And the background music totally had the bells and chimes and violins and cellos and soft brass going. |
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When he died in 1992, Cage had not completed One, which apparently was scored for cello with three prerecorded cellos. |
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Matteo Ricci had brought with him a spinet, other Jesuits brought violins and flutes, cellos and bassoons and manuals on music styles. |
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We began to find new pickups and microphone systems for the cellos that allowed us to be loud without feedback. |
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The tutti strangeness is that of an orchestra without violas and cellos, but in which double basses, contrabassoon and piccolos are prominent. |
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More than 250 years after his death, Antonio Stradivari's violins and cellos are the best in the world. |
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I suggested stringendo applied to all the strings, while accelerando was just for the cellos. |
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Natalie was joined by the tenor Matthew Beale, whose very attractive, mellow sound combined attractively with solo flute, cellos and violins. |
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There are electronic flourishes all over this record, alongside organs, cellos and pianos. |
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Nothing is left alone, as strings sigh, saxophones parp and cellos moan on Lerche's quest to shove everything into this pop odyssey. |
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The trumpets were next to the flutes, and the French horns behind the cellos. |
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Not knowing which of them wrote what, I can only report that the pit contained two cellos, one double-bass, solo woodwind, brass and timpani. |
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When all four cellos enter using bows, the texture and performance practices suggest a classical string quartet. |
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Perversely, the massed violins, violas and cellos can sometimes sound uncannily like a lone synthesiser. |
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Eight violins, two violas, two cellos, one double bass, and a harpsichord are used on this recording. |
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In the 1812 Overture, Karajan has a famous Russian choir intone the Russian Orthodox hymn normally given to violas and cellos. |
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As for cellos or bows, I really can't think anyone could buy one, sight unseen. |
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The melody slid smoothly along, minor chords predominating, building on a soft, tentative base of gentle violins and cellos. |
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Pizzicato is when violins, violas, or cellos are played without the bow by plucking the strings sharply. |
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Among the strings, there are twelve violins, two violas, four cellos, and two double basses. |
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The bows of the cellos, violins and double-basses seem to caress your heart strings and not those of their instruments. |
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There are no cellos, a disproportionately large number of double-basses, and big brass and wind sections but no oboes and bassoons. |
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They hope to take partygoers into the night with a medley of violins, violas, cellos and trumpets. |
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And they sing and play oboes and clarinets and violins and cellos and recorders on through the late afternoon in a warm, close auditorium. |
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Two thirds of the children had some musical experience and those with orchestral skills played violins, clarinets, cellos, flutes and saxophones. |
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The central trio, quite unusually, features a solo on the cornet, taken up by the cellos. |
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Today its cellos and basses are half Asian, its violas and violins predominantly Asian, and its three associate concert masters Chinese. |
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These are usually the kids with violins or cellos who struggle to keep upright when the train is moving. |
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Almost every instrument — including violins, cellos and pianos — is plugged into one wall socket or another. |
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There were pocket-sized boxes for the piccolos, a wheeled-trolley for the harp and knobbly trunks, all barnacled in stickers, for the cellos. |
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Trumpets announce the fourth movement with a series of variations on a theme of folkloric inspiration, introduced once more by the cellos. |
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On this recording, there are nine violins, three violas, three cellos, a double bass, one flute, three oboes, one bassoon, three trumpets, a set of timpani, and a harpsichord. |
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Messagesquisse, a contemporary work for seven cellos by Pierre Boulez, an extension of Stravinsky's neoclassicism, opens the program. |
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The bucolic trio features the solo clarinet and horns, while the cellos sketch an intricate counterpoint in arpeggiated triplets. |
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The piece, scored for 10 violins, five violas, five cellos, and three double basses, seems to me to be a summation of post-war hope and grief. |
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A brief, jaunty, martial tune in the clarinets leads immediately into the yearning melody sung by cellos. |
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Nonetheless, when the strings were together, we were treated to a wonderful tremolo in the cellos, beginning as a mere susurrus, then pouring forth into a majestic sound. |
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From it flowered a variety of musical instruments including guitars, balalaikas, violins and cellos. |
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The first movement begins with a gentle melancholy melody for the cellos, more or less playing the role of narrators of the work. |
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Only violins, violas and cellos last hundreds of years if well looked after. |
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A decade ago he converted a former town hall into a unique workshop for turning out violins, violas and cellos to match the world's finest. |
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Their imaginative style is reminiscent of seventies progressive rock, backed up by the use of flutes, cellos and vintage keyboards. |
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One of my favourites is a band called Apocalyptica, famous for playing Metallica with four cellos. |
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Many of the respectable 200 years old cellos circulating in the auction sales have attracted my attention. |
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Other instruments, such as double basses, cellos and tubas will be rented at the expense of the orchestras. |
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Originally scored for voice and an orchestra of cellos, this particular work comes from a group of nine suites. |
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Anchored to the three repetitions of the theme assigned to the cellos and particularly embellished, this movement ends in a joyful mood. |
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Vector Instruments specializes in electric violins, cellos and upright basses, which are sold in over 30 countries around the globe. |
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Everything was first written and played with midi synthetizers to imitate the sounds of violins, cellos and other instruments. |
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A Little Night Music is a serenade for strings-violins, violas, cellos, and double basses. |
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Benjamin Hudson, the solo violinist in the Haydn concerto that opened the evening, splendidly carried forward the tragic final interplay between violins and cellos. |
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One would think that all those cellos would produce a thick, tubby sound, but Boulez's rhythmic and contrapuntal virtuosity keep the music lively and athletic. |
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It runs as a polyphonic symphony compared to the simple percussion section of the heart or the synchronized cellos of the liver. |
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String groupings of violins and cellos swell throughout and voice aching, mournful melodies, the piano occasionally joined by a celeste or glockenspiel. |
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As this wood is very elastic and resilient, it was used for making longbows and became the preferred wood species for the back of violins, cellos and guitars. |
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Jimi Hendrix experimented with the sounds and effects that amplifier distortion offered, Led Zeppelin used violins and cellos in their music, and the legacy of Bach lives on. |
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Over a sustained pianissimo tremolo in the violins, the cellos unveil a broad first theme over twenty measures, making it one of the longest opening themes in the symphonic repertoire. |
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Apocalyptica, a Finnish quartet, plays Metallica with four cellos and, although the result is quite different from the original pieces, it is both interesting and enjoyable to listen to. |
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Seventeenth-century pochettes, 300 year-old violins and huge overbearing cellos litter the room. |
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But the strings alone also create a problem, for the lowest part is specifically assigned to double bass, which presumes that cellos would play the same line with the basses and sound an octave lower than written. |
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They are cellos where soy sauces and salt are violins. |
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The day of the Vivaldi concert has arrived and the children stroll into the Friary – scrawny, scally, mischievous – and scratch out a square dance with gusto on their violins and what seem to be hugely outsized cellos. |
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With an orchestra led by Florence Malgoire Francece's Monica Huggett – this concert should have scintillated, but a thick seam of cellos, viol and double basses made heavy work of Campra's Exaudiat te Dominus. |
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One of the most ravishing passages in the whole concerto is the Intermezzo's central episode featuring cellos in a theme of soaring lyricism and romantic passion. |
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Bassoons, cellos, and basses crawl through the lower register. |
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I have two cellos that I have brought with me from South Africa. |
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Most of the melodic material of the symphony derives from a single motif, heard in the opening bars in the somber colors of low cellos and basses. |
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After entering an international competition of the Violin Society of America, one of his cellos beat out 234 competitors to win the only gold medal for an instrument. |
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Work for oboe, clarinet, 3 cellos and 4 percussion. |
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