Other uses pp semi small yes Refimprove date April 2010 Infobox Instrument name Violin names Fiddle, German ... Violino image Violin VL100.jpg image capt A standard modern violin shown from the front and the side ... by a bow music bow developed Early 16th century range Image Range violin.png 130px center related Violin ... Violin makers Luthiers articles Image Scroll and ear.jpg center This article is part of the Fiddle and Violin series. Basic physics of the violin List of fiddlers Fiddlers History of the violin Category Luthiers Luthiers Musical styles violin Musical styles Violin making and maintenance Making and maintenance Playing the violinViolin construction and mechanics Violin construction Violin family Violin family of instruments List of violinists Violinists The violin is a string instrument , usually ... member of the violin family of string instruments, which includes the viola and cello . The violin is sometimes informally called a fiddle , regardless of the type of music played on it. The word violin ... Online Etymology Dictionary title Etymology of fiddle accessdate 2010 12 03 ref The violin, while ... , or simply a violin maker. The parts of a violin are usually made from different types of wood ... strung with Catgut gut , nylon or other synthetic, or steel strings. Someone who plays the violin ... , by plucking the strings with either hand , or by a Playing the violin variety of other techniques . The violin is played by musicians in a wide variety of musical genres, including Baroque music , Western classical music classical , jazz , folk music , and rock and roll . The violin has come to be played in many non western music cultures all over the world. History Main History of the violin Image Batchelder violin.jpg thumb 125px left Batchelder violin USA The earliest stringed instruments ... lyra in the Byzantine Empire and the esraj in India . The violin in its present form emerged in early ... to central Asia through the trade routes of the silk road . The modern European violin evolved from ... more details
Infobox film name The Violin image image size caption director Francisco Vargas director Francisco Vargas producer ngeles Castro br Hugo Rodr guez writer Francisco Vargas director Francisco Vargas starring ngel Tavira music cinematography Mart n Boege editing Ricardo Garfias distributor released 11 March 2005 runtime 98 minutes country Film Mexico language Spanish budget The Violin lang es El viol n is a 2005 in film 2005 cinema of Mexico Mexican drama film directed by Francisco Vargas director Francisco Vargas . It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival . ref name festival cannes.com cite web url http www.festival cannes.com en archives ficheFilm id 4320980 year 2006.html title Festival de Cannes The Violin accessdate 2009 12 14 work festival cannes.com ref Cast ngel Tavira Don Plutarco Gerardo Taracena Genaro Dagoberto Gama Capit n Mario Garibaldi Lucio Ferm n Mart nez Teniente Silverio Palacios Comandante Cayetano Octavio Castro Zacar as Mercedes Hern ndez Jacinta Gerardo Ju rez Pedro ngeles Cruz Jefa Guerrilera 1 Norma Pablo Jefa Guerrilllera 2 Ariel Galvan Joaqu n Amorita Rasgado Prostitutas Mar a Elena Olivares Do a Lupe Esteban Castellanos Manuel References reflist External links imdb title id 0451966 title The Violin CinemaofMexico DEFAULTSORT Violin, The Category 2005 films Category Mexican films Category Spanish language films Category 2000s drama films Category Black and white films Mexico film stub es El viol n fr Le Violon no Fiolinen fi Viulu elokuva ... more details
TOCright A violin is a bowed string instrument with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. Violin may also refer to Animals Violin beetle , species of ground beetles Entertainment Violin novel , novel by Anne Rice Nude with Violin , 1950s play by Noel Coward Rothschild s Violin , opera by Veniamin Fleishman The Red Violin , 1998 film by Fran ois Girard The Steamroller and the Violin , 1960 short film by Andrei Tarkovsky The Violin , a 2005 Mexican film Locations Pulau Biola , island off the coast of Singapore that is also known as Violin Island Mathematics Violin plot , box plot that illustrates probability density function Medicine http www.violinet.org VIOLIN , Vaccine Investigation and Online Information Network Music Instruments Violin family , family of string based instruments developed in sixteenth century Italy Violin octet , family of string based instruments developed in twentieth century United States of America Bass violin , Baritone violin , violin variant either one octave below convention or the third largest member of the violin octet family Baroque violin , violin whose design is based in the baroque period Electric violin , electrical variant of the standard violin Five string violin , five string variant of the violin Kit violin , small violin designed to fit in a pocket Nail violin , instrument categorised as a friction idiophone Stroh violin , violin that uses metal resonators or metal horns to amplify sounds Tenor violin , instrument with a range between a cello and a viola Albums and songs Violin album , album by violinst Vanessa Mae The Violin Player , album by violinist Vanessa Mae Sounding the New Violin , album of collected twentieth century violin works Who Touched My Violin String , album by Zhou Bichang 1000 no Violin , single by The Blue Hearts Love Is Like a Violin , single by T r na n g Violin , a children s song by alternative rock group They Might Be Giants on their album No album No Other Violin authentication , process of determining ... more details
upright 1.4 David Oistrakh playing a violin concerto A violin concerto is a concerto for solo violin ..., up through the present day. Many major composers have contributed to the violin concerto repertoire ... Vivaldi Vivaldi . Traditionally a three movement work, the violin concerto has been structured ... between the second and third . In some violin concertos, especially from the Baroque and modern eras, the violin or group of violins is accompanied by a chamber music chamber ensemble rather than ..., cello, and figured bass continuo , and Allan Pettersson s first concerto, for violin and string quartet. Selected list of violin concertos The following concertos are presently found near the center of the mainstream Western repertoire. For a more comprehensive list of violin concertos, see List of compositions for violin and orchestra . col begin col 2 John Adams composer John Adams Violin Concerto Adams Violin Concerto 1993 The Dharma at Big Sur 2003 Johann Sebastian Bach Violin Concerto in A minor Bach Violin Concerto in A minor, BWV 1041 1717 1723 Violin Concerto in E major Bach Violin Concerto in E major, BWV 1042 1717 1723 Double Violin Concerto Bach Double Violin Concerto in D minor, BWV 1043 1723 Violin Concerto in D minor, BWV 1052 a reconstruction of a lost work Violin Concerto for 3 violins in D major, BWV 1064 a reconstruction of a lost work Violin Concerto in G minor, BWV 1056 a reconstruction of a lost work Samuel Barber Violin Concerto Barber Violin Concerto, Op. 14 1939 B la Bart k Violin Concerto No. 1 Bart k Violin Concerto No. 1 1908 Violin Concerto No. 2 Bart k Violin Concerto No. 2 1938 Ludwig van Beethoven Violin Concerto Beethoven Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 61 1806 Alban Berg Violin Concerto Berg Violin Concerto To the memory of an angel 1935 Johannes Brahms Violin Concerto Brahms Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 77 1878 Max Bruch Violin Concerto No. 1 Bruch Violin Concerto No. 1 in G minor, Op. 26 1867 Anton n Dvo k Violin Concerto Dvo k Violin ... more details
A Baritone violin is a member of the violin family and has two specific meanings a violin tuned an octave below conventional violin tuning G D A E . This is commonly accomplished by stringing a standard violin with heavy gauge strings, sometimes specially manufactured for this purpose. Oversize instruments with the same range and tuning also exist and are known as tenor violin s. http www.darolanger.com bariton.html the third largest member of the violin octet family of instruments, with the same tuning as a cello C G D A but larger in size. http www.newviolinfamily.org The most commonly available strings for converting a standard violin to the baritone range are manufactured by Thomastik under the brand Octavgeige. Performers on the baritone violin commonly use amplification to overcome the limited projection and sonority inherent with a lower range on a relatively small bodied instrument. In modern playing, it is more common to find the baritone violin in a jazz, newgrass, or experimental ensemble than in a classical setting. Some well known performers on the baritone violin include Jean Luc Ponty , Svend Asmussen , and Darol Anger . References cite web first Darol last Anger url http www.darolanger.com bariton.html title Another Voice The Baritone Violin accessdate 2006 05 18 cite web url http www.newviolinfamily.org title The New Violin Family Association accessdate 2006 05 18 string instrument stub Category Violins ... more details
File Violon sourd.JPG thumb 300px right A mute violin, built by P. Grulli at the end of the 19th Century, in the collection of the Museo Nazionale degli Strumenti Musicali in Rome The mute violin is a violin without or with a very shallow sound box. The instrument has a quiet, lean sound. The mute violin can be used as an exercise instrument in situations where the sound of a violin is experienced as annoying by neighbouring people. Mute violins are known to exist since the Eighteenth Century, but their use never became widespread. Leopold Mozart made mention of the instrument in his Versuch einer gr ndlichen Violinschule 1756 . Stroh violin A related instrument is the Stroh violin , a combination of a mute violin and a metal Horn acoustic horn . In contrast to the mute violin, this instrument sounds rather loud. It was used instead of the violin in the early days of phonograph ic recording. Nowadays, the instrument is still used by a few Pop music pop musicians and in Romania Romanian folk music . Electric versions In the late Twentieth Century intermediate forms between the mute violin and the electric violin , mute violins provided with electronics , were introduced on the market. An example is Yamaha Corporation s silent violin , which can be connected to a pair of headphones , an amplifier or recording equipment. The United States American performance art ist Laurie Anderson often plays violins like these. An application The The Netherlands Dutch composer Willem Pijper wanted the part of the first violin in his first string quartet of 1914 to be played by a mute violin. In a recording of his five string quartets by the Sch nberg Quartet Olympia OCD 457, 1994 the effect of the mute violin was imitated by an extra heavy sordino on an ordinary violin. Literature Harrison Ryker, text in the booklet accompanying the cd Five String Quartets , Olympia OCD 457. External links ... violin Category Violins de Stumme Violine it Violino muto nl Stomme viool ... more details
Infobox Instrument name Stroh violin or Horn violin names image Violon de jazz a pavillon.JPG classification Bowed string instrument range related violin A Stroh violin , Stro h viol , violinophone , or horn violin is a violin that amplifies its sound through a metal resonator and metal horn acoustic horn s rather than a wooden sound box as on a standard violin. The instrument is named after its German designer, Johannes Matthias Augustus Stroh , who patented it in 1899. The Stroh violin is also ... s. In the present day, many types of horn violin exist, especially in the Balkans. Description and background Stroh violins are much louder than a standard wooden violin, and its directional projection ... violin. On early records the Stroh violin can be recognized by its characteristically thin whining tone. The Stroh violin was an expensive instrument in 1911 it was offered by the London dealers ... when a reasonable factory violin could be had for two guineas. It was listed as being especially ... thumb right Man playing a Stroh violin in a New Orleans Mardi Gras parade Current usage ... the Stroh violin for its distinctive sound. Pinky Weitzman plays the Stroh violin for various New York ... ensemble for Stephin Merritt s My Life as a Fairy Tale . The Stroh violin is an instrument used ... it in his live performances, and was called violin corneta cornet violin by the locals. Romanian horn violin An interesting variant on the Stroh violin is the Romania n horn violin that was built through the 20th century. It has the same length as the Stroh violin, but its horn is narrower and yields ... into sound waves, which are amplified by the horn or beaker. The horn violin is harder to play than a normal violin because the reaction of the bow on the strings is less flexible and the instrument ... after a while. Instruments like the Stroh violin and other types of horn violin remain a curiosity they are quite rare in the orchestra. gallery image Horn violin also called trumpet violin with its ... more details
Infobox Instrument name Violin octet names image classification Bowed string instrument s range related Cello Double bass Viola Violin The violin octet is a family of stringed instruments developed in the 20th century primarily under the direction of the American luthier Carleen Hutchins . Each instrument is based directly on the traditional violin and shares its acoustical properties, with the goal of a richer and more homogeneous sound. Unlike the standard modern stringed instruments, the main resonance of the body of the violin octet instrument is at a pitch near the two middle open strings ... which play and record on the instruments of the violin octet. The Hutchins Consort based in San ... York uses a set of instruments made by Robert Spear. The instruments of the violin octet are class ... Tuning width 40 Notes Treble violin G4 D5 A5 E6, tuned an octave above the violin Soprano violin C4 G4 D5 A5, tuned a perfect fourth fourth above the violin About the size of a three quarter violin Mezzo violin G3 D4 A4 E5, tuned the unison same as the violin The body is an inch longer than a conventional violin but the strings are the same length Alto Violin Vertical viola C3 G3 D4 A4, tuned ... Tenor violin Tenor Violin G2 D3 A3 E4, tuned an octave below a standard violin The body is similar to a half size cello but with thinner ribs and a longer neck Baritone violin Baritone Violin C2 G2 D3 A3, tuned the unison same as a cello Larger than a conventional cello Small Bass Violin A1 D2 G2 ... below a cello. sup 1 sup Contrabass violin E1 A1 D2 G2, tuned the unison same as a double bass or C1 ... find the required extra shifting impracticable. The New Violin Family Association lists tunings ... also Violin family References http www.usd.edu smm Archives NewViolinFamily NewViolinFamily.html ... Hutchins Consort , a performing group that uses the violin octet Lipsett, Fred 2006 . http launch.groups.yahoo.com group viola message 42682 Yahoo Groups Viola list message 42682 Alto Violin Retrieved ... more details
Image Violin plot.gif thumb right 320px Example of a Violin plot Violin plots are a method of plotting numeric data. A violin plot is a combination of a box plot and a kernel density estimation kernel density plot . Specifically, it starts with a box plot. It then adds a rotated kernel density plot to each side of the box plot. ref http www.itl.nist.gov div898 software dataplot refman1 auxillar violplot.htm VIOLIN PLOT . www.itl.nist.gov. Retrieved 14 October 2008. ref . The violin plot is similar to box plot s, except that they also show the Probability density function probability density of the data at different values in the simplest case this could be a histogram . Typically violin plots will include a marker for the median of the data and a box indicating the interquartile range, as in standard box plots. Overlaid on this box plot is a kernel density estimation . Violin plots are available as extensions to a number of software packages, including R through the vioplot and lattice libraries, and Stata through the vioplot add in. ref Hintze, Jerry L., and Ray D. Nelson. 1998. Violin Plots A Box Plot Density Trace Synergism. The American Statistician 52 2 181 84. http www.questia.com googleScholar.qst jsessionid MW0BkkT1ZQx40ZzXpxjXywrsZJqBhnbPfMhQwgfhN36kJ0pkm4sh 1146305003 504491563?docId 5001349577 ref References reflist External links Commonscat Violin plots http ideas.repec.org c boc bocode s456902.html Vioplot add in for Stata http addictedtor.free.fr graphiques RGraphGallery.php?graph 43 Example of violin plots in R http pyinsci.blogspot.com 2009 09 violin plot with matplotlib.html violin plots in Python with Matplotlib NIST PD url http www.itl.nist.gov div898 software dataplot refman1 auxillar violplot.htm article Dataplot reference manual Violin plot Category Statistical charts and diagrams ... more details
Violin album Black Violin 2008 , Di Versatile, Inc Mixtapes BV Mixtape Series Unleashed II 2009 BV ... black violin Black Violin Profile at Rhapsody online music service Rhapsody http www.myspace.com dknex Black Violin Profile at Myspace Category American hip hop groups Category Hip hop violinists ... more details
A tenor violin is an instrument with a range between those of the cello and the viola . An earlier development of the evolution of the violin family of instruments, the instrument is not standard in the modern symphony orchestra . Its tuning, typically G4 D5 A5 E6 an octave below the traditional violin, places the range between the cello and viola and thus is sometimes confused with the modern baritone violin which has the same tuning on the standard violin body. As a formal development, the 17th century tenor violin existed as an instrument with a body larger than a viola but with a short neck. In earlier designs, the tenor was played upright in the musician s lap. Improvements in string technology in the 18th century led to greater focus of sound coming from the viola and cello ranges leading to a diminished role for tenor violins and Luthier violin makers constructed fewer of these instruments. It is known that Antonio Stradivari constructed two different models of tenor violin as well as tenor variations of violas. Versions of the tenor violin are also called violotta s. A more recent version is called Viola Profonda . Extant Tenor Violins Andrea Amati http www.usd.edu smm Violas Amati3370 3370AmatiViola.html Viola originally of tenor dimensions , 1560 References cite journal last Kory first Agnes authorlink coauthors year 1994 month title A Wider Role for the Tenor Violin? journal The Galpin Society Journal volume Vol. 47 issue Mar., 1994 pages pp. 123 153 id url http jstor.org stable 842665 accessdate quote doi 10.2307 842665 Category Violins Category Bowed instruments string instrument stub ... more details
Unreferenced date December 2009 Infobox Album See Wikipedia WikiProject Albums Name Violin Type Album Artist Vanessa Mae Cover Vanexa.jpg Released May 1991 Recorded October 1990 Genre European classical music Classical Length 64 51 Label ??? Producer ??? Reviews Last album This album Violin br 1991 Next album Kids Classics br 1991 Violin was the first album released by violinst Vanessa Mae . It was recorded in October 1990, near her 12th birthday, and released shortly afterwards in March 1991. Vanessa Mae contributed her royalties from the album to the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children . For the recording, she performed with the Mozart Players as conducted by Anthony Inglis . Track listing Sarasate 1. Carmen Fantasy 13 35 Kabalevksy Violin Concerto 2. Allegro 4 24 3. Andante 5 01 4. Vivace Giocoso 5 51 Mozart Adelaide Concerto 5. Allegro 7 21 6. Adagio 7 11 7. Allegro 4 22 Wieniawski 8. Faust Fantasy 16 20 Vanessa Mae Classical album stub DEFAULTSORT Violin Album Category 1991 albums Category Vanessa Mae albums ru Violin ... more details
The Alexander violin is a string instrument designed by Sylvanus J. Talbott in the late 19th century in the United States . It is typically made with wood and various other materials. ref cite web url http www.metmuseum.org works of art collection database musical instruments sylvanus j talbott objectview.aspx?page 1&sort 0&sortdir asc&keyword &fp 1&dd1 18&dd2 0&vw 1&collID 18&oID 180015409&vT 1 title Alexander Violin publisher The Metropolitan Museum of Art accessdate 21 May 2009 ref See also Violin References reflist String instrument stub Orphan date June 2009 Category Violins ... more details
Violin Phase , written by minimalism minimalist composer Steve Reich in October 1967, is an example of his phasing technique previously used in Piano Phase in which the music itself is created not by the instruments but by interactions of temporal variations on an original melody . Music of this kind is generally referred to as process music . In Violin Phase , two violins are recorded and played back, together at first. They are then made to go slowly out of sync by adding silence to one of the tapes. A new melody is formed by the interaction of the two out of sync instruments and is then accented by a third violin. This process is repeated with variations throughout the rest of the piece. Reich also arranged the piece for electric guitar and tape or 4 electric guitars . In this form the work was recorded as Electric Guitar Phase by Dominic Frasca . Steve Reich classical composition stub Category Minimalistic compositions Category Compositions by Steve Reich Category 1967 compositions Category Process music pieces fr Violin Phase ... more details
Virtuoso Violin is the first commercially available violin playing machine, invented by Fred Paroutaud for QRS QRS Music Technologies , the same company that produced the first MIDI compatible player piano . It was first unveiled February 13, 1998 ref name press Cite news title Player Violin Introduced publisher Entertainment Wire date February 13, 1998 ref . Mechanics The Virtuoso uses an electromagnet instead of fingering the strings. The electromagnet s position changes the behavior of the vibrating string to attain the desired pitch ref name qrs Cite web url http www.qrsmusic.com gulbransen compare.asp publisher QRSMusic.com title How the Virtuoso Violin compares to a real violin accessdate September 21, 2009 ref . Compatibility The Virtuoso is designed to play a real violin, although its setup requires the strings to be restrung and the bridge to be removed and replaced with a mechanical bridge which controls the string oscillation and bow movement ref name qrs . The Virtuoso Violin is capable of playing standard MIDI files ref name qrs . Reception The Virtuoso Violin was debuted at the Frankfurt Music Trade Show , and guests were both excited about the new invention and confused as to how it worked ref name frankfurt Cite web url http www.playerviolin.com photos.htm title The Virtuoso Violin photo gallery publisher PlayerViolin.com accessdate September 21, 2009 ref . The novelty of the digital to analog player violin has been a huge hit, and the Virtuoso Violin has been ... of the violin was originally estimated at under 10,000 just before its release ref name press . In 2003 ... Bottle Organ and Virtuoso Violin publisher QRSMusic.com accessdate September 21, 2009 ref . Violinist .... The sound projected by the Virtuoso Violin lacks the same quality found in a human violinist s playing ..., 2009 title Virtuoso Violin work Life in general publisher Violinist.com ref . External links http www.qrsmusic.com ... http www.playerviolin.com about index.htm Listen to the Virtuoso Violin References Reflist ... more details
The Violin family of musical instrument s was developed in Italy in the sixteenth century. ref Witten 1982 ref The standard modern violin family consists of the violin , viola , cello , and double bass ref Hoffman 1997 ref . Instrument names in the violin family are all derived from the root viola , which .... ref A violin is a little viola , a violone is a big viola or a bass violin , and a violoncello often ... of the modern violin family its place is taken by the modern double bass, an instrument with a mix of violin and viol characteristics. The instruments of the violin family may be descended in part from ... . style vertical align bottom Image Violin VL100.jpg 68px style vertical align bottom Image Bratsche.jpg ... Image AGK bass1 full.jpg 220px Violin Viola Cello Cello violoncello Double bass Double bass Contrabass Characteristics Image Three bow frogs.jpg thumb right Violin, viola, and cello bow frogs top to bottom The playing ranges of the instruments in the 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 ... a perfect fifth below the violin s. The cello is played sitting down with the instrument between ... below the cello s. While the cello which developed from the bass violin , along with the viola and violin are indisputable members of the ancestral violin, or viola da braccio family, the double ... of the double bass, which includes a sound post and a bass bar like other violin family instruments ... been used as the lowest member of the violin family. All string instrument s share similar form, parts, construction, and function, and the viol s bear a particularly close resemblance to the violin family. However, instruments in the violin family are set apart from viols by similarities in shape, in tuning practice, and in history. Violin family instruments have four strings music strings each ... Uses The instruments of the violin family are the most used Bow music bowed string instruments in the world ... more details
Infobox Single Name 1000 no Violin Cover Cover size Artist The Blue Hearts Album Stick Out ref name bhsuper http www.bluehearts.com album6.html Stick Out . bluehearts.com. Accessed February 22, 2008. ref A side 1000 no Violin B side Ore wa Ore no Shi o Shinitai br 1001 no Violin Released February 25, 1993 Format Recorded Avaco Creative Studio Genre Rock music Rock Length 13 minute m 08 second s Label East West Japan Writer Masatoshi Mashima Producer The Blue Hearts Last single Tabibito br 1993 This single 1000 no Violin br 1993 Next single Party The Blue Hearts song Party br 1993 nihongo 1000 no Violin 1000 Sen no Baiorin 1000 Violins is a song by The Blue Hearts , released as the band s fifteenth single. It reached 47 on the Oricon charts in 1993 . It was part of the band s sixth album, Stick Out . The music and lyrics were written by Masatoshi Mashima . Details Ore wa Ore no Shi o Shinitai I Want to Die My Death was also written by Mashima, who also performed the vocals on this track. This B side version is slightly different from the version recorded on Stick Out . 1001 no Violin is an orchestral version of 1000 no Violin and was arranged by Asuka Kaneko Kaneko Asuka . References Reflist The Blue Hearts DEFAULTSORT 1000 No Violin Category The Blue Hearts songs Category 1993 singles ja 1000 1990s pop song stub ... more details
Other uses Kit disambiguation Infobox Instrument name Kit violin names image Pochette.jpg classification Bowed string instrument range related Violin The kit violin , or kit Tanzmeistergeige in German , is a string instrument stringed musical instrument . It is essentially a very small violin , designed to fit in a pocket &mdash hence its other common name, the pochette . It was used by dance masters in royal courts and other places of nobility, as well as by street musicians up until around the 18th century. Occasionally, the rebec was used in the same way. Several are called for as violini piccoli alla francese small French violins in Monteverdi s 1607 Orfeo . ref The Ultimate Encyclopaedia of Musical Instruments, ISBN 1 85868 185 5, p85 ref History The word kit likely arose from an abbreviation of the word pocket to cket and subsequently kit Citation needed date August 2009 alternatively, it may be a corruption of cittern Gr. GreekFont . ref Cite EB1911 wstitle Kit ref Trichet is said to have described the leather carrying case of the kit as a poche , hence, The Pocket Violin . Similarly, Mersenne wrote that it was common practice among the kit violin s players such as traveling minstrels or dance teachers to carry the violin in a pocket. The term kit is believed to first have been used in the first quarter of the 16th century, in England where it was mentioned in Interlude of the Four Elements , c. 1517. The instrument s body is very small, but its fingerboard is made long relative to the instrument s overall size in order to preserve as much of the instrument s melodic range as possible. Many violinists in the eighteenth century used kits because of their portability ... be used in situations where a full sized violin was too large to carry, or too expensive to own ... fiddle or violin with a nearly full sized finger board, and a violin body that is the same shape ... violin and other violins File Violin Pochette.jpg thumb left 285px Kit violin DEFAULTSORT Kit Violin ... more details
Image Bass violin Praetorius.jpg thumb right A woodcut of an early bass violin Bas Geig de bracio from ... strings. Bass violin is the generic modern term used to denote various 16th and 17th century forms of Bass sound bass instruments of the violin family violin i.e. viola da braccio family. They were ... to be in consort with the violin and viola, the bass violin was a member of the violin, or Violin family viola da braccio family . The name bass violin is also sometimes used for the double bass . Occasionally historians have used the term bass violin to refer other various instruments of the violin family which were larger than the alto violin or viola , such as the tenor violin . This use can be synonymous with harmony violin. After the 1950s, the term bass violin may refer to a bass instrument of the violin octet . History and development Image Violone PeterLely1649DutEng.png thumb ... violin shape of a bass violin This is generally accepted as a violone i.e. viola da gamba viol that is larger than the bass , not an instrument of the violin family it s bowed underhand The bass violin developed in Italy in the first half of the sixteenth century. The first builder was possibly ... for the bass violin basso da brazzo was Claudio Monteverdi Monteverdi in Orfeo 1607 ref Jesselson ... is played today, as opposed to the violin, which is held under the chin . The viola da gamba was also ... on many characteristics of the pre cursors to the violin, such as separate tail pieces, and arched bridges ... Musical suggest that the bass violin had alternate playing positions, these were short lived and the more ... that was almost certainly adopted by the Italian violin makers from the early Spanish viols was the C ... matched, in appearance, tuning, and number of strings, to the new violin. Judging by artistic representations ..., and the form of the bass violin had crystallized, theorists and composers began to refer to the new instrument as the basso da viola da braccio , or the first true bass violin. Innovations in the design ... more details
Infobox Film name The Violin Maker image image size caption director Lon Chaney, Sr. producer writer Milton Moore narrator starring Lon Chaney, Sr. br Gretchen Lederer music cinematography editing distributor Universal Studios Universal Pictures released 9 July 1915 runtime country Film US language Silent film Silent br English language English intertitles budget preceded by followed by The Violin Maker is a 1915 in film 1915 silent film silent drama film directed by and featuring Lon Chaney, Sr. The film is now considered to be lost film lost . ref name silentera cite web url http www.silentera.com PSFL data V ViolinMaker1915.html title Silent Era The Violin Maker accessdate 2008 06 23 work silentera ref Cast Lon Chaney, Sr. Pedro Gretchen Lederer Marguerita William Quinn actor William Quinn Maurice Puello References reflist External links imdb title id 0006224 title The Violin Maker DEFAULTSORT Violin Maker, The Category 1915 films Category American films Category Silent films Category Short films Category Black and white films Category 1910s drama films Category Lost films Category Films directed by Lon Chaney, Sr. Category Universal Pictures films silent drama film stub ... more details
Infobox film name The Red Violin image redviolin.jpg producer Niv Fichman director Fran ois Girard writer ... 10,019,109 The Red Violin lang fr Le Violon rouge , lang de Die Rote Violine , lang it Il Violino Rosso ... the story of a mysterious violin and its many owners. The film was an international co production ... of a perfect violin known as the Red Violin for its rich red colour. At the film s beginning, the violin is being auction ed in Canada . As the bidding starts, the violin s history is revealed, showing that the violin has been in existence for over 300 years, having been made in 1681. Its history ... with no further cutaways to the other four stories. To its owners, the violin causes anger, betrayal ... of the movie s signature violin solo by composer John Corigliano is played at least once in the period .... Throughout the movie, the solos are played by noted violin ist Joshua Bell . The movie starts with Charles Morritz Jackson arriving at Duval s auction house to witness the sale of the Red Violin ... vying for the Red Violin. When the scene does finally shift to Montreal, we see a flashback of the events ... is a violin maker who is married to Anna Rudolfi Grazioli , pregnant with their first child. Anna is worried ... signifies that Anna would live a long life. In the meantime, Nicol has fashioned a new violin ... is about to varnish this violin when a boy comes, sent by the Physician doctor attending to his wife ..., Nicol brings her body back to his violin shop and begins varnishing the violin he had created for their child, mixing Anna s blood with the varnish. It is later revealed that this violin would be the last one Nicol would make. After Anna s death, the violin is donated to an orphanage in Austria . There, a succession of choirboys play this violin for at least the next 100 years. Throughout ... the Red Violin would make, as it is her blood on the violin. 1793, Vienna small Language of dialogue ... The hanged man means disease and suffering for those around Anna. At the orphanage, the violin comes ... more details
was an influential jazz rock fusion performer in the 1970s Jazz violin is the use of the violin or electric violin to improvise and perform utilizing scales and chord progressions unique to the compositions of Jazz musicians . The earliest references to jazz performance using the violin as a solo ... , who played violin with Jimmy Wade s Dixielanders in Chicago Stuff Smith Claude Williams , who played ... backgrounds to many jazz recordings. The violin is a Bow music bowed string instrument with four strings music strings usually tuned in perfect fifth s. It is the smallest and highest pitched member of the violin ... the strings with either hand , or a Playing the violin variety of other techniques . In jazz rock fusion styles, jazz violinists may use an electric violin plugged into an instrument amplifier ... Ellington . Asmussen was invited by Ellington to play on the Jazz Violin Session recording in 1963 ... s music, which led him to adopt the electric violin. Critic Joachim Berendt wrote that Since Ponty, the jazz violin has been a different instrument and of his style of Musical phrasing phrasing that corresponds ..., he pioneered the use of the 5 string electric violin, with a lower C string. He sometimes also uses a 6 string electric violin called the Violectra , with low C and F strings not to be confused ... lower. Ponty was among the first to combine the violin with MIDI , electronic distortion boxes ... Clarke and banjo ist B la Fleck . Electric violins Image Transformation.JPG thumb An acoustic violin and an electric violin with a cut away body In jazz rock fusion styles, jazz violinists may use an electric violin. Jazz fusion groups typically use rock instruments such as electric guitar, bass guitar ... violin that is plugged into an instrument amplifier . Moreover, the use of an electric violin ... music fuzzbox , to create unusual new sounds. An electric violin is a violin equipped with an electric ... which can either be an electro acoustic violin capable of producing both acoustic sound and electric ... more details
For the 1994 film The Violin Player film Infobox Album See Wikipedia WikiProject Albums Name The Violin Player Type Album Artist Vanessa Mae Cover VanessaMaeTheViolinPlayer.jpg Released 13 February 1995 Recorded 1993 1994 Genre Techno Acoustic music Acoustic European classical music Classical Length 42 50 Label EMI Producer Mike Batt Reviews Allmusic Rating 4 5 Allmusic class album id r209438 pure url yes link Last album Tchaikovsky & Beethoven Violin Concertos Vanessa Mae Tchaivoksky & Beethoven Violin Concertos br 1991 This album The Violin Player br 1995 Next album The Alternative Record from Vanessa Mae br 1996 Misc Singles Name The Violin Player Type Studio Single 1 Toccata & Fugue Single 1 date 16 January 1995 Single 2 Red Hot Single 2 date 8 May 1995 Single 3 Classical Gas Single 3 date 6 November 1995 The Violin Player was the first techno pop music pop album by European classical music classical and pop musician Vanessa Mae , released in 1995 see 1995 in music . It is also the first album Vanessa Mae released on the EMI label. The Violin Player has a varied blend of music covers of some classical J.S. Bach s Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565 Toccata and Fugue in D minor , remakes of old favourites including American composer Mason Williams Classical Gas and originals seven tracks composed by United Kingdom British musician and songwriter Mike Batt , and one original by Vanessa Mae herself, co written with Ian Wherry Red Hot . The Violin Player reached 11 in the UK Albums Chart in February 1995, and was certified Gold by the British Phonographic Industry BPI in June 1995. It has sold over 8 million copies worldwide, and is still regarded by many as Vanessa Mae s best work. The album has been reissued as a multi channel Super Audio CD hybrid SACD by EMI Music ... album stub Violin Player, The 1990s pop album stub Violin Player, The DEFAULTSORT Violin Player, The Category Vanessa Mae albums Category 1995 albums Category EMI Records albums ru The Violin ... more details
Infobox Book See Wikipedia WikiProject Novels or Wikipedia WikiProject Books name Violin image Image Violin rice.png 200px image caption The cover of the 1999 edition of Violin. author Anne Rice country United States language English genre Horror fiction Horror publisher Ballantine Books pub date October 15, 1997 pages 384 isbn 0 345 42530 8 oclc 42396768 Violin is a novel by United States American Horror fiction horror writer Anne Rice , released on 15 October 1997. It moves away from her previous stories about vampires and witches to tell a ghost story . Plot summary The book is set in numerous places, including Vienna , New Orleans which is typical of Rice s novels and Rio de Janeiro . The novel tells the story of three people a middle aged woman yearning to become a musician , a ghost ghostly violin ist hence the title , and the ghost of Ludwig van Beethoven Beethoven . The story begins with Triana, who apparently becomes insane due to the death of her second husband, Karl, who had AIDS . Her first husband was Lev, with whom Triana had a daughter. Stefan, the ghost, appears the day Karl dies and plays his Stradivarius s long Strad apparently also a ghost . Triana secludes herself in her house for several days without informing anyone of Karl s death. Through the course of the book we learn the story of both Triana and Stefan. Stefan takes Triana in a travel through time, visiting scenes from his life and his afterlife in an attempt to reclaim his violin, which had been taken by Triana. Stefan had many mentors including Ludwig van Beethoven Beethoven and Paganini , but it is Ludwig van Beethoven Beethoven whom Stefan cherished the most. After Stefan s story is told Triana ... seemingly possessing a talent to improvise in the violin. We see the ghost of this great musician about ... his attempts to reclaim the violin but to no avail, until finally, after achieving success with her improvisations it is in Brazil that Triana returns the violin to his rightful owner and Stefan finally ... more details
Infobox Instrument name Electric Violin names image F58 wiki.jpg classification Bowed string instrument range related Violin An electric violin is a violin equipped with an electronic output of its sound ..., usually with a solid body. It can also refer to a violin fitted with an electric Pick up music technology pickup of some type, although amplified violin or electro acoustic violin are more accurate ... violin s fingerboard avoiding interference with any tone producing parts of the violin, and so ... instruments have a solid body instead. The timbre tone color of a standard unamplified violin is due ... violin may have a rawer or sharper sound than an acoustic instrument. This raw sound is often preferred ... violin sound while reducing susceptibility to feedback. Solid body electric violins typically have ..., ref http www.StringAmp.com ref and it is not unusual for an electric violin to have 5, 6 , 7 or more ... C and low F for 6, and a low C, F and B music flat for 7. Electric violin signals usually pass through ... . Pickups Image Transformation.JPG thumb right A traditional acoustic violin and a modern electronic violin from Marc Capuano. Electric violins commonly use either magnetic or piezoelectricity piezoelectric Pick up music technology pickup s. Guitar coil type Magnetic pickups require the use of Violin construction and mechanics Strings violin strings that have ferrous iron containing, as in steel ... size and arced string arrangement of a violin limit the amount of space available for coil placement. One unusual acoustic electric violin system uses the string itself as a linear active pickup element ... signal processor, but some electric violin body designs provide internal housing for preamp circuitry. ref http www.jordanmusic.com ref ref http www.electricviolinlutherie.com ref Genres Although the violin ... music . The electric violin is more frequently used by non classical musicians in popular genres ... violin in their compositions. Finnish folk metal band Korpiklaani also focuses in Jaakko ... more details
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