Violin

pick this delicate instrument, a weapon of my choice—the violin. Carefully, one removes the seals from the case it has been resting in—it made a soft clicking sound like the locks from a prisoner’s cage. The case opens slowly revealing what was inside of it. The instrument patiently waits for its master as it lays on its furry navy blue bed. Silence filled the room as each one stare at each other and talk with their amazed eyes. The violin was glistening with beauty; its body handcrafted by a…

Born in rural New South Wales, Kate Young began playing violin at the age of four. Despite growing up in Streaky Bay, a small and remote South Australian town 800km west of Adelaide, at the age of 14, she received a scholarship to study at the Sydney Conservatorium High School. Upon completion, she continued her musical studies at the Elder Conservatorium of Music in Adelaide where she studied under Keith Crellin OAM, graduating with honours in 2008. In the same year, she won first place in…

the blue tape that I still clung to them for months. Those thin strips of tape had been with me since my first violin in 5th grade, when my fingers were not even big enough to play on a full sized violin. That was when I actually was a beginner just learning how to play the notes. Every time I got a new violin, I insisted that my teacher add the tape. The first time I replaced my violin I was still considered a beginner and it was assumed that I would need the tape, so my teacher put it on…

The Butterfly Lovers Violin Concerto was written for western style orchestra and features a solo violin played using some Chinese techniques. This piece retains the Chinese flavor but however to some extent. The reason why I have chosen this question and this piece is because as a violinist, I have the interest in how the violin in The Butterfly Lovers Violin Concerto is a western instrument, but however it is still able to capture some of the Chinese style. In this essay, I will be comparing…

My gaze penetrated a wooden resonance box which was amplifying the sound waves. At the middle school orientation, that spur of the moment made me chose violin as an elective course. My new skill, I gradually developed to the perfection and demonstrated it at many in and outside school concert. As I believe, passion, practice, patience, and pleasure; these are the four factors played a crucial role to develop and to demonstrate my talent. "Finger, Bow, then Go, it is not possible to create…

The music that I have chosen is D major Violin Concerto No.1, Op.6, composed by Niccolò Paganini. To gain a more complete understanding of the composition, first we need to check the background information of the composer. Paganini was an Italian violinist, violist, guitarist, and composer. [iii] That explains why the composition mainly uses violin throughout the whole composition. It was also noted that was one of the most famous classical music composers on the romantic era. When I first…

in the first violins in m. 44. This melody contains a lower neighbor motif, moving from an A5 down a half-step to a G#5 back up a half-step to a A5 before descending in an arpeggio, then ascending up to D6, and then moving back down stepwise in a turning motif. The lower neighbor motif was first presented in the Primary area in mm. 1-2 in the cellos and basses (D-C#-D-A), and is expanded now in the transition. The flutes play the melody in m. 48, which is an echo of what the violins previously…

The woodwinds let out unpleasant screams, the basses coughed and scoffed at the woodwinds with short irritating shoves of the bow, and the violins sang with uncanny cries, which penetrated the audience's ears. The violins kept chasing each other resulting in more and more fingers flying around and scrunching up on their fiddles; the small boxes of wood blared out to the rest of the orchestra, causing chaos with notes and bows jumping…

Brahms’ Concert Review The concert I am reviewing is Johannes Brahms’ Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 77. Performed by the Berlin Philharmonic, conducted by Claudio Abbado. Recorded live at the Teatro Massimo in Palermo, Italy in 2002. Featuring soloist Gil Shaham. Johannes Brahms was born in Hamburg, Germany in 1833. His father taught him music as a young boy. At the age of 6, he started creating his own method of writing music. Brahms befriended many famous composers during…

is still a debate on whether the base comes from the violin family or shrimp family (some research shows even family ties guitar all the time. The only thing we are sure the tool is still under development in relation to the time it was used in the music. The history of the base begins about the first half of the 16th century, based on the violin family.However the term "base" is not often used until the end of the 18th century was called "violin" because of its roots to the family of…