Word Finder - violins

definition

A musical four-string instrument, generally played with a bow or by plucking the string, with the pitch set by pressing the strings at the appropriate place with the fingers; also any instrument of the violin family.

synonyms

• fiddle

definition

A violinist.

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The first violin often plays the lead melody lines in a string quartet.

Violins, rap, beatboxers, knitting - Urban Classic brings together some very strange bedfellows.

Hegedu duo - Dal / Duo for Two Violins No. 20 - Song (1'18 ") 20.

Creep of wood makes it important that longbows or violins are not left tightly strung.

Why hasn't someone composed a symphony for badly played violins?

There is also a lovely bonus track, ' Stargazer ', originally from the band's first album, with added poignant violins.

You think you hear the violas, but it's really the second violins.

Others may take a moment to visit Cremona where the famous Stradivarius violins were made.

Yet, so insensible is Schatz to the euphony of his own work, that he proposes, as an alternative for the first and second trombones, two violins an octave higher, the other parts remaining unaltered!

Thus Mozart's most perfect as well as most ecclesiastical example is his extremely terse Mass in F, written at the age of seventeen, which is scored simply for fourpart chorus and solo voices accompanied by the organ with a largely independent bass and by two violins mostly in independent real parts.

There is a return to the agitation with loud, isolated orchestral chords playing against two solo violins.

The most popular type of sycamore used in violins has a curl in the grain which shows up as a flame effect.

Why has n't someone composed a symphony for badly played violins?

There is also a lovely bonus track, ' Stargazer ', originally from the band 's first album, with added poignant violins.

You think you hear the violas, but it 's really the second violins.

Student violins tend to be cheaper because of the materials used and the amount of time used to construct it.

Professional violins are made from fancy woods and will cost from thousands to tens of thousands of dollars.

If you have an odd measurement not listed, ask the advice of a violin teacher, someone who makes violins or even the clerk who sells violins.

Your expensive ones probably will come with one, but your used violins won't necessarily.

Violins, violas, and other orchestral instruments should be fitted to the student.

Teen Trend will let you read an entire issue online, and if you're a musical teen interested in string instruments like violins, cellos and fiddles, there's a magazine just for you called Teen Strings.

Robert Firpo, a band leader, expanded the instrumentation into a tango sextet, with two bandoneons, two violins, a piano and a double bass.

The music features violins, guitars, bass and often trumpets or a harp.

In Der Ring des Nibelungen Wagner specifies the proportions of the string-band as 16 first and 16 second violins, 12 violas, 12 violoncellos, 8 double basses.

Classical and modern chamber-music in the sonata style consists mainly of string-quartets for 2 violins, viola and violoncello; string-trios (rare, because very difficult to write sonorously); pianoforte-trios (pianoforte, violin and violoncello); pianoforte-quartets (pianoforte with string-trio); pianoforte-quintets (pianoforte with string-quartet); string-quintets (with 2 violas, very rarely with 2 violoncellos), and (in two important cases by Brahms) stringsextets.