Violin

For as long as I could remember, I’ve wanted to be in the medical field. As an aspiring oral surgeon, an avid lover of serving the community, and a fun loving girl always searching for the next adventure, I am extremely grateful for the academic, extracurricular, and community programs I have been involved in throughout my lifetime. When we moved to Texas, one of the first things they told us about was the Northwest Independent School District pre-professional academies. My heart skipped a…

Classical music is a genre of music that is in brutal competition for audience dollars, therefore seeks the classical musicians that are eager to reinvent the classical concert experience. The Knights is an orchestra dedicated to transforming traditional classical music into the ultimate concert experience by portraying their passion for musical discovery, engaging their audience, and defying musical boundaries. Engaging listeners and defying boundaries with programs that showcase the player’s…

Charles Ives is one of the famous American Modernist composers. He was born in 1874 and he composed many compositions until he died in 1954. He was born in Connecticut as a son of Army bandmaster. He began to compose at 12 and he became an Organist at 14. Although he was not famous during his lifetime, he is very well-known as his unique compositional styles. His compositional style combines American popular and church music tradition. The Church music traditions of his youth with European and…

Throughout this Music History course we studied a wide variety of music ranging from 12th century Gregorian chant all the way to modern day pop music. In addition to the structure of each piece we studied, we also examined the historical context surrounding each piece in comparison to other time periods. For instance, when we studied the classical period we discussed the similarities and differences between the classical period and the Baroque era. In order to apply my understanding of the…

out later that the social service program his wife was on filed for child support. Bambi feels that the system has failed him. Arthur feels frustrated everyday he has to teach others to play Violin so he can earn, but cannot play himself. He feels like a broken man as his life revolved arround playing the Violin. The African american cast in broken Strings feels unfamiliar compared to african americans that are portrayed in today's movies. even though there was much more poverty and struggle in…

On Sunday October 11, 2015, I attended the Regina Musical Club’s, Trio concertante at the University of Regina. The concert was performed by 3 musicians, Nancy Dahn who played the violin, Simon Fryer who played the cello, and Tim Steeves who played the piano. The concert was made up of three pieces. The first one was Beethoven’s Piano trio in G major Op.1 No.2 which was published in 1795. The second was Fryderyk’s Chopin’s, Chopin in G minor Op.8 which was written and published in 1829. And…

The significant difference within the groups for Indian classical instrument, Indo jazz and Violin were measured using Friedman test which is a non-parametric alternative to the one-way ANOVA with repeated measures and Wilcoxon signed-rank Post Hoc test was performed to find the statistically significant difference between two related groups. The…

Nathaniel is a 58 year-old single African American homeless man who suffers from a mental illness that lives in the city of Los Angeles. Nathaniel began experiencing delusions, hallucination, and hearing voices when he was a young boy. When Nathanial was approximetly13 years old he had his first hallucination, in which he saw a car that was on fire and that it was driving away. Nathanial’s mental illness has progressed as he has become older. Nathaniel’s first mental breakdown occured while he…

families, the string family, the woodwind family, the brass family, and the percussion family. The strings are the largest family of instruments in the orchestra. It has four major instruments the violin, which is the smallest, viola, cello, and the biggest, the double bass. The smaller instruments, the violin and viola, make a higher-pitched sound, and the larger cello and double bass make low rich sounds. They are all shaped very similar to one another, with curvy wooden bodies and wooden…

One of my favorite instruments is the cello. The cello is known as the bass instrument of the violin family. In respects to solo work, the cello is very important in the works of an orchestra. Today, the cello is adored and played by many. One of the most acclaimed cellist is a Yo Yo Ma. He is a songwriter of Chinese decent known for playing the grand classics. Yo Yo Ma is not only an artist of music, but diversifies one’s understanding of what music was like in the past. One example is how he…