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Encyclopedia > Carlo Farina

Carlo Farina (1600July , 1639) was an Italian composer and violinist of the Baroque era. // Events January January 1 - Scotland adopts January 1st as being New Years Day February February 17 - Giordano Bruno burned at the stake for heresy in Rome July July 2 - Battle of Nieuwpoort: Dutch forces under Maurice of Nassau defeat Spanish forces under Archduke Albert in a battle on the... July is the seventh month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of seven Gregorian months with the length of 31 days. ... Events January 14 - Connecticuts first constitution, the Fundamental Orders, is adopted. ... A composer is a person who writes music. ... A violinist is an instrumentalist who plays the violin. ... Baroque music describes an era and a set of styles of European classical music which were in widespread use between approximately 1600 to 1750 (see Dates of classical music eras for a discussion of the problems inherent in defining the beginning and end points). ...


Carlo Farina was born in Mantua, Italy and died in Vienna, Austria aged 39. Mantua (in Italian Mantova) is an important city in Lombardy, Italy and capital of the province with the same name. ... Vienna (German: Wien [viːn]; Slovenian: Dunaj, Hungarian: Bécs, Czech: Vídeň, Slovak: Viedeň, Romany Vidnya; Croatian and Serbian: Beč) is the capital of Austria, and also one of Austrias nine states (Land Wien). ...


Compositions

  • Capriccio Stravagante 1627
  • Sonata detta la Polaca (à 3)
  • Sonata detta la Capriola (à 3)
  • Sonata detta la Moretta (à 3)
  • Sonata detta la Franzosina (à 2)
  • Sonata detta la Farina (à 2)
  • Sonata detta la Greca (à 3)
  • Sonata detta la Cingara (à 3)
  • Sonata detta la Fiama (à 2)
  • Sonata detta la Semplisa (à 3)
  • Sonata detta la Desperata (à 2)

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Carlo Vitali advices : Twice baroque ! (1809 words)
Carlo Farina, another member of the Mantuan school, published his Capriccio Stravagante in 1627.
Farina achieves these and other virtuosic elements by devices such as glissando, tremolo and pizzicato, instructing the performer to play very close to the bridge or strike the strings with the bow.
Basing their observations solely upon an examination of published material, scholars had always argued that while the Italians led the world in the development of violin technique at the beginning of the seventeenth century, they were overtaken by the Germans around 1670.
Carlo Abarth / Alfa Romeo (3130 words)
The chassis was a task for Carlo Abarth and with the expectation of a series of 50 cars he used all his skills to produce a lightweight chassis for competition and the weight for the car was as low as 690 kg.
Carlo Abarth had made aquentinence with Pinin Farina during his work at Cisitalia and he was convinced that Pinin Farina could build cars with a lower air resistance coefficient with the help of the wind tunnel at Turin Technical Institute.
Carlo Abarth promised to help and he removed all the parts and made a new car with inspiration in design from the Scaglione designed Abarth 1400 from 1952 with the central driver light.
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