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The Cambridge Companions to Music form a book series published by Cambridge University Press. Each book is a collection of essays on the topic commissioned by the publisher. [1] The first was published in 1993, the Cambridge Companion to the Violin. Since then numerous volumes have been published nearly every year, covering a variety of ...
Born in 1612 or 1613, [1] he played the lute from c. 1621, but his teacher if any is unknown. [2] He also played the viol. [3] He was a singer, [4] termed a lay clerk, in the choir of Trinity College, Cambridge from 1635 until his death. [3] During the 1644 Siege of York, in the English Civil War, he was present in that city, [4] where he had ...
The viola is a larger version of the violin, and has on average a total body length of 27 + 1 ⁄ 4 inches (69.2 cm), with strings tuned a fifth lower than a violin (with a length of about 23 + 3 ⁄ 8 inches (59.4 cm)). The viola's larger size is not proportionally great enough to correspond to the strings being pitched as they are, which ...
Having played violins from many manufacturers, Henley sought to compile a comprehensive list evaluating violin and bow makers. After Henley's death in 1957, dealer Cyril Woodcock (1897–1980) [1] completed and published the work based on Henley's unfinished notes. The work was first published in five volumes in 1959 and 1960, and republished ...
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Harvey Samuel Whistler Jr. was born September 7, 1907, in Fresno, California, [4] to hotel owners, Harvey Samuel and Sallie Byrn Whistler. [5] His mother, a classically trained pianist, insisted that music be part of Harvey Jr.’s education and oversaw his earliest training on piano.
commissioned by Ensemble Robot and Boston Museum of Science, premiered January 25, 2005 by Evan Ziporyn and Todd Reynolds. Thread (2005) 25' – clarinet, alto and bass flute, violin, cello; commissioned and premiered by Dinosaur Annex, Cambridge, MA June 2005. No Return (2002) 30' – 4 movements for violin, clarinet, and sounds of the Salmon ...
The abbreviations col 8, coll' 8, and c. 8 va stand for coll'ottava, meaning "with the octave", i.e. to play the notes in the passage together with the notes in the notated octaves. Any of these directions can be cancelled with the word loco , but often a dashed line or bracket indicates the extent of the music affected.