Fiddle

When I first heard Polska efter Hins Anders, I was immediately transported back in time. I listened intently to the rhythmic variation, and smiled despite myself. Ah, yes. This was the music of home. The sound of the fiddle, recognizable to me with not quite as poignant of a sound as the Norwegian hardanger fiddle, swelled a tune of a summer dance. I had danced many a midsummer dance to that sound. In fact, just over a year ago, I danced through the hollows of an old church town, finding my way by the sound of a fiddle playing a similar summer polska at the front of the town. If ever there was a song to study that unexpectedly stole my heart, it was this one. My life started out relatively disjointed. Like the Polska’s inability to fit the mold of most traditional fiddling tunes, my early childhood didn’t fit the mold of most my age. Born in the Ukrainian-Crimean city of Yevpatoria and left at an orphanage in Simferopol at an unknown date, the first fourteen months of my life are a mystery to this day. Blessedly, I was adopted at fifteen months and brought into a new family, where my love for music flourished and my connection to my original…

I. Fiddle on the Roof 1. Genre: American musical 2. Composer: Jerry Bock 3. Lyrical content: the balance between old cultural traditions and new ones as the world advances at the turn of the 20th century 4. Tessitura 5. Harmony: Simple, but steady tempo 6. Orchestration: horn, trumpet 1, 2, 3 : trombone : accordion : guitar : percussion : 3 violin A-B-C : viola : cello : bass 7. Texture: Simple melody, rich harmony in voice 8. How the music…

The performer in the music used traditional instruments called the medieval fiddle. The medieval fiddle also called the vielle was the most popular instrument for both religious and secular songs in Western Europe in the 11th to 16th century. The texture of the music is monophonic. This is because there only one sound also called the melody but has no accompanying harmony. Also, the sound is played at a fixed interval of time. There is the use of the drone in the music. The drone in the music…

Tamryn Rentz P2 When I played my fiddle at church! Have you ever thought about doing something at church? I have. I played my fiddle at church.It was scary. Do you want to know more? Lets get started. My mom wanted me to play my fiddle at church on Christmas Eve so I did. She said that it was her Christmas present. So I played my fiddle at church. I played Amazing Grace and Silent night for my mom she loved it. That day Church was let out early cause of a Christmas Eve play. Well, do you…

Gwendolyn Brooks would spend the majority of her life in Chicago, observing and experiencing life for African-Americans in the city. Many of her works, including “First Fight. Then Fiddle,” revolve around the struggles of blacks as she understood them. Going to a range of schools and meeting a wide variety of people would introduce her to racism and some of its causes, and develop her views on the world. She was motivated by these encounters to use her writing to educate her readers about the…

usurer to gain money. Although he was very happy with the money he was gaining, he converted his life back to Christ to attempt to escape the Devil. He began to pray loudly, go to church regularly, had a big bible on his desk and a small bible in his pocket. On the other hand, even though he converted his life back to Christ, the Devil still found Tom and took his soul and everything Tom owned was destroyed. In the song that was sung by The Charlie Daniels Band The Devil Went Down to Georgia it…

Fiddler Jones to Mrs. Reece all believed that they had one life to live. For certain people, this caused their lives to be better, as they didn’t want to spend it all in regret. For others, this belief caused them deep regret, and they felt as though they had wasted everything they had. They were too afraid to live, they never did. Expecting the unforeseen also played quite a bit in whether their life was good or bad. You can see this very clearly in Fiddler Jones, Franklin Jones and Nancy…

Since I got to choose what I wanted to write about for this report I decided to choose one of my favorite genres, country. It’s a style of music that was first developed in the southern and western states, which used to be known as folk type of music, but since then has transformed into pop/country. I would like to elaborate more on the old country musical instruments. Instruments generally used in the more traditional genre of country music were the banjo, fiddle, harmonica, string bass, and…

Country music is a genre of the United States popular music that has originated in the Southern and Southeastern United States in the year of 1920. Country music takes the roots of several music genres from the southeastern part of the United States known as Blues music, folk music, and western music. Country music often consists of ballads and dance tunes. Country music features instruments such as banjos, mandolins, guitars, fiddles, harmonicas, accordions, dulcimers, acoustic bass, jaw harp,…

Scottish music is very unique due to the instruments used such as the bag pipes, fiddle, clarsach, accordion, guitar, drums, piano, bodhran, trump/jaws harp, mandolins, banjos, gut and wire strung guitar, harmonica and wooden flutes. All these instruments are used in Scottish music even though some may be out dated or adopted these instruments make Scottish music distinguishable from all the rest. The bag pipes are a difficult instrument to learn because first you need to learn the chanter.…