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Ancient instruments

In the XXth century, the renaissance of the ancient music (as there is known the music previous to the classicism) they exhibited the difficulty of the modern instruments for the same ones. It does not cause, for example, the same impression to touch The key tempered good of J. S. Bach in a piano or in a spinet. Of equal way it happens with other instruments and families of instruments. Today they are made at handmade level and allow to re-live through a repertoire invaluable.

Natural metals

Formerly, the instruments were constructing themselves recta or lightly curled because the manufacturers were not dominating the art of twisting sonorous pipes. Then one managed to do it thanks to the incorporation of the valves and of keys and levers that make possible to cover and to uncover holes over a distance.

History

Between the wood there are many instruments in desuetude or incorporated into the European folk music, like the flageolet and the medieval cromorno (species of oboes), also oficl�idos and serpentines, ancient horns with holes and natural trumpets, lutes, lyres, psalters, virginal and spinets, vihuelas, you violate d'amore, it gives braccio and gives shrimp, double basses, pianofortes, as well as more modern inventions, as sarrus�fono, helic�n, bombar di�o, fliscornos and bugles today confined in the bands.

Big Works

J.S.Bach: Sonatas for viola gives shrimp and harpsichord
G.P.Telemann: I agree for two violas.
Schostak�vich: Sonata for piano and viola

Other ancient and folk instruments:

Zithers: Hummel (Sweden). Langleik (Norway).
Spinet of the Vosges (France). Dulcimel (Germany).
Cimbal�n (Hungary).
Lutes: Archila�d. Tiorba. Chitarrone. Cit�la or cistro.

I besiege in the Band

They usually do not appear in the orchestral staff, but yes in sets of medieval, Renaissance music and of the baroque, as this way also in certain European folk genres.

Characteristics

The viola gives shrimp, which or�gen goes back to the medieval rebec, it was replaced by the violoncello in the modern band, although during the baroque one was still preserving it for the stretches soloists. His most habitual disposition was with six ropes, to which Marais added the seventh one in the serious one. It has mobile frets of intestine that stick to the diapason. For the curvature of his bridge and his multiple ropes, it is ideal for the execution of chords and arpeggioes. The viola d'amore is a miscellany of the viola it gives shrimp and the ancient lyre gives braccio, with tessitura of contralto and resonance ropes stretched down from the diapason. Also, there existed a bastard viola and a baritone (or staff viola) with nice ropes, to which also it was possible to pulsate with the thumb.

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Not satisfied with the use of his intrinsic instrument, the voice, like average only one of doing music, from the prehistoric times the man has conceived other means by means of the invention of producing elements of sound. Although many do not exist already, a considerable number of ancient instruments have survived.

Brief

On February 17, 1653: Arcangelo Corelli, musician and Italian composer is born. Grosso contributed to the crystallization of the concerto. Author of numerous instrumental works (Concert of Christmas, The Follia, sonatas), father of the sonata for violin and inspirer of a group of composers of this instrument like Varacini, Germiniani and Viotti.
On February 13, 1883: Richard Wagner dies in Venice. Composer of German origin, renovator of the romantic opera. His inclination towards the music did not wake up up to knowing the works of Weber and Beethoven. After a life lax and invested in the game and the women, he married and traveled to Paris and then to Dresden, where his work was recognized. The transfer of his remains was comparable to the funeral procession of a big sovereign one.
On February 13, 1976: the soprano Lily Pons dies. A voice crystalline and extended towards the sharp one, joined a graceful figure and personal friendliness, they constitute the props of the formidable success of Lily Pons. An exceeded publicity helped to do of her almost a sacred monster of the singing; so much it was so in the decade of '40 went so far as to consider her to be the best singer of the world.
On February 12, 1924: there is released "Rhapsody In Blue" of George Gershwin. Gershwin managed to unite in this work three fundamental elements of the music of his country: the piano popular tradition, the harmonic treatment of the music of the theater of varieties and all the ambience of the African American blues.
On February 10, 1881: I release in Paris of "The Stories of Hoffmann" of Jacques Offenbach. The opera is an adaptation of Jules Barbier and Michel Carr� of several stories of writer Ernst T.A. Hoffmann. The first one takes place with a mechanical doll, the second one with the victim of the conjuration of a magician, and the third one with a moribund sick person. The history begins with a prologue ambientado in a bar.

Appointments

Daniel Barenboim
"The director does not have physical contact with the music that his instrumentalists produce and at most he can correct the phrasing or the rhythm of the score but his gesture does not exist if it does not find a band that is receiving"
George Gershwin
"It would give everything what I have as a little of the genius that Schubert needed to compose his Ave Maria"
Gustav Mahler
"When the work turns out to be a success, when a problem has been solved, we forget the difficulties and the perturbations and feel richly rewarded"
Franz Schubert
"When one is inspired by something good, the musician is born fluently, the melodies sprout; really this is a big satisfaction"
Bedrich Smetana
"With the help and the God's grace, I will be a Mozart in the composition and a Liszt in the skill"

MULTIMEDIA

Falstaff

Giuseppe Verdi
Symphony N� 1 "Cl�sica"

Sergei Prokofiev
Vissi d' art

Renata Tebaldi (Floria Tosca)
Study N� 12

Frederic Chopin

Interpreters

Musicians

Astor Piazzolla

Piazzolla represents one of the rarest cases in which an author is unrolled of extraordinary form so much in the world of the popular music, with his tangos of Buenos Aires, as in that of the refined or classic music. Called symphonic tango created a new genre renewing this way of decisive form the tango. If it is considered that the work of Piazzolla begins in 1946 with The desbande and concludes in 1990, with Him grand tango and with Five tango sensations, that the same year records with the quartet of ropes Kronos, it is deduced that it covers 46 years, space in which it produced not less than eight hundred works.

Voices

Carlos Gardel

Carlos Gardel is perhaps the biggest myth of the Argentina. His artistic skill, his incomparable talent as singer of the suburbs of Buenos Aires, his musical instinct to compose some of the biggest tangos of all the times, his marvelous character, his fanaticism for the careers, have led him to being equalled perhaps only by another legend of the country of the south of the Silver: Eva Per�n. Nevertheless, while all political activity can be worth of objections, comments and mistrust on the part of certain sectors of the population, the figure of Carlos Gardel is erected as universally for all the Argentinians and the followers of the tango across the world.

Paris, on February 16

Juan Jos� Mosalini: the soul of the bandone�n beats in Paris

The music and the dance of the River Plate came to the margins of the Seine more than one century ago, seducing the French, but Juan Jos� Mosalini lives through the tango now a real explosion in France, of the hand of some of his contemporary teachers, like the bandoneonista. In an interview with the AFP in Paris, before traveling to Argentina, where it will offer two concerts, and from which it will set off then in the direction of China, Mosalini evoked "passionate and unconditional" relation between Paris and the tango and between he and the bandone�n, which came to his hands when it was a chiquil�n.

Granada, on February 16

International festival tango Granada dedicates his XXII edition to Carlos Gardel

75 anniversary of the death of the singer and tanguista Carlos Gardel will lead XXII edition of the International Festival of Tango of Granada, which also will organize several parallel activities between which there are holidays of trasnoche, tango in the university or an exhibition. Between the artists who will take part in three forms of the festival - dance, set of instruments and sung - there is Leo Sujatovich, Cristian Z�rate and the Japanese couple of dance Kyoto and Hiros Yamao.

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