This instrument has a pedal mechanism that allows the player to change the voltage colfskin head, either to relax or tighten, to produce a high or low tone. These instruments include compulsory controlled by an orchestral percussionist. Timpani has …
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Percussion Instruments
One of the instruments in the orchestra that specializes in rhythmic percussion is sexy. But unlike the popular music rhythm pattern continuously reads on, in order to maintain the tempo of the game ensembles, classical percussion in the orchestra us…
The Clarinet Musical Instrument
An orchestra has 2 or 3 clarinet, this instrument is an important instrument in an orchestra. Clarinet is very important in the wind instruments such as the violin in stringed instruments. This instrument was developed by a German instrument maker, J…
The Flute Musical Instrument
In any wind instruments, emphasizing sounded kind of air through the pipe. In the organ, the harder and largest wind instruments, air pressure, called puffs (wind) out of the reservoir continues to be supplied by a blower. In the orchestra there are…
Cello In The Orchestra
Cello is part of the standard symphony orchestra. In cello, orchestra seats standard, positioned on the left (audience right) front. Some orchestra and conductor swap positions with viola cello. The main group, or a cellist in the front pew, determi…
The Cello
In the kind of stringed instrument, the cello is the instrument tenor voice. While shaped like a violin, but larger cello and held between the knees so that the player can produce beautiful sounds of the notes to the low tones of the most high. Cell…
Viola and Orchestra
Mozart in Sinfonia Concertante for Violin, Viola and Orchestra in Es major, wrote the viola part in D major and requested that the viola strings raised a semi-tone. The goal is to produce a better sound viola so not drowned out by the other instrume…
History of Violins
At first violin is used with other musical instruments to accompany the dance. When the violin was considered a musical instrument from the bottom, but then became a solo instrument during the 17th century, the violin came from Italy in the years aro…
The Types of Orchestra - Part 3
SimfoniettaSimfonieta is a small symphony. This form has a shorter structure of the symphony and simple orchestration. Several composers of the 20th century have been successfully using this type is Janacek, Prokofiev, and Miaskovsky.SuiteSuite is a …
The Types of Orchestra - Part 2
Fantasia Fantasia is very popular in the music instrumental solo. Beethoven wrote Fantasia for Piano, Chorus and Orchestra in C Minor who rarely played. The work is very famous orchestra of contemporary composers, Ralph Vaughan Williams, entitled Fan…
The Types of Orchestra
Music orchestra consists of various types. Although it is always evolving, but the kind that are important to understand the following: Bolero Bolero is Spanish dance in triple rhythm, usually accompanied by castanets. But first created by Sebastian …
Zubin Mehta
Born in Bombay, India, on 29 April 1936. He was kondaktor orchestra, music director of Los Angeles PhilharmonicOrchestra (1962-78), New York Philharmonic Orchestra (1978-91), and the Israel Philharmonic (from1968). His father, Mehli Mehta, is a viol…
Leonard Bernstein
Leonard Bernstein was born August 25, 1918 in Lawrence, Massachusetts, USA, and died in New York on October 14, 1990. It has the advantage of leading popular music and classical. Bernstein playing piano since the age of 10, and enrolled in: Latin Sc…
Herbert Von Karajan
Born in Salzburg, Austria, on 5 April 1908 and died in Anif, near Salzburg, on July 16, 1989. Apart from being kondaktor opera and orchestra, he is a figure well-known international musicians in the mid-20th century. He underwent his musical studies…
Lorin Maazel Kondaktor
Lorin Maazel Varencove, born on March 6, 1930 in Neuilly, France. He was a kondaktor and violinist, and a Director of the Cleveland Orchestra from 1972 to 1982. Maazel grew up in Los Angeles and began his musical studies at the age of five. At that t…
Coordination Orchestra
Each section has a leader instrument (the principal) who is responsible for leading the group and also play solo parts when needed. String section has 4 sub sections: violin, viola, cello, and bass each have principal. In the string section, each pri…
What is an Orchestra
Orchestra is larger in size ensemble involving most musical instruments and supporting instruments are divided into several types, namely strings, woodwind, brass, and percussion. Orchestral arrangement tailored to the needs of the composition, the s…
History of Classical Music Orchestra
Orchestra is a big band formation consisting of complete musical instruments among other music groups. Orchestra has been around since the power in the 14th century, and also in the kingdom Francis. Musical instruments used at the time as the lut…