Flautist

Music is something we all enjoy and love listening to. It has shaped this country and the world as we know it. It is important we take a step back and examine how music of all types makes us feel. Histoire du Tango is a piece written for flute and guitar by Astor Piazolla (1921-1992). This piece of of music is very wonderful to listen to. The genre is classic tango but has hints of modernism with the way the composer wrote the piece. Piazolla is a big fan of using the guitar to play a rhythm on the body of the guitar. The flute for the most part is always playing lyrically and with as much musicality as possible. The use of vibrato and body movements was key in order for the musicians to really let us know the mood of the piece. The piece at time gets very saddening but then with in a few measures the entire timbre and feeling of the piece will completely change. When we talk about Rousseau ushering in music and stories and I think “Histoire du Tango” really holds that to be true. Throughout the piece the story can get very sad but yet very bright and happy. The beginning starts with flute playing a motif: Short; Shorter; Shorter; Long The motif it comes up occasionally throughout the course of the piece. It is definitely mood setting. In my opinion the guitar rarely gets the melody. He is more of a replacement of the piano than a soloist instrument. He does have some fun moments but mostly when that takes place he is not being accompanied by the flute but rather playing…

is also related to the Alexander Technique. “The Biomechanics of Music Performance” aims to detail the recommended playing positions and related techniques based on multidisciplinary sources including body mapping, physical therapy, ergonomics, and others. This study demonstrates to musicians why body mapping and the recommended positions for holding instruments are effective, specifically focusing on the flute and the oboe. The goal is to provide information and understanding to prevent bad…

The video called Raptor’s Rapture was configured in 2012 by Allora and Calzadilla for the show Intervals. The video features Bernadette Käfer, a flautist specializing in prehistoric instruments, as she attempts to play the oldest musical instrument found to date. The instrument is a 35,000 year old flute that was carved from the wing of a griffon vulture, which is currently on the endangered species list. Through the video Käfer discovers the ancient sound of the flute with a live griffon…

What is a woodwind instrument? The woodwind instruments are instruments that produce sound as a result of air flowing through them. Instruments that belong to this family include the oboe, clarinet, saxophone, bassoon and flute. While all of the other instruments mentioned are actually classified as reed instruments because that is the way that the air flows through them, the flute is an instrument that makes its sound from air being blown across an opening. The openings are closed or kept open…

• kitsuke / surihaku (short-sleeved kimono, worn as the innermost layer of the costume of a female character), • and a fan For the second part the Nochi-shite Sakuragawa keeps the “kazura” and the “kazura-obi”, “surihaku”, and the fan, but the changes are: • mizugoromo (a type of knee-length kimono), • koshimaki / nuihaku (a type of kimono), • koshi-obi (belt) • Holding a net in hand (Kinishita, Akira). (http://www.the-noh.com/en/plays/data/detail_039.html) 4.4 Dances…

Biographical Christian Cannabich, who was the son of the flautist and composer Friedrich Cannabich was born in Mannheim in 1731. A pupil of Johann Stamitz, Christian Cannabich entered the Mannheim court orchestra as a 'scholar' at the age of 12 (1744) and in 1746 he was formerly chosen as a violinist. The Elector Carl Theodor contracted him an electoral salary to study in Italy and in the fall of 1750, he then started a course of training with Jommelli in Rome where he endured until 1753. He…

At the end of my sixth grade school year, I received an audition packet for chair placements. I knew I had a shot at getting first chair, since all of the flautists above me last year had graduated, so I resolved to work as hard as I possibly could on the packet. The day I got my packet, I went home and immediately made a “practice calendar”, which I hung on my wall. I told myself that in order to get first chair, I would have to practice every single day. I knew it wouldn’t be easy, but I…

performed a variety of repertoire from the 1600’s to the present both solo and in an ensemble. They played pieces with multiple movements such as Concerto IV by J.B. de Boismortier and pieces without multiple movements such as Canzone by Samuel Barber. I enjoyed the variety of the concert the most because there were multiple performers and styles of music from many genres to keep the audience engaged. My favorite piece was one played by Brianna Bount, The Pied Piper by Gordon Jacob, because it…

Auto-Tune In the reading “Seduced by ‘Perfect’ pitch: How Auto- Tune Conquered Pop Music” the reading had many main points for example does society like auto-tune, for some they don’t mind artists using auto-tune but some of the older generations do because they listened to music before there was such a thing called Auto- Tune they can pick it more then todays generation can. Auto- Tune was created by Dr. Andy Hildebrand who is a classically trained flautist, who spend most of his younger days…

local music store, purchased a gleaming Yamaha model, and then enrolled myself in the prided core activity at Waseca High School. With high hopes, I set forward on a venture that would undoubtedly test my limitations. The struggle I encountered, though, was greater than what was anticipated. As Labor Day neared, my enthusiasm grew. The first day of school meant the first band rehearsal, where I would finally get the opportunity to play somewhere other than in the solidarity of my bedroom. When…