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Violin
The violin is a bowed string instrument with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is the smallest and highest-pitched member of the violin family of string instruments, which also includes the viola and cello. A violin is sometimes informally called a fiddle, no matter what kind of music is played on it. The word "violin" comes to us through the Romance languages from the Middle Latin word ''vitula'', meaning "stringed instrument"; this word may also be the source of the Germanic... More »
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Violin concerto
A violin concerto is a concerto for solo violin and instrumental ensemble, customarily orchestra. Such works have been written from the Baroque period, when the solo concerto form was first developed, up through the present day. Many major composers have contributed to the violin concerto repertoire, with the best known works including those by Bach, Bartók, Beethoven, Brahms, Bruch, Mendelssohn, Mozart, Sibelius, Tchaikovsky, and Vivaldi. Traditionally a three-movement work, the violin... More »
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Electric violin
An electric violin is a violin equipped with an electronic output of its sound. The term can refer to a standard violin fitted with an electric pickup of some type, or to an instrument purposely made to be electrified with built-in pickups, usually with a solid body. Electrically amplified violins have been used in one form or another since the 1920s; jazz and blues artist Stuff Smith is generally credited as being one of the first performers to adapt pickups and amplifiers to violins. More »
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Violin sonata
A violin sonata is a musical composition for solo violin, often accompanied by a piano or other keyboard instrument, or by figured bass in the Baroque. Some violin sonatas, notably those by Mozart and early Beethoven, are primarily piano works with the violin playing a lesser role. More »
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The Red Violin
''The Red Violin'' , is a 1998 Canadian film. It spans three centuries and five countries as it tells the story of a violin and its many owners. The film was an international co-production between companies in Canada, Italy and the UK. More »
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Violin family
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 disputed. It is sometimes taken to be part of the viol family, due to its sloping shoulders, its tuning, and its sometimes flat back. Others say that these features are arbitrary, and point to the the internal... More »
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Baroque violin
A baroque violin is, in common usage, any violin whose neck, fingerboard, bridge, and tailpiece are of the type used during the baroque period. Such an instrument may be an original built during the baroque and never changed to modern form; or a modern replica built as a baroque violin; or an older instrument which has been converted to baroque form. Following period practices, most baroque violinists use gut strings. This lends a certain purity and at times earthiness to the sound. More »
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Violin Concerto (Berg)
Alban Berg's ''Violin Concerto'' was written in 1935 . It is probably Berg's best known and most often performed piece. More »
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Violin Concerto (Beethoven)
Ludwig van Beethoven's ''Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in D major'' was written in 1806. It is Beethoven's opus 61. The work was premiered on December 23, 1806 in the Theater an der Wien in Vienna. Beethoven wrote the concerto for his colleague Franz Clement, a leading violinist of the day, who had earlier given him helpful advice on his opera ''Fidelio''. The occasion was a benefit concert for Clement. It is believed that Beethoven finished the solo part so late that Clement had to... More »
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Violin Concerto (Mendelssohn)
Felix Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64 is his last large orchestral work. It forms an important part of the violin repertoire and is one of the most popular and most frequently performed violin concertos of all time. A typical performance lasts just under half an hour. More »
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Violin Concerto (Brahms)
The ''Violin Concerto in D major'' by Johannes Brahms, his opus 77, is one of the best-known of all violin concertos. It follows the standard concerto form, with three movements in the pattern quick-slow-quick: #''Allegro non troppo'' #''Adagio'' #''Allegro giocoso, ma non troppo vivace - Poco piu presto'' Originally, however, the work was planned in four movements like the second piano concerto. The middle movements, one of which was intended to be a scherzo, were replaced with what... More »
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Violin Concerto (Elgar)
The ''Violin Concerto in B Minor'', opus 61, one of Sir Edward Elgar's longest orchestral works, has been described as 'the greatest English contribution to the treasury of Romantic violin concertos'. More »
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Violin Concerto (Tchaikovsky)
The ''Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 35'' by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky is one of the best known of all violin concertos. It is also considered to be among the most technically difficult works for violin. As with most concerti, the piece is in three movements, the first and last quick, the second slow: #''Allegro moderato'' #''Canzonetta: Andante - '' #''Finale: Allegro vivacissimo'' The piece was written in 1878 in Clarens, a Swiss resort on the shores of Lake Geneva where Tchaikovsky... More »
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Luthier
A luthier is someone who makes or repairs stringed instruments. The word luthier comes from the French . The makers that originally built lutes eventually built violins and other string instruments as well, but the appellation remained. The craft of lutherie is commonly divided into two main categories: stringed instruments that are plucked or strummed, and stringed instruments that are bowed. While there are a nearly limitless variety of stringed instruments types—both historic and... More »
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Stroh violin
A Stroh violin, or violinophone, is a violin that amplifies its sound through a metal resonator and metal horns 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. Stroh violins are much louder than a standard wooden violin. This made the Stroh violin particularly useful in the early days of phonographic recording. As regular violins recorded poorly with the old... More »
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