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She also runs an annual Irish Cello Retreat every summer in Ireland and has run other workshops in Europe on improvisation and Irish traditional playing techniques for cello. De Ziah is the musical director of the Cork Light Orchestra, a community orchestra of amateur and semi-professional musicians with various levels of experience.
As a basso continuo instrument the cello may have been used in works by Francesca Caccini (1587–1641), Barbara Strozzi (1619–1677) with pieces such as Il primo libro di madrigali, per 2–5 voci e basso continuo, op. 1 and Elisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre (1665–1729), who wrote six sonatas for violin and basso continuo.
The pogo cello, being a homemade folk instrument, has a configuration that is somewhat open to interpretation depending on the individual who creates it. A typical description of the parts that might make a pogo cello are: A broom handle, pole, or a six-foot 2x3 piece of lumber. A spring fastened to the bottom of the wood.
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This is a list of folk music traditions, with styles, dances, instruments and other related topics. The term folk music can not be easily defined in a precise manner; it is used with widely varying definitions depending on the author, intended audience and context within a work.
Ma's primary performance instrument is the Davidov cello, made in 1712 by Antonio Stradivari. [7] It was previously owned by Jacqueline du Pré , who bequeathed it to him. Du Pré voiced her frustration with the cello's "unpredictability", but Ma attributed du Pré's sentiment to her impassioned style of playing, adding that the Stradivarius ...
Steven Sharp Nelson grew up in Salt Lake City, Utah, [2] the son of John C. Nelson and Lynne Sanders. [3] His mother was a former professional opera singer, and she died from a brain tumor on May 21, 1999, [4] and his younger sister, Camille Nelson, is a folk musician. [5]
Long String Instrument, (by Ellen Fullman, strings are rubbed in, and vibrate in the longitudinal mode) Magnetic resonance piano , (strings activated by electromagnetic fields) Stringed instruments with keyboards