Violin

the exclusion of all else.” (Everett, xi). Being perhaps the most popular and frequently performed works of Vivaldi, The Four Seasons are a highlight in the history of program music. (Everett, xi) This work, taken from Op. 8, a collection of twelve violin concertos, furnishes much debate about its composition. (Sciannameo, 1) The earliest edition of Opus 8, Il cimento dell’ armonia e dell’ inventione, from which The Four Seasons is taken, was published in Amsterdam around the end of 1725.…

still-life artworks as a response to the world around them, preserving both material possessions and concepts in their works. Two display examples of this are Dutch Golden Age still life painter, Pieter Claesz (executed works include ‘Vanitas with Violin and Glass Ball’ and ‘Nature morte au crabe’), and British, eccentric, contemporary artist, Damien Hirst (creator of iconic works ‘The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living’ and ‘Chicken’). Although these artists and their…

Unlike some stars that have been bred by famous performing families, Benny started his performance career at age six with the violin (Fein 17). After flunking out of grade school and business school, he headed to vaudeville theater with his violin. A few years passed by, then Benny joined the Navy during World War I (Fein 31). It was mediocre violin performance during the war that introduced Benny to comedy. While he received boos from his fellow comrades, he decided to ad-lib his way…

morning while he walked around the Saratoga Street in search of employment in 1841, was approached by two mans named Merrill Brown and Abram Hamilton. Not knowing there true intentions and need of work, Solomon Northup agreed accompany them to play violin for them in order to get one dollar a day for services and three dollars…

to stay up since the violinist had just arrived. Partner: That camel must have been really traumatized by the birth of that colt because she still wanted nothing to do with the colt Me: I know right, but she calmed down a little after they but the violin on her hump I think they prayed over it before they but it on her. Partner: They could have you never know. Me: When the ceremony started I never though it would work; however, once they started playing the music it was just so lovely. When they…

be another example of someone who kept their humanity until their dying breath. In Gleiwitz all that can be heard in the crowded barracks of dying men is Juliek playing Beethoven on his violin. He gives everything that is left in him to play the piece for those around him; he is found dead in the morning, the violin crushed. (95). The loss of humanity does not happen to everyone, it can be avoided with a strong set of moral…

powerful than the rest that were performed. When it came to the rhythm and tempo of the song and it reminded me a bit of Igor Stravinsky’s, The Rite of Spring, Part 1, excerpts. In Quartettsatz, there are moments of tremolo by the violins that are similar to the tempo of the violins in the Dance of the Youths and Maidens in The Rite of Spring. My favorite moments of the piece were when the cellist’s used pizzicato in the background illustrating a feeling of consonance, then the sudden hit of…

For example, I really enjoy how Grainer incorporated violins and the Doctor’s Sonic Screwdriver throughout the song. Another thing that I really like about the “Doctor Who Theme Song” is when they play it. I really like how they played the song while the Tardis is floating through time and space in the beginning…

intersection between Oxford St. and James St, in a gloomy, cramped alley surrounded by trash cans lived young Michael Ashburn. His life had not been easy, since his mother had died from cancer. Therefore, he spent his days in the streets playing his old violin, the only thing left from his moth-er. He was said to be a genius, with a God-given talent, despite he could only get a few pounds each day. But that night, when Michael had finished playing at an Irish pub, a fat, pompous man approached…

The type of explanation that the conductor is giving for Jordan's artistic skills is the descriptive explanation. What is wrong with his statement is that unless Jordan received a split brain surgery, he's brain is not divided meaning that both of his brain hemispheres are working and there's not a dominant side. A split brain procedure is "a condition resulting from surgery that isolates the brain’s two hemispheres by cutting the fibers (mainly those of the corpus callosum) connecting them"…