purpose of the theory is to help struggling actors with improv, and I am one of them. When this assignment was given to me, I carefully examined which theatre theorist related to my weakness pertaining theatre and discovered Viola Spolin. About a month ago, I volunteered to participate in Arts Week at my school. My task was to get on stage in front of an audience and improv for two minutes while a dancer, musician, and singer performed

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    Theater Pioneer Research Paper Viola Spolin is one of greatest theater academics known to mankind. Along with being an actress and theater coach, she was also a mother to Paul Sills who has played his fair share in theater arts as well. Spolin was raised in a family who had a strong ties to arts which included opera members and charades. Although probably given the opportunity , Viola did not head straight for the stage. She intentionally trained as a settlement worker. She studied at Neva Boyd’s

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    orchestra I was second chair viola which, me only being a freshman, was a very big deal. At least it was for me. Many of my other friends in orchestra already had their own instruments, and I felt like it was time to get one of my own. So for months I begged my parents. I insisted that I wouldn’t give up playing in a year or two, that I really would stick with it long enough for the investment to make sense. Finally, in the beginning of 2015, they agreed to get me a viola. Now was the hard part

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    which will be related to my instrument-viola. I choose Rebecca Clarke , probably the most prominent women-composer who wrote for viola. Most of Clarke’s compositions were written in the first three decades of the twentieth century, her works was largely unknown until the 1970th. Such is the curiously small impact she made as a composer in England in her life time that the first edition of Lionel Turtis’s book “Cinderella no more” doesn’t mention her viola Sonata, even though now violist from all

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    Chamber Music by Two, Three and Four was made up of three different pieces. Each of the three pieces were composed by, in order, W. A. Mozart, M. Ravel, and J. Brahms. Performing the pieces were Alicia Eppinga on the cello, Barbara Corbato on the viola, Mark Clinton on the piano, and Mihai Craioveanu on violin. These musicians performed sub-sections within the pieces known as movements, which brought their own sense of individuality to the piece while still creating a sense of unity across the board

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