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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 ...
Horace William Petherick (1839-1919) was an artist and illustrator, a violin connoisseur, and a writer. As an artist, four of his works are in public collections in the UK; as an illustrator, he illustrated over 100 books, some of which are still in print, and his work can be found in digital collections at the British Library, the Osborne Collection of Early Children's Books, and the Baldwin ...
Pages in category "Cambridge University Press books" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 242 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Some aspects of violin playing in his day can be seen: the lightweight, concave bow and the absence of any chin rest or shoulder rest. Versuch einer gründlichen Violinschule ( A Treatise on the Fundamental Principles of Violin Playing ) is a textbook for instruction in the violin , published by Leopold Mozart in 1756.
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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 ...
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 ...