Your Bow, Your Voice
Frog of a violin bow (K. Gerhard Penzel) Photograph from ViolinBowFrog-pjt - Bow (music) - Wikipedia (date accessed 3/4/26) It was the Baroque composer and violinist Arcangelo Corelli who said, “Your bow is your voice”. In that sense we use our bows to create our sound and to help us to tell the musical story. There are limitless possibilities with the bow – short percussive and rhythmic strokes, brushed strokes, or long sustained strokes to name but a few. Dynamics form p
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The Mannheim School
The courtyard of the Palace at Mannheim During the latter half of the 18th century, an orchestra based in Mannheim, at the Court of Duke Karl Theodor, became well known throughout Europe. Visitors, including Mozart, wrote glowing accounts of its highly disciplined virtuosity and its ability to produce certain novel and arousing effects such as lengthy, whole orchestra crescendos and abrupt dynamic changes. Associated with this orchestra were a group of composers of the early
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“And their song mingles with the moonlight”
Claude Monet, A Seascape, Shipping by Moonlight As we begin our new term this September, the evenings will be getting darker and our...
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Gluck and the Paris Opera
Gluck in Paris 1777. It was November 1773 when the German composer Christoph Gluck arrived in Paris. He was a man with a mission and his...
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Janáček and his “Idyll”
New Year greetings from Strings Together! We are looking forward to the start of our new term on 14th January. One of the pieces which...
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Music for the 19th Century Salon
Although public concerts began to grow in number during the 19th century, the custom of holding concerts in private houses for invited...
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