Sheet music violin and other string instrumentsWritten by Helen Baxter
The violin is a bowed stringed instrument and is highest pitched member of violin family. It sits along side its cousins other members of violin family - viola, cello, and double bass. The bow of violin is a narrow, slightly incurved stick of Pernambuco about 75 cm long, with a band of horsehair stretched from end to end of bowstick. The violin has four strings tuned a fifth apart, to notes g, d, a, e: On early violins strings were of pure gut. Today they may be of gut, gut wound with aluminum or silver, steel, or perlon. Sheet music - violin is often provided to students by conductors of their orchestras or their private teachers who wish to learn to play this fine instrument. For players who aren't officially students anywhere, however, there are a wide variety of sources from which to obtain sheet music. Very recently, Internet may actually have surpassed music stores as best place to find new pieces to play. An enormous variety of violin sheet music is available for free download from Internet. Violin players of any skill level should be able to locate sheet music they want online, and in some cases, even for free. Sheet music can be free to share online if two qualifications are met. First, it must be seventy years or more since piece was composed; after this amount of time, creative works enter public domain. Specific editions of a work can still be protected by copyright, however, as editors and arrangers maintain their own copyrights over versions they have created.
| | Suzuki Violin Vs Traditional ViolinWritten by Helen Baxter
The Suzuki violin method has come to dominate way violin is taught in America and throughout much of world. Mention Suzuki violin method to music educators, and you will get a variety of responses. While it is common for some teachers to mix elements of Suzuki violin method with traditional approach other teachers either love or hate Suzuki method. Lets examine Suzuki violin versus traditional violin below. The Suzuki violin study method emphasizes passive modes of learning - watching and listening. Before engaging in formal study, Suzuki violin students are exposed to recordings of first and subsequent pieces they will play, as well as recordings of great performances from general classical repertory. This continues when students begin formal study and as they progress. Recordings are played as "background music", for hours each day and at low volume levels. Here, thinking is that exposure to recordings is similar to effect of immersion that naturally occurs in process of primary language acquisition. Successful study is enhanced by prolonged repeated exposure. Suzuki violin students develop an internal model of music to be studied. They memorize music and internalize nuances of pitch, tone, timing, articulation, and dynamics demonstrated in recorded performances. Traditional violin study favors a type of training that virtually ignores passive learning approaches. While students may be encouraged to listen to recordings of more advanced repertory played by concert artists or symphony orchestras, beginning students are generally not given opportunity to listen to recordings of beginning pieces that they are or will be studying.
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