Composer or Director: Frederick Delius, Edward Elgar, Olivier Messiaen, Alexander Scriabin, Traditional, Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Edvard Grieg, Robert Schumann ...
‘Some of the colour is meant to be no more than a vague wash against which the solo cello defines itself.’ He went on to speak of ‘that poignant simplicity that has come upon Elgar’s music ...
It's a close cousin of the violin, viola, and double bass. The cello can be played as a solo instrument, as well as in chamber music ensembles, string orchestras, as a member of the string section of ...
POLLACK, HOWARD 2008. From the New World: Victor Herbert and His Second Cello Concerto. Journal of the Society for American Music, Vol. 2, Issue. 01, ...
There are more strings in the orchestra than all the other instruments put together, and they are very often at the heart of the music. The cello looks like a violin - but bigger. You couldn't ...
[Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn] In the warm piano melodies and the melancholic cello performance, Hu Defu, a pioneer of Taiwan folk music, better known as Ara Kimbo, was reciting ...
The cello is a mechanically simple but acoustically complex instrument. (See Fig. 1.1.) The four tapered tuning pegs for adjusting the strings, tuned C–G–d–a, are made usually from hard rosewood ...