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14 unusual facts about string instrument


Academy of Music, University of Zagreb

String instruments and guitar department (Odsjek za gudačke instrumente i gitaru)

Check on It

"Check on It" is an R&B and hip hop song, which is instrumentally complete with a heavy bassline, strings, and wind instrument.

Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda

The strings are divided into four independent parts instead of the usual five – an innovation that was not generally adopted by European composers until the 18th century.

Inlay

Lutherie inlays are frequently used as decoration and marking on musical instruments, particularly the smaller strings.

Is It Any Wonder?

During the first verse of the original version, only synthesizer strings are used as a background for Chaplin's singing.

Matao guitar

Matao also made bass guitars, ukuleles, and banjos, and band instruments for school orchestras including drums, brass (trumpet and trombones), strings (violins, cellos) & woodwinds, (clarinet, flute).

Melbourne String Ensemble

Fintan Murphy – senior lecturer and co-ordinator of strings at the Monash University School of Music, Chair of the AMEB Specialist Examining Panel for Strings, violin teacher at the Victorian College of the Arts Secondary School.

Mothers Talk

The strings at the beginning of the song were culled from a Barry Manilow record, while the drum sample around which "Empire Building" is built was lifted from the Simple Minds song "Today I Died Again".

New England String Ensemble

New England String Ensemble was founded in 1993 by violinist Peter Stickel and cellist John Bumstead to champion strings in performance and education and is one of the country’s leading professional string orchestras.

Raspberry Beret

The sound was different from any previous Prince track, incorporating Middle Eastern finger cymbals, stringed instruments, and even a harmonica on the extended version.

Sigismund Zaremba

His compositions, which are distinguished by spontaneity and melodiousness, include a suite for string orchestra, a polonaise for full orchestra, a Slavic dance, a string quartet, piano music, romances, etc.

String instrument

Composers such as Henry Cowell wrote music which asks for the player to reach inside the piano and pluck the strings directly, or to "bow" them with bow hair wrapped around the strings, or play them by rolling the bell of a brass instrument such as a trombone on the array of strings.

Sweet Illusion

The orchestral accompaniment consisted of 12 violins, 4 violas, 4 celli, (Strings) and 3 trumpets, 2 tenor trombones and 1 bass trombone (Brass).

Vancouver Technical Secondary School

Orchestra an after-school course separated into two levels; Beginner and Senior.


Bologna School of music

They include Cazzati, Perti, G. B. Vitali, Torelli and Corelli (who had Bolognese links although he mainly worked in Rome); the school is associated with sacred music and particularly with the rise of the instrumental concerto and sonata, including music for trumpet and strings, a Bolognese speciality.

Classical guitar strings

Guitars are a type of musical instrument called string instruments, meaning that they create their sound through the vibrations of a string.

ESCM

Simon HaleStrings arrangement on "Firewater", "The Road to Lostwithiel" and "Remember"

Etobicoke School of the Arts

ESA offers artistic programs for students who successfully complete the audition process in the major of their choice, namely Drama, Dance, Visual Arts, Film, Music (Band or Strings), and Musical Theatre.

Students are accepted into their chosen field, namely Drama, Dance, Visual Arts, Music (Band or Strings), Film and Musical Theatre, after undergoing an application process and passing an audition the year before.

Ferdinand Sorenson

With Sorenson's numerous string and brass students and extensive teaching experience he was able to assist Mary Dodge, Jacques Gershkovitch and others in developing the Portland Junior Symphony.

Jewelled Antler

Indeed besides a wide range of traditional and exotic stringed things and low-tech electronic equipment, some of the "instruments" on their albums include pine cones, creeks, branches and crude harps built from fallen trees.

KiKi KaiKai

KiKi KaiKais soundtrack, composed by Hisayoshi Ogura, is reflective of traditional Japanese folk music, mostly utilizing woodwind and string instruments like the shamisen with an electronic beat.

Night and Day II

Also featured are the string quartet Ethel, and three guest vocalists: Iranian diva Sussan Deyhim, drag performer Dale De Vere and Baroness "Sacher-Masoch" Marianne Faithfull, who sings vocals on "Love Got Lost".

Peter Fribbins

A number of his key works are literary-inspired, and much of his music is for strings, notable exceptions being the early wind quintet 'In Xanadu' from 1992 (after Coleridge), 'Porphyria’s Lover' (1999) for flute and piano (after Browning), and the clarinet and piano '...That Which Echoes in Eternity' (after lines from Dante's Divine Comedy).

The End of Evangelion

Among the other pieces included are Cello Suite No. 1 in G Major (I. Prélude), Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring (transcribed for piano and later played again with string instruments in the end credits), and Pachelbel's Canon.

Yesterday Was Dramatic – Today Is OK

Hildur Guðnadóttir, Gróa Margrét Valdimarsdóttir, Sigríður Geirsdóttir – strings on track 6