General Terms
Define Musical Instrument
an object that is created or adapted to make musical sounds
The way brass instruments make sound
Buzzing into a mouthpiece
What are keys?
4 String instruments in order from Highest to Lowest
Violin, Viola, Cello, String Bass
Andrea Amati's Importance (2 things)
Standardized string instruments construction: Also Constructed 24 Violins for King Charles
4 main instrument groups
Woodwind, Brass, Percussion, and Strings
The way brass instruments change pitch
Pressing valves or using a slide (Trombone)
How sound is made on a flute
What is blowing across the tone hole?
Place where early string instruments were discovered
Mesopotamian Dig Sites
Stradavari's importance
Best Luthier, Made over 1000 violins
wood, bone, animal skins
Two types of valves
Piston and Rotary
Single vs Double Reed instruments
Single Reeds have one read that vibrates against a mouthpiece, Double reeds have a double reed.
Two popular families of string instruments in the 15th and 16th centuries: AND what do their names mean?
Viola da Gamba (Foot), Viola da Braccio (Arm)
2 virtuoso Violin Players
Niccolo Paganini, Antonio Vivaldi
Materials that instruments are made from now
Wood, Metal, plastic
3 parts of brass mouthpiece
Rim, Cup, Shank
Name the 5 woodwind Instruments we discussed
Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Saxophone, Bassoon
4 earliest string instruments were the ____ (hint: Popular in greek mythology)
Lyres of Ur
Name the 3 main SCHOOLS of violin construction
which is the most influential?
Brescia, Linarolo, Cremona
Define String Instrument
A musical instrument that has strings and that produces sound when the strings are touched or struck.
Name the 5 Brass instruments we discussed.
Trumpet, French Horn, Trombone, Euphonium/Baritone, Tuba
Years of the golden age of violin Making
1600-1750
3 Families that were part of the Cremona School
Amati, Guarneri, Stradivari