String instrument

violinists and all string players to understand the instruments and techniques which are commonly used in performance today, it is just as important to know the origins of these items and concepts in order to fully gain mastery and understanding. While many musicians pay great attention to music history and theory from the Baroque Period onward, the early history of the violin and bowed instruments is sadly undervalued. Ancient String Instruments: String instruments have been a part of our culture for thousands of years. Based on iconographical evidence and recent excavations in the last century, the oldest known stringed instruments were harps and lyres in the Middle East. In early Egyptian culture, harps…

beginning of the 12th century, the guitar has been noted as one of the most popular Western musical, string instrument; it is used in a wide variety of musical genres worldwide. However, on the other hand, most people cannot easily recognize the Western guitar’s Eastern counterpart – the Gu Zheng. Originally found during the Warring States Period in Ancient China (475 to 221 BC), the Gu Zheng gradually became a prominent musical instrument within Asian culture. However, though Western culture…

handful of instruments that played a significant role in the development of music during the 20th century. The bass gained much of its momentum as the popularity of the New Orleans brass and jazz bands was spreading throughout the US, and it eventually took on such an essential role that it was forced to evolve. The new bass players were slowly transitioning the bass from accompaniment to a solo instrument. As it moved from the background to the foreground musicians began experimenting with new…

musical score. The combination of these high and low-pitched tones sound a bit dissonant to me and as a result, I feel as though there is something preposterous or corrupt about to happen and that this chord represents where it all begins. Next, there is a melody played by some of the string instruments, most notably the violins and some lower-ranged string instrument such as the cello. This melody starts off at a very low volume and gradually increases over the next couple of measures,…

tradition aspect of music such as instrument or some melody that it could been enjoyable but really felt like a bunch of noise put together. John…

Servco Toyota - 34th Annual Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar Festival Music is as much a part of Hawaiian culture as the outrigger canoe and the Luau. In fact, from the battlefield to the beaches where feasts have long been held, music has been used to motivate and celebrate. No luau would be complete without a wide variety of Hawaiian slack guitar music. In Hawaiian, the word is "ki-ho'alu", which loosely translates into, "loosen the key" or the loose string style of playing a stringed instrument such…

Higher temperatures are associated with higher amounts of thermal energy and thermal expansion. Thermal expansion is when an object expands or contracts due to its temperature. In essence, when the temperature of a guitar string increases, its molecules move farther apart, slightly increasing its length. When the temperature of the string decreases, its molecules move around less, so its length decreases. This expansion and contraction changes the tension on the guitar string, resulting in a…

Classroom rules were also talked about and how it makes classroom management smoother. Transitions and ways to manage a class during a game or activity were also a great part. Because he performed his all of the things he said with us and it truly made all of the activities go one after the other perfectly. He also should us pictures of his classroom and what sort of changes he had to make to get the most out of the class and the activities he plans. This session was more than just classroom…

“Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence” -Colin Powell. I will never forget when I was awarded one of the two “Most Outstanding Musician” awards when I was a 7th grader at Neil Armstrong Middle School. It was the second week of school when we first met the string orchestra teacher; no one gave her a schedule. Her curly ginger hair, piercings, and her tattoos made her look kind of “intimidating”, but she was a very fun and…

the sounds of the early morning: with birds, insects, and stillness. After floating for a couple minutes, the couple begins rowing the boat forward, and in the piece, you can hear the water rhythmically lapping against the side of the boat. This is symbolized by that at the second beat of 32, the violin comes in with a descending arpeggio-like rhythm. Then, as the music intensifies to measure 36, the violin begins playing the same descending pattern with sixteenth notes, which it then gives to…