When he was a boy at the Lyceum of Bologna, he got up a quartet of stringed instruments, and superintended the production of some important orchestral pieces.
Hautboys and bassoons were the first wind instruments admitted into Italian orchestras to vary the monotony inseparable from the use of stringed instruments alone.
For this the orchestra (at first only the whole body of stringed instruments) was made use of, and accompanied the alternations of emotion with corresponding musical phrases or interludes.
It appears natural that the German violinists, with their feeling for full harmony, should have cultivated the art of double-stopping on stringed instruments, rather than that of pure melody and tone.
The capability of tension of the Quint string was consequently the guide for the pitch in tuning the lute--beyond this there was as yet no normal pitch--and in stringed instruments it was in every case so maintained.
From the foregoing remarks it will be perceived that it is a question not of one kind, but of a whole family of stringed instruments.
For the music director, on my stringed instruments.
Prehistoric origin of stringed instruments, in spite of extant relics, is a matter of conjecture.
The varieties of tone of the instruments among each other, and of each in different keys, further increases their capacity for expression, the nuances of tone-colouring appearing to belong to the nature of stringed instruments.
The value which Mozart set upon the uniformity of the naturally beautiful sound effects of stringed instruments may be inferred from the fact that he seldom attempted interference with it as a device for pleasing the ear.
That which distinguishes the sound of the flute and of its shorter form, the fife, from that of stringed instruments is primarily the greater intensity and the longer duration of the tone.
Of earlier origin, no doubt, are stringed instruments.
The band consisted of stringed instruments, wind instruments, and instruments of percussion.
Meanwhile it may suffice to say that it was to this company of practically-trained musicians that the rising young composer owed his knowledge of the efficient use of stringed instruments.
First of all come the three Trios for stringed instruments, Op.
The unnatural rage now prevalent to transplant even pianoforte pieces to stringed instruments, instruments so utterly opposite to each other in all respects, ought to come to an end.
One fine day the annual volume was found to contain a cantata in several parts written for a contralto solo accompanied by stringed instruments, oboes and an organ obligato.
At the time there were many amateurs who played on stringed instruments.
The directions in Mozart's and Beethoven's works show that they used the execution of stringed instruments as their model.
Recitative and Aria, “Che vuoi mio cor,” for a Contralto, accompanied by Stringed Instruments.
Concerto for the Violin, with accompaniment of Stringed Instruments, in D minor.
It is, however, upon turning to the dissertation on the invention and improvement of stringed instruments by John Gunn, published in 1793, that we first find a lucid account of Eastern influence in connection with bowed instruments.
At length domestic music began to be zealously cultivated in Germany and the Low Countries, to which important circumstance the rapid development of stringed instruments is traceable.
The compositions of this master, which have been of marked importance in connection with the progress of stringed instruments, are characterized by a noble sweetness, a genuine pathos, deep science and great nicety of art.
Doubtless, with all his amiable qualities, Sir William had something of the obstinacy which belongs so closely to evil-doers on stringed instruments; doubtless there was no deterring him from "the uneven tenor of his way.
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