First of all Baroque music has completely different instruments, the baroque orchestra was tiny it consisted of a harpsichord, a viola, a violin and a violin cello. If you listen to the hallelujah chorus from handels messiah you can hear the terraced dynamics which were used in that era. If you then listen to a song by Jay Z it is pretty easy to tell the difference
The difference is less than you might think. The body of the instrument is the same -- indeed instruments made in the 17th century by Amati, Stradivarius, and others have always remained in favor. Originally those instruments would have been held between the player's calves; the endpin is a more modern invention. The size of the instrument was also less standardized; some particularly small instruments, known as the cello da spalla, were even held on the shoulder like a violin or viola (roughly speaking), although they were tuned like a normal cello.
A baroque cello is strung with gut strings, and the lower strings were often wrapped with silver. A modern instrument is usually strung with steel or steel-wrapped nylon strings. A baroque bow arches outward (away from the hairs), while a modern bow holds more hair and curves slightly inward. The modern designs allow both the bow and the strings to be strung at a higher tension.
There are subtle differences in construction, too. For instance, the neck of a modern instrument is more slender and more angled back from the instrument. Many older instruments were subsequently modified according to modern standards. A Baroque cello is therefore either an unmodified old instrument, an old instrument whose modernizations have been reversed, or a new instrument built to the original standards.
Finally, baroque and modern instruments have different associated performance practices. For example, a baroque instrument is typically played with less vibrato.
The bow for a baroque violin is differently curved, it is bend outwards to the hair (convex in shape) instead of convex like a modern bow.
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The VIOLIN is the highestest pitched, or 'TREBLE' member, of the VIOLIN Family and is related to the VIOLA and the VIOLONCELLO.( 'CELLO for short. )
The DOUBLE BASS is NOT related to the VIOLIN!The VIOLA is played exactly the same way as a VIOLIN but its strings are set to different, lower notes and its music written on a different type of CLEF(Key) However, the technique & finger positions are practically identical on the VIOLIN and VIOLA. Although the VIOLA is a little larger than the violin, in the easiest playing position, the first three fingers of the left hand hold down each string to play a different note.
The 'cello is the lowest pitched, or 'Bass' member, of the VIOLIN Family and although it is tuned like a VIOLA (but lower), its size means that the little finger on the left hand is required to reach the same note as the 3rd finger can reach on the VIOLA!
These instruments developed from medieval instruments called VIOLS which came in a number of sizes. By the 17th Century, composers were writing specifically for members of the VIOLIN family as their sound was clearer, sweeter and LOUDER!
THE DOUBLE BASS IS IN FACT A BASS VIOL. WITH ITS SLOPING SHOULDERS AND SHORTER ARCHED BOW IT IS THE ONLY VIOL STILL IN COMMON USE TODAY, ALTHOUGH MANY SPECIALISTS PLAY OLDER 15th CENTURY PIECES ON VIOLS.
THE DOUBLE BASS IS TUNED E A D G - these notes are just four tones apart.
THE REASON THAT I INSIST THAT THE DOUBLE BASS IS NOT RELATED TO THE VIOLIN IS THAT IT IS TUNED IN FOURTHS, NOT FIFTHS.MOST IMPORTANTLY, THE DOUBLE BASS IS A TYPE OF VIOL AND YOU MAY WISH TO READ ABOUT VIOLS ELSEWHERE! HOWEVER, BRIEFLY, IF YOU LOOK AT A VIOLIN, VIOLA & CELLO, THEY SHARE THE SAME CURVY SHAPE. NOW LOOK AT A DOUBLE BASS, IT HAS SLOPING SHOULDERS JUST LIKE THE OLD FASHIONED VIOLS!
There are a few key differences between the modern viola and its earlier ancestor, the baroque viola.
On the baroque viola, the neck is parallel to the body, while on the modern viola it is slightly more angled back. The finger board is shorter than the modern viola, and because of the straight neck angle, it stays closer to the body of the instrument. A shorter fingerboard means a smaller overall range of notes than on the modern viola. The bridge on the baroque viola is lower and can be thinner than on a modern viola. The tailpiece will have no fine tuners. The baroque viola is strung with two unwound sheep or beef gut strings for the A and D strings, and silver wound gut strings for the G and C strings. Gut strings have a distinctive sound-- warmer and quieter than modern viola strings which are made of synthetic (nylon) core wrapped in metal.
The baroque viola is set up with less tension than a modern viola (because of the lower bridge, type of strings, neck angle and tail piece. The bass bar and sound post, which are inside the viola and not easy to see, are also more delicate than on modern viola.) This results in an instrument that projects less loudly than a modern instrument.
The size of modern and baroque violas can vary, roughly between 15 and 18 inches for the body length. There is not one standardized measurement for either kind.
Many violas currently set up as "modern" violas may have started out their life as "baroque" instruments, if they were made in the late 17th to mid-18th centuries.
Conversely, several modern instruments, made in the 20th or 21st century are copies of baroque violas, and can be set up with historical strings and fittings to play baroque repertoire, or with modern fittings to play repertoire from the 19th century or later.
One last difference to keep in mind is that each kind of viola is played with its own kind of bow. The baroque bow is curved and often shorter than a modern bow. It has less horse hair, and weighs less than a modern bow, which has a straighter stick and longer length. Both use the same types of rosin.
A fiddle and a violin are the same thing.
A violin has strings. A fiddle has strangs. hahah
You can tune a violin, but you can't tune a tuna!
they're made in different countries
Violins are usually categorised by the type of wood that was used to create it. there's a roth violin, there's a German Violin, there's a Stradivarious (in my opinion i don't think that's a type), there's a french violin (that's the type I currently have), There's the Suzuki violin, there are electric violins, there's baroque which is any violin that was used during the baroque period, and i hoped that helped!
Most modern violins are made in factories rather than hand made. Unlike during the Classical, Romantic, and Baroque periods of music, now, people are less passionate about violin music, resulting in worse violins. The fingerboard was also slightly larger than modern violins.
A fiddle and a violin are the same thing.
If there is one instrument that represents orchestral music to the general public, itβs the violin. After all, you never see anyone sarcastically pantomiming a harp in mock pity, right? What most people outside the music world probably donβt know, however, is how many different types of violins there are. Here are few Types of Violins That Every Violinist Should Know Modern/classic violin. Electric Violins. Five-string violin. Semi-acoustic violin. Baroque violin. Hardanger Violin.
She has a Baroque violin, an electric one, and I think she has another one.
A violin has strings. A fiddle has strangs. hahah
You can tune a violin, but you can't tune a tuna!
they're made in different countries
Cello's in bass, Violin's in Treble.
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Baroque
Violins are usually categorised by the type of wood that was used to create it. there's a roth violin, there's a German Violin, there's a Stradivarious (in my opinion i don't think that's a type), there's a french violin (that's the type I currently have), There's the Suzuki violin, there are electric violins, there's baroque which is any violin that was used during the baroque period, and i hoped that helped!
It became popular during the baroque era until present times.