Fiddle

guitar is used in most country songs, there are many different parts and instruments cemented into this cultural music. Country music began with the fiddle, which led to the banjo, and then ended up with the guitar too. All of which is an instrument using strings and a neck. Ketch Sucor says, “It’s American folk music when it follows the path of the fiddle and the banjo. All American music comes from the same place. It's just sort of where it ends up, and country music is one of the…

as a fighter which landed him in court quite a few times. He was on the track to become a professional baseball player until he suffered a sunstroke and had a nervous breakdown. He was bedridden for many months, this is when he learned to play the fiddle. “In 1931, Acuff…

instruments include the fiddle, highland pipes, piano accordion, and harp, which slightly differs from the Irish music tradition, which uses Uilleann pipes and the button accordion. The instruments were imported from Ireland, which explains the similarities. Like in Irish music, the harp is the main instrument. The bodhran and flute were never in Scotland and were imported much later in history. There is also a recent development in Scottish fiddles, namely the 5-string fiddle, as played by…

of AA’BB. The Dingle Set, the chieftains used different instruments such as the tin whistle, fiddle, accordion, wooden flute, banjo, concertina, and bodhrán. The Chieftains also used the uilleann pipes like Seamus Ennis. This song also has a dance rhythm of reel. The last song I listened to was Gravelwalk. Eileen Ivers and her band used a lot of electrophones in this song such as the electric fiddle, electric bass, electric violin, and synthesizer. She also used the uilleann pipes,…

Joni Mitchell’s Blue (1971) is the fourth album she recorded and is regarded as one of the greatest albums ever made. The brutally honest and emotionally laced songs received all positive reviews. One of those music pieces is “A Case of You” and features “James Taylor on acoustic guitar, Russ Kunkel on drums, and Joni on Appalachian dulcimer” (Beviglia 1). Being one of her best-known songs, “A Case of You” have been covered by over two hundred music artists. There are, however, only rumors and…

I listened to two pieces of Irish music the first was a piece pertaining to Irish marching bagpipes. Since this is marching music there is a constant snare drum going on as well as some sort of horn players playing in the background. First of all, its hearing how well the players are playing in tune with each other is amazing and how unified their sound is. There are times when you distinctly know there is a multitude of players playing as it adds to the overall effect of the march as this style…

to have an outlet. The way the reader perceives the poem reflects on how well the writer can get their point across. Some people do not understand because of the “fiddle” most poets use to make the poem sound more in depth than it really is (Moore line 2). The “fiddle” she is referring to is the fraud of thought behind the poem (“fiddle”def. #4). The poem may have no real reason, other than the writer saw a tree and wanted to write about a tree. The reader also has to play a part in the process…

Hobbits tended more to play “pipes, flutes” and “fiddles”, or other simple instruments, while the Dwarves were partial to “the harp” (Hargrove 1). Dwarves were also known to use “little fiddles, flutes, clarinets, viols, and drums” (Hargrove1). The harp was considered to be a sign of royalty, to the dwarves, and Dwarven Kings would often possess one. Elves often played…

There are many things in the world that hold a significant value, such as music. Music allows people to relate to a song by studying the elements it possesses, which creates a certain feeling that corresponds with the song and mood of the listener, therefore, making the song have a significant value. Most songs that have a significant meaning are written on a personal level by the artist. For example, the song “Wide Open Spaces” was written by Susan gibson who used her own personal experience of…

home and provide food and warmth to the grasshopper. Unlike Aesop’s classic, “The Grasshopper and the Ants”, in Walt Disney’s version, the queen ant utters, “with ants, just those who work may stay, so take your fiddle…and play”. In response, the grasshopper begins to play a tune on his fiddle. Although the work differs from the ants, the grasshopper is working just as the queen declared. The tune does differs from the one played at the beginning of the film. In the beginning the grasshopper…