Cello

Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time is scored for piano, clarinet, violin, and cello. It was premiered in a WWII POW camp where Messiaen was held. Messiaen had begun sketches of the piece before being captured, and he finished the piece in the POW camp for musicians that were present. The quartet was premiered in the camp for the prisoners. The piece is in eight movements, and Messiaen wrote an introduction describing the movements. His signature birdsong is featured prominently, as well as…

“If I Stay” by Gayle Forman. Mia’s life is basically perfect. She has a loving family, caring best friend, and devoted boyfriend. Passionate about playing the cello, she is confident she will get accepted into a prestigious school called Juilliard where she can further her Cello career. But, Mia’s hope and dreams of becoming a famous cello player are abruptly shattered, and her life takes an unexpected turn all in one single moment. Mia and her family were driving…

four seasons of the year. He wrote them to accompany poems about the seasons. The section of the concerto known as Winter, or “L'inverno" is the piece this paper focuses on. “L’inverno” is played with strings. Meaning it has violins, violas, and cello. Accompanying these strings is a solo violinist whom the other strings follow in a homophonic fashion. The solo violinist begins and slowly the other strings join playing the same notes in the same rhythm. This creates a very powerful sound that…

I was about to go to an after school club, when suddenly I remembered that my music teacher said I could come to earn my "Rainbow Belt" for the recorder. No one else in my grade had it yet. No one was even close, except for my best friend. He didn 't know what I was about to do. I ran down the hallway with my recorder. Looking back, I 'm not sure whether it was the need to be the first, or that I loved playing my recorder. It was probably both. Later, I walked into the club, proudly displaying…

Messiaen choses to experiment with a wide range of dynamics through out the entire fourth movement. Furthermore, he indicates drastic changes of those dynamics that happen in a short period of time, which presents the audience with an element of surprise. Additionally, the Interlude is the shortest movement in the entire composition, which is 73 measures long and lasts for about two minutes (considering the entire Quartet for the End of Time is about 50 minutes long). Therefore, a rapid change…

with sunshine and cheerful rhythms. The orchestra blooms like a flower, especially the cello with the melody. Then a triumphant, notable crescendo at the end of Movement one made it explode with the complex rhythms and bowings in the violins and fortissimo throughout the whole group.…

The cellos and violas cross strings in an undulating motion. Not only does this portray waves, the crossing of the strings, physically, appear to “waves” in the ocean as well. At the same time, the violins and upper woodwinds carry the melody with trills, depicting…

“Best ten dollars I ever spent!” I exclaimed to my friend while leaving the Disney Concert Hall. On Thursday November 17th, Dr. Brand and Dr. Posegate from the California Baptist School of Music led a school trip to the Los Angeles (LA) Philharmonic at the Disney Concert Hall. There, we experienced a splendid program, including Mosolov, Dvorak, Sibellius, featuring the talented conductor Santtu-Matias Rouvali and solo cellist Johannes Moser. My favorite parts of the program were the performance…

and buried on March 9, 1706. The performer is San Francisco Ensemble voices of music. The members are Tanya Tomkins, baroque cello, Hanneke van Proosdij, baroque organ; featuring Katherine Carla Moore & Cynthia Freivogel, baroque violin and David Tayler, theorbo. This group is really excellent. They have a lot of shows today. We can check the time table on their…

record. For the Viola, there actually was a sound called “Viola”. This voice shared similar qualities with the solo violin midi voice. And for the Basso, I chose the “Cello” voice. Even though the cello voice is warmer that the violin and viola voices, it still is does not sound like a live cello. I thought about doubling the cello part with the double bass, but I decided that it, in its current state, the recording was…