Violin-Making

Violin-Making
Author: Edward Heron-Allen
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 402
Release: 2013-09-09
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0486317714

This classic guide offers an accessible initiation into the mysteries of violin-making. Charming in its style and cultivated in its research, it covers every detail of the process and includes a fascinating history of the instrument. More than 200 diagrams, engravings, and photographs complement the text.

The Science and Art of Violins

The Science and Art of Violins
Author: Julian Ting
Publisher: Scholar Books Publishing
Total Pages: 92
Release: 2023-04-05
Genre: Science
ISBN:

With the development of science and technology, the utility of wood decreases, but in the world of luthiers, wood can never be replaced by other materials. This forest industry has great value. This gold mine was discovered in China and turned into mass production. In terms of volume and tone, a violin is incomparable with other stringed instruments, such as a guitar, ukulele, erhu. The performance skills and repertoire developed are hence rich. After a brief review of the history of violin making we discuss the physics of it.

Playing with Style for String Quartet or String Orchestra

Playing with Style for String Quartet or String Orchestra
Author: Joanne Martin
Publisher: Alfred Music
Total Pages: 20
Release:
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9781457413360

Playing with Style is a set of colorful concert pieces in a variety of styles, including tango, ragtime, and jazz. These audience-pleasing pieces are enjoyable to play and will broaden the musical horizons of young players. The pieces use effects such as glissando and tremolo and allow opportunities to explore chromaticisms, swing rhythms and syncopation. Available for string quartet or string orchestra, violin duet or viola duet. Titles are: * Chromatic Tango * Soft Shoe * Hoedown * April Rag * Hopak * Mellow Moment.

Compendium of Chords for the Violin

Compendium of Chords for the Violin
Author: Benjamin Whitcomb
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 125
Release: 2018-03-29
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1546230726

There are many resources for practicing scales and arpeggios on the violin, but extremely few for practicing chords. Understanding chords on the violin can be a very useful skill for violinists for a variety of reasons, the most obvious of which is that chords appear a significant number of times in the violin repertoire. In addition, understanding chords: helps you to think harmonically, helps you to better analyze music, improves your ability to sight read and to play arpeggios and double stops, helps the fingers of your left hand to work better together as a team, and facilitates composition and improvisation.

The Etude

The Etude
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 172
Release: 1913
Genre: Music
ISBN:

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