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violins
Title: violins
Category: Arts & Humanities
Details: Words: 974 | Pages: 4.1 (approximately 235 words/page)
violins
Construction and Playing
The main parts of the violin are the front, also called the belly, top, or soundboard, usually
made of well-seasoned spruce; the back, usually made of well-seasoned maple; and the ribs,
neck, fingerboard, pegbox, scroll, bridge, tailpiece, and f-holes, or soundholes (see
illustration). The front, back, and ribs are joined together to form a hollow sound box. The
sound box contains the sound post, a thin, dowel-like stick of wood wedged inside …showed first 75 words of 974 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 974 total…David
Oistrakh.
Among composers of major solo and chamber works for the violin are Bach, Wolfgang
Amadeus Mozart, and Ludwig van Beethoven in the baroque and classical eras; the Austrian
Franz Schubert, the Germans Johannes Brahms, Felix Mendelssohn, and Robert Schumann,
and the Russian Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky in the romantic era; and the French Claude Debussy,
the Austrian Arnold Schoenberg, the Hungarian Béla Bartók, and the Russian-born Igor
Stravinsky in the 20th century.
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