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A string vibrates in a complex harmonic pattern. Every time the player sets a string in motion, a specific set of frequencies resonate based on the harmonic series. The fundamental frequency is the lowest, and it is determined by the density, length and tension of the string. This is the frequency we identify as the pitch of the string. Above ...
Libby Larsen (born 1950): String Quartet No. 4 (Emergence) (1991), Schoenberg, Schenker and Schillinger (1999), Quartet she wrote (2008), Sorrow, Song and Jubilee (2014). Lorenzo Ferrero (born 1951): Set of twelve string quartets entitled Tempi di quartetto (1996–1998); Five Aztec Gods (2005). Aleksander LasoĊ (born 1951): Eight quartets, as ...
S. Chevalier de Saint-Georges; Camille Saint-Saëns; Franz Schmidt (composer) Alfred Schnittke; Franz Schubert; Sara Opal Search; Virginia Seay; Ruth Crawford Seeger
The String Quartet: A History. Thames and Hudson. ISBN 0-500-27383-9. Griffiths, Paul: "String Quartet: §§5–9", in: The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001). Scholes, Percy A. (1938). The Oxford Companion to Music. Oxford University Press.
A string orchestra is an orchestra consisting solely of a string section made up of the bowed strings used in Western Classical music. The instruments of such an orchestra are most often the following: the violin, which is divided into first and second violin players (each usually playing different parts), the viola, the cello, and usually, but not always, the double bass.
Rotosound was started in the late 1950s by James How, a musician and engineer by trade. How started manufacturing music strings for many famous artists across the world. As of 2022 It was still a family-run business, making all Rotosound strings in England. [1] [2] Rotosound's most famous string set, the RS66 Swing Bass, was first produced in 1966.
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In discussions of the instrumentation of a musical work, the phrase "the strings" or "and strings" is used to indicate a string section as just defined. An orchestra consisting solely of a string section is called a string orchestra. Smaller string sections are sometimes used in jazz, pop, and rock music and in the pit orchestras of musical ...