Violin 101
Famous Virtuosi
What Would A Virtuoso Do?
Techniques
Theory Who?
100
I am a stroke with a curved piece of wood with taut horsehair strands
What is a bow
100
One of the first true masters of the pre-recording age to make his mark in the sound studio. He lived from 1875 to 1962, and was known for a very polite, charming tone quality, not bombastic or forceful, but technically perfect, as if he were asking the audience’s permission to show off now and then.
What is Fritz Kreisler
100
I am playing a duet with duet with Itzach Perlman and I suddenly have a memory lapse. What do I do?
What is keep going / improv.
100
I am a technique of the left hand and arm in which the pitch of a note varies in a pulsating rhythm
What is vibrato
100
broken chord patterns in the left hand
What is alberti bass
200
I am the long piece of wood that sticks out from the body.
What is neck
200
He lived from 1782 to 1840, and traveled Europe leaving the public in abject awe after every recital. His influence on modern violin technique is more profound than any other.
What is Paganini
200
My E string has accidentally broken in the middle of my debut concert with the New York Philharmonic what do I do?
What is play on other strings
200
when stopped notes are played on two adjacent strings, producing a two-note harmony it is a ________.
What is double stop
200
first section repeated in whole or part at the end of the second section
What is rounded binary
300
I am located above the neck, where the pegs are inserted and the strings are attached.
What is pegbox
300
By far the greatest performer of the modern recording age. Born in 1901, died in 1987, he is one of the very few, if not the only one of, players who can hit the high note at the end of Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto and give it vibrato in the fifth of a second or so of its playing time.
What is Jascha Heiftez
300
I have 2 weeks to learn Barber Violin concerto, I can either practice all day everyday until then, or wing it.
What is practice everyday
300
Stopping the bow on the string deadening the vibrations and thus creating a muted accent
What is detache
300
melody switching of high to low note and vice versa, or in chords a with a different bass note
What is inversion
400
I build, design, and repair violins
What is luthier
400
He was born in 1653, and his spot on this list may make you ask, “How do you know how well he played?” Well, even today, almost every violinist can trace his or her performance training back to him. The techniques you hear performers using, fingering, bowing form and posture are all thanks to him. He was famous throughout western Europe in his own day as a performer of the highest order.
What is Antonio Corelli
400
I am at LAX on the way to play Mozart with the LA Philharmonic. I sit my violin down to get a drink of water, when I look back up, it is gone. Do I cancel the performance because I need my own violin to play, or the show must go on.
What is the show must go on
400
A bowstroke played rapidly in the middle of the bow, one bowstroke per note, so that the bow bounces very slightly off the string.
What is Sautillé
400
long note held in the bass with chord changes above
What is pedal point
500
The modern day style violin was first made near the start of the __________ Renaissance in the 1500s.
What is European
500
He is not an American Indian, as his name seems to suggest in English. He was Norwegian, and lived from 1810 to 1880, during which time he toured Europe concertizing with the likes of Franz Liszt, Clara (and Robert) Schumann, Felix Mendelssohn and others.
What is Ole Bull
500
A phone rings in the middle of my jazz performance, do I rant and have a fit towards the crown or keep playing with not reaction.
What is keep playing with no reaction
500
If the lower note employs a round note-head representing where the string is strongly stopped with the first finger, and the upper note uses an open diamond note-head representing where the string is lightly touched with the fourth finger it is a __________.
What is artificial harmonic
500
improvisational type of polyphony, simultaneous use of modified versions of the same melody
What is heretophony
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