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The Violin family of instruments was developed in Italy in the 17th Century. The modern violin family consists of the violin, viola and cello, along with the double bass. While the violin, viola and cello are true members of the ancestral violin family, the double bass's origins are generally believed to be of the viol family, due to its sloping shoulders, its tuning, and its sometimes flat back. Image File history File links Scroll_and_ear. ...
The term fiddle refers to a violin when used in folk music. ...
The violin is a bowed string instrument with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. ...
This article covers the anatomy of a violin and some of its accessories. ...
The violin player usually holds the instrument under the chin, supported by the left shoulder (but see below for variations of this posture). ...
Making violins Just a few tools There is a three-dimensional geometric underlying construction that explains the main properties and placement of the different parts and proportions. ...
An intricately carved 17th century (circa 1660) British Royal Family violin, on display in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. ...
// Jazz The earliest references to jazz performance using the violin as a solo instrument are documented during the first decades of the 20th century. ...
This is a list of notable violinists. ...
This list of fiddlers shows some crossover with the List of violinists since the instruments used are quite similar, if not identical (given that each violin or fiddle has its own individual character). ...
A musical instrument is a device constructed or modified with the purpose of making music. ...
(16th century - 17th century - 18th century - more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 17th century was that century which lasted from 1601-1700. ...
The violin is a bowed string instrument with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. ...
The viola (in French, alto; in German Bratsche) is a string instrument played with a bow. ...
The violoncello, almost always abbreviated to cello, or cello (the c is pronounced as the ch in cheese), is a bowed stringed instrument, the lowest-sounding member of the violin family. ...
Side and front views of a modern double bass with a French bow. ...
The violin is a bowed string instrument with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. ...
The viola (in French, alto; in German Bratsche) is a string instrument played with a bow. ...
The violoncello, almost always abbreviated to cello, or cello (the c is pronounced as the ch in cheese), is a bowed stringed instrument, the lowest-sounding member of the violin family. ...
Side and front views of a modern double bass with a French bow. ...
Various sizes of viol, from Michael Praetorius Syntagma musicum (1618) The viol (also called viola da gamba) is any one of a family of bowed, fretted stringed musical instruments developed in the 1400s and used primarily in the Renaissance and Baroque periods. ...
Instrument names in the ancestral violin family are all derived from the root viola, which may have come from the Medieval Latin word vitula (meaning "stringed instrument). A violin is a "little viola", a violone is a "big viola" or a "bass viola", and a violoncello (often abbreviated cello) is a "small violone" (or, literally, a "small big viola"). (The violone is not part of the modern violin family; its place is taken by the modern double bass or "bass viol".) Image File history File links Download high resolution version (700x1100, 31 KB) Summary inexpensive Chinese 4/4 violin ca. ...
The violin is a bowed string instrument with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. ...
Image File history File links Download high resolution version (700x1100, 45 KB) Summary Inexpensive Chinese 16. ...
The viola (in French, alto; in German Bratsche) is a string instrument played with a bow. ...
Image File history File links Download high resolution version (465x705, 138 KB) Cello, front and side view / Violoncello, Front- und Seitenansicht description: Cello, front and side view source: private photographer: Georg Feitscher date: 17 Mar 2005 other versions: Cello Uebersicht Teile. ...
The violoncello, almost always abbreviated to cello, or cello (the c is pronounced as the ch in cheese), is a bowed stringed instrument, the lowest-sounding member of the violin family. ...
Download high resolution version (1100x1500, 94 KB)Photo of my double bass, front and side. ...
Side and front views of a modern double bass with a French bow. ...
Medieval Latin refers to the Latin used in the Middle Ages, primarily as a medium of scholarly exchange and as the liturgical language of the medieval Roman Catholic Church. ...
The violone (literally large viol in Italian, -one being the suffix for large) is a musical instrument of the viol family. ...
The instruments of the ancestral violin family may be descended in part from the lira da braccio. Italianische lyra de bracio as illustrated by Michael Praetorius in his Syntagma Musicum The lira da braccio was a European bowed string instrument of the Renaissance. ...
Characteristics The playing ranges of the instruments in the modern violin family overlap each other, but the tone quality and physical size of each distinguishes them from one another. Both the violin and the viola are played under the chin, the viola being the larger of the two instruments, with a playing range reaching a perfect fifth below the violin's. The cello is played sitting down with the instrument between the knees, and its playing range reaches an octave below the viola's. (The double bass is played standing or sitting on a stool, with a range that typically reaches a minor sixth, an octave, or a ninth below the cello's). The perfect fifth or diapente is one of three musical intervals that span five diatonic scale degrees; the others being the diminished fifth, which is one semitone smaller, and the augmented fifth, which is one semitone larger. ...
In music, an octave (sometimes abbreviated 8ve or 8va) is the interval between one musical note and another with half or double the frequency. ...
A minor sixth is the smaller of two commonly occuring musical intervals that span six diatonic scale degrees. ...
In music or music theory a ninth is the note nine scale degrees from the root of chord and also the interval between the root and the ninth. ...
All string instruments share similar form, parts, construction, and function, and the viols bear a particularly close resemblance to the violin family. However, instruments in the ancestral violin family are set apart by similarities in shape, in tuning practice, and in history. They have four strings each, are tuned in fifths (the bass is tuned in fourths), are not fretted, and have four rounded bouts. A string instrument (or stringed instrument) is a musical instrument that produces sound by means of vibrating strings. ...
The strings of a harp A string is the vibrating element which is the source of vibration in string instruments, such as the guitar, harp, piano, and members of the violin family. ...
In music, tuning is the process of producing or preparing to produce a certain pitch in relation to another, usually at the unison but often at some other interval. ...
The neck of a guitar showing the first four frets. ...
 Violin, viola, and cello bow frogs (top to bottom) Image File history File links Download high resolution version (2197x1342, 120 KB) Summary scanned Just plain Bill 03:00, 26 January 2006 (UTC) Top to bottom: violin, viola, cello Licensing File links The following pages link to this file: Viola Violin family ...
Image File history File links Download high resolution version (2197x1342, 120 KB) Summary scanned Just plain Bill 03:00, 26 January 2006 (UTC) Top to bottom: violin, viola, cello Licensing File links The following pages link to this file: Viola Violin family ...
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Side and front views of a modern double bass with a French bow. ...
Uses The members of the ancestral violin family are the most used bowed string instruments in the world today. Although all share a place in classical music, they are also used (less often) in jazz, rock, and other types of popular music, where they are often amplified, or simply created to be used as electric instruments. The violin is also used extensively in fiddle music, country music, and folk music. (The double bass plays an indispensable part in both classical and jazz music forms). A cello bow In music, a bow is a device pulled across the strings of a string instrument in order to make them vibrate and emit sound. ...
Classical music is a broad, somewhat imprecise term, referring to music produced in, or rooted in the traditions of, European art, ecclesiastical and concert music, encompassing a broad period from roughly 1000 to the present day. ...
Jazz is a style of music which originated in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States at around the start of the 20th century. ...
It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Rock and roll. ...
Popular music is music belonging to any of a number of musical styles that are accessible to the general public and are disseminated by one or more of the mass media. ...
This electric violin, made by Leo Fender in the late 1950s, has a non-traditional design. ...
// Jazz The earliest references to jazz performance using the violin as a solo instrument are documented during the first decades of the 20th century. ...
This article includes a list of works cited but its sources remain unclear because it lacks in-text citations. ...
Folk music, in the original sense of the term, is music by and for the common people. ...
One of the most popular and standardized groupings in classical chamber music, the string quartet, is composed entirely of instruments from the ancestral violin family. This similarity in the manner of sound production allows string quartets to blend their tone colour and timbre more easily than less homogeneous groups. This is particularly notable in comparison to the standard wind quintet, which, although composed entirely of wind instruments, comprises four fundamentally different ways of producing musical pitch. Chamber music is a form of classical music, written for a small group of instruments which traditionally could be accommodated in a palace chamber. ...
The resident string quartet of the Library of Congress in 1963 A string quartet is a musical ensemble of four string instruments—usually two violins, a viola and cello—or a piece written to be performed by such a group. ...
In music, timbre, also timber (from Fr. ...
A wind quintet, also sometimes known as a woodwind quintet, is a group of five wind players (most commonly flute, oboe, clarinet, horn and bassoon). ...
A wind instrument consists of a tube containing a column of air which is set into vibration by the player blowing into (or over) a mouthpiece set into the end of the tube. ...
Pitch is the perceived fundamental frequency of a sound. ...
References - Hoffman, Miles (1997). The NPR Classical Music Companion. New York: Houghton Mifflin Company. ISBN 0-395-70742-0.
- (1990) The Complete Luthier's Library. A Useful International Critical Bibliography for the Maker and the Connoisseur of Stringed and Plucked Instruments. Bologna: Florenus Company. ISBN 88-85250-01-7.
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