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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.
Physics of the Violin (translation of Physik der Geige by John S. Allen). Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press. ISBN 978-0-262-03102-8. Raman, C.V. (1918). "On the mechanical theory of vibrations of bowed strings and of musical instruments of the violin family". Indian Association of the Cultivation of Science. Part 1 (pp. 1-276). Part 2 (pp ...
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.
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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 row's last four notes, ascending whole tones, are also the first four notes of the chorale melody "Es ist genug" ("It is enough"). Bach composed a four-part setting of the hymn by Franz Joachim Burmeister with a melody by Johann Rudolph Ahle to conclude his cantata O Ewigkeit, du Donnerwort , BWV 60 ( O eternity, you thunderous word ). [ 6 ]
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.