VIOLIN Definition & Meaning

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violin

[ vahy-uh-lin ]

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noun

the treble instrument of the family of modern bowed instruments, held nearly horizontal by the player's arm with the lower part supported against the collarbone or shoulder.
a violinist or part for a violin.

violin

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noun

a bowed stringed instrument, the highest member of the violin family, consisting of a fingerboard, a hollow wooden body with waisted sides, and a sounding board connected to the back by means of a soundpost that also supports the bridge. It has two f-shaped sound holes cut in the belly. The instrument, noted for its fine and flexible tone, is the most important of the stringed instruments. It is held under the chin when played. Range: roughly three and a half octaves upwards from G below middle C

violin

The most familiar and highest-pitched instrument of the strings . A typical symphony orchestra has more than two dozen violinists.

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51�Թ� History and Origins

Origin of violin¹

1570–80; < Italian violino, equivalent to viol ( a ) ( viola ¹ ) + -ino diminutive suffix

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51�Թ� History and Origins

Origin of violin¹

C16: from Italian violino a little viola, from viola ¹

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Cypress Hill even performs “Cuban Necktie,” a relentless song that gets even more intense with violins carrying B-Real’s cadence between bars.

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And so it began: Mr. Ayers with a violin that was missing two strings, trying to get back on track three decades after illness forced him out of New York’s prestigious Juilliard School.

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But in the world of music, it’s like, “This violin is 100 years old. This piano is 200 years old.”

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So there’s violins, there’s harpsichord, there’s harps — there’s a lot in the arrangements that make it feel older or classic or something.

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Schnittke praised the work as "perhaps the most important violin concerto of the 20th Century".

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