Music Informative Speech
Did you know that each time period has its own name called an era? The violin has come quite a long way since the beggining of its time. Music through the centuries has been changed time and time again, each era sacred to its particular style of music. The music aswell, as the people, welcome everyone to join in its beaty. Music is an open door for interpretation, some people find the camouflaged beauty in song. Music isn't just a bunch of notes and lyrics written on a piece of paper, it's stories traslated into the best way to tell them... songs. The violin is the most widely used of all the orchestial instruments. It is a stringed instrument played with a bow that is considered to have the most beautiful sound of all instruments. Some of the most well-known music owes part of its beauty to the violin. It can played in a full orchestra, or it can have one player who mastered its sound give the audience the same feeling as if it had been the full orchestra. While we are certain musicians have used stringed instuments for very long time, it is still uncertain when they began using a bow. Some records show that the Chines may have begun the use of the bow in the A.D. 900's on guitar-like instruements called mandibles which was a cousin the violin.
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Members of the Amati family made fine instuments in the late 1500's. Antonio Stradivarios perfected the violin and produced some the the best violins ever made. His violin are price on average $10,000- $80,000, but some have sold for much more. A Frenchman, Francois Tourte, made the bow lighter and more movable in the late 1700's. More recently, the violin has taken on a new form, the electric violin. The electric violin has the same fundamentals as the accoustic does, except the electric is made of different matterials and is hooked up to an
Members of the Amati family made fine instuments in the late 1500's. Antonio Stradivarios perfected the violin and produced some the the best violins ever made. His violin are price on average $10,000- $80,000, but some have sold for much more. A Frenchman, Francois Tourte, made the bow lighter and more movable in the late 1700's. More recently, the violin has taken on a new form, the electric violin. The electric violin has the same fundamentals as the accoustic does, except the electric is made of different matterials and is hooked up to an