Cello

Brendan Townsend (cello), and Dr. Fritz Gechter (piano), were an all absolutely outstanding trio and show cased a beautiful composition of Chamber Music. As being recognized as a student of Dr. Huang’s, it is a great honor to watch her play, the perfect pitch of the notes she plays are so pleasing to hear and her bow stroke is like watching a napkin tied to a string gracefully flying in the air. Professor Townsend’s ability in playing the cello gives off great satisfaction; the way the cello is…

book. Jules also tried to protect Luna from the truth about her mother this only caused Luna to be even more mad at him though. Another main character is Oliver he is the boy that plays the cello and lives across the street. He had curly reddish blonde hair that Luna adors. Oliver is a good kid he plays the cello well enough to have a concert in France and is just a well rounded kid. One problem with Oliver is that his father is very insistent that he does what he wants and this causes Oliver to…

moments in my life, One memory stands out from the rest. The first time I ever played the cello was breathtaking and I can remember the day clearly as if it was yesterday. The cello added to the quote I’ve always gone by “All things begin small some grow into something bigger and same fade away as if they never existed”. The start was small and steady but the product of it was astonishing and important. Playing the cello made me realize my love for music and the passion I have for it, That’s the…

this, people can think about the using of pizzicato in the Trio section. It might be not a great idea to analysis only based on the typical sequence or traditional structure of music. However, thinking about the using of pizzicato in trio section (cello and viola) can be discussed. Composers not always use pizzicato which means that they use it as specific purpose. Through the whole 3rd movement, especially the Minute section, is not matching with the traditional musical structures of String…

One of my favorite instruments is the cello. The cello is known as the bass instrument of the violin family. In respects to solo work, the cello is very important in the works of an orchestra. Today, the cello is adored and played by many. One of the most acclaimed cellist is a Yo Yo Ma. He is a songwriter of Chinese decent known for playing the grand classics. Yo Yo Ma is not only an artist of music, but diversifies one’s understanding of what music was like in the past. One example is how he…

There are many reasons why I would like to participate in the Science Research Internship Program. Most notably I am interested in going into a career that is in the realm of science. Secondly, I strongly believe that this internship would be a great learning experience for me that will take my interest in science even further. In addition, it would also be beneficial for me to work in a more mature program especially since it is located at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. This is one of the…

contrasts with the viol, and was more broad in sound (The Story of Music 41). The violin was invented when "Andrea Amati (ca. 1511–1580) of Cremona, Italy invented the violin and was among the first generation of makers to create the standard sizes of cello, viola, and violin in their classic modern shapes" (Powers). There were others that contributed to the invention as well, but Andrea Amati is credited with creating the violin. "One of the greatest composers for the violin was the Italian…

and cello. At 0:30 one of the violins split off and plays the main melody as a solo while the rest of the instruments quiet down and begin to play the bass notes in the background or continue as fillers. At 2:00 it is all incorporated into one complete melody. They all play different notes creating a beautiful harmony that intertwines these sounds together. At 3:00, they have begun to play in a minor key which resembles with a more somber form of playing. They also begin to speed up, the cello…

it often doubled the cello an octave…

Like the bass and cello of today, violas da gamba were played downward, supported at the knees or the ankles: the term “da gamba” meaning “played at the leg”. Early viols had a varied number of strings, usually five or six, and were constructed with a basic fiddle outline:…