Nicole Tubman sends along the following info about a fascinating event coming up this Thursday morning at Discover Times Square Exposition in NYC, featuring Leonardo da Vinci's hypothetical-but-never-built Harpsichord Viola: On Thursday, December 10, at 11am, to mark the unveiling of Leonardo da Vinci’s harpsichord-viola designed over 500 years ago, Piffaro, the Renaissance band,...
The International Viola Society is presenting its 2010 Congress in Cincinnati, Ohio in June 2010. It has an amazing lineup of some of the foremost viola players in the world, with an emphasis on those from the U.S. If you’re partial to the viola (as I am) then you’ll want to consider making it to [...]
Q: What do you do with a viola da gambia? (Hock it! Dock it! or Sock it') Count Sneaky A: You ditch that sucker with any resources available to you. And if you find a mandolin or other strange-pitched stringed freaks along the way, you RUN, do not WALK to the trash bin, do NOT pass GO and DO NOT collect $200.00! Ack! HOW DO I get this horrible taste out of my non-Renaissance mind?
To introduce himself, Fredo Viola nicely says that "reaching my forties, I accept the few I am. Failures made me humble and this humility leads me to make new personal and professional choices, after having enjoyed so much being a project manager." About his trailer, he said : "I thought about a trailer not getting to far from the script of the movie, even though I took the risk...
Enikő Magyar, viola Timothy End, piano Delius – Violin Sonata no.3 (arr. L. Tertis) Patterson – Tides of Mananan Bridge – Short Pieces Wilson – Mürrische Erde, wp Bliss – Sonata St John’s, Smith Square, 2 December 2009 The tone of the viola, fuller and darker than the violin’s, is an obvious draw for composers, but perhaps it is its...
A new lesbian film, Viola di Mare ( Sea Purple ), is generating a lot of buzz lately, having just picked up the NICE City of Florence award last week at the San Francisco Film Society's New Italian Cinema festival. Directed by Donatella Maiorca , it is set in 19th century Sicily and revolves around Angela ( Valeria Solarino ) and her attraction to her best friend Sara ( Isabella Ragonese )....
The first-ever functional model of a harpsichord-viola designed by Leonardo da Vinci more than 500 years ago will have its premiere in New York City. The instrument combines a harpsichord keyboard with the sound of a viola. It will be played on Thur...
On a heads-up from The Noble Viola's Charles Noble, we looked in on Oregon Symphony Orchestra cellist Justin Kagan's Badbeard's Microroastery in Portland, Oregon, and...
Programmers/coders will appreciate this cool creation by Mark: a visual approach to generate a regexp based on the given input string. Click to launch. @ haha.nu Related posts:Facial Expression SimulatorMusicMapThe LEGO Turing machineDrum MachineFredo Viola – The Turn Related posts: Facial Expression Simulator MusicMap The LEGO Turing machine Drum Machine Fredo Viola – The...
... meaning, but according to its name “small old cheap violins ” (Violino), distinct from the role of Viola (Viola), this instrument can be determined in any case before the middle of the 16th century, has been used. But must admit that from the beginning of 1520 was referred to this new instrument, it is destined to replace all before it and with it also appears similar or identical...
I have been spending my weekend with my viola d'amore, finishing a set of three dances for five violas d'amore, and finally figuring out how to make a plausible multi-track recording. I haven't quite figured out how to edit individual voices, so there are flaws here and there which I hope are not too apparent to people who don't know the music (which, at the moment I am writing, includes...
... was developed in Italy during the17th century. It consists of instruments such as the violin, viola, cello and the bass viol. Among the different members of the violin family, violin is considered the king of musical instruments. How many different types of cheap violins are there? Basically, cheap violins are classified into two-acoustic or non-electric violins and electric violins. Acoustic...
( EMAILWIRE.COM , December 08, 2009 ) West Palm Beach: Christmas has long been a gateway to expose new ears to the unique sound of the five-member, string-playing Annie Moses Band, considering audiences often broaden their musical tastes during the holidays. This all-sibling ensemble range from ages 26 11 starting with Annie (lead vocals, violin), Alex (viola, background vocals), Benjamin (cello),...
