The word “sinfonia” refers to baroque works for chamber orchestra but also to the old Italian term for a hurdy-gurdy, a medieval stringed instrument with constant, wheezing drones that are ...

Norwegian violinist Henning Kraggerud plays Vivaldi's Four Seasons at the Whyte Recital Hall, RIAM, Dublin on 10 April, ...

as well as stringed instruments and percussion. All group members also sang in vocal pieces and dressed in colourful period costumes made by Winnie. In 1976 the Waits received the top award in the ...

He has built more than 10 of the instruments, ranging from fiddle and string instruments to horns ... involves first researching the earliest Scandinavian songs and some early medieval songs. Then he ...

Spectators can expect traditional elements such as yodeling, alphorns (alpine wind instruments, similar to the Romanian bucium) and dulcimers (medieval stringed instruments, similar to the dulcimer).

Stringed instruments played with a bow, such as members of the viol family and the lira da braccio (an instrument similar to the medieval fiddle), and wind instruments, mostly in the form of recorders ...

Sure the flutes and pipes are perhaps a little too pious and medieval ... to add a string quartet as backing. The success of Yesterday had a profound musical impact on The Beatles, who would soon ...

The instrument, also known as the Old Lady or ... Claustrophobic and deranged, the medieval fantasy world of the artist was brought to life with startling success. The reference to the “quaere ...

The jam is an opportunity for players of all stringed instruments to get together and “sup, sip and strum” together, the release states. Players of all levels and all varieties of stringed ...

Anyone who plays guitar, ukulele, banjo, fiddle, mandolin or any other string instrument is invited to meet the second Monday of every month. The first session kicked off March 24. Song charts ...

The importance of tuning and maintaining strings is also discussed. Keywords string instruments, sound production, physics of sound, pitch, koto, sitar, American mountain music, tuning, cultural music ...