Category: String figures

String figures may also involve the use of the mouth, wrist, and feet.

String figures have also been used for divination, such as to predict the sex of an unborn child.

" String figures are probably one of humanity's oldest games, and is spread among an astonishing variety of cultures, even ones as unrelated as Europeans and the Dayaks of Indonesia ; Alfred Wallace who, while traveling in Borneo in the 1800s, thought of amusing the Dayak youths with a novel game with string, was in turn very surprised when they proved to be familiar with it, and showed him some figures and transitions that he hadn ’ t previously seen.

String figures were widely studied by anthropologists like James Hornell from the 1880s through around 1900, as they were used in attempts to trace the origin and developments of cultures.

String figures, once thought to have proven monogenesis, appear to have arisen independently as an entertainment pastime in many societies.

One of the first methods of recording figures and sets of terminology was " A Method of Recording String Figures and Tricks " by W. H. R. Rivers and A. C. Haddon.

* Magazines Ficelles, " String Magazines " with many figures in English.

Category: String figures

Category: String figures

Category: String figures

His manifest love of chamber music has resulted in collaborations with major musical figures including Astor Piazzolla, Frank Peter Zimmermann, Ernö Sebestien, Regis Pasquier, Hatto Beyerle, Philippe Müller, Leo Brouwer, Alcides Lanza, Terry Riley, Tracy Silverman, Maureen Forrester, Eduardo Fernandez, the Cherubini Quartet and the Turtle Island String Quartet, and he has also worked with conductors such as Pinchas Steinberg, Charles Dutoit, Wojciech Rajski, Mario Bernardi and Yannick Nezet-Séguin.

The first piece to show clear signs of this new interest is the String Quartet No. 1 in A minor ( 1908 ), which contains folk-like elements.

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26, and the Piano Quintet which alludes to Schubert's String Quintet and Grand Duo for piano four hands.

In 1967 the Incredible String Band's The 5000 Spirits or the Layers of the Onion developed their folk music into full blown psychedelia, which would be a major influence on psychedelic rock.

String theory can be formulated in terms of an action principle, either the Nambu-Goto action or the Polyakov action, which describe how strings propagate through space and time.

String theory includes both open strings, which have two distinct endpoints, and closed strings making a complete loop.

* Sweeney Todd, the Barber of Fleet Street: or the String of Pearls ( c. 1865 ), a dramatic adaption written by Frederick Hazleton which premiered at the Old Bower Saloon, Stangate Street, Lambeth.

In December 1926 Adorno's " Two Pieces for String Quartet ," op. 2 were performed in Vienna, which provided a welcome interruption from his preparations for the Habilitation.

Back in Argentina, Piazzolla formed his Orquesta de Cuerdas ( String Orchestra ), which performed with the singer Jorge Sobral, and his Octeto Buenos Aires in 1955.

They include the operas Owen Wingrave ( 1970 ) and Death in Venice ( 1971 – 1973 ), the Suite on English Folk Tunes " A Time There Was " ( 1974 ) and Third String Quartet ( 1975 )— which drew on material from Death in Venice — as well as the dramatic cantata Phaedra ( 1975 ), written for Janet Baker.

These works include Violin and String Quartet ( 1985, around 2 hours ), For Philip Guston ( 1984, around four hours ) and, most extreme, the String Quartet II ( 1983, which is over six hours long without a break.

Crumb often plays mandolin with Eden and John's East River String Band and has drawn three covers for them: 2009's " Drunken Barrel House Blues ," 2008's " Some Cold Rainy Day ," and 2011's " Be Kind To A Man When He's Down " which he also plays mandolin on.

In 2011 he drew his third album cover for Eden and John's East River String Band " Be Kind To A Man When He's Down ", on which he also plays mandolin.

Other famous examples of the genre include Maurice Ravel's Berceuse sur le nom de Gabriel Fauré for violin and piano ; the Berceuse élégiaque by Ferruccio Busoni ; the Berceuse from the opera Jocelyn by Benjamin Godard ; the Berceuse by Igor Stravinsky which is featured in the Firebird ballet, and Lullaby for String Quartet by George Gershwin.

The First String Quartet No. 1 in G minor ( 1889 ) was innovative in the " Résumé " section which Nielsen included in the finale, bringing together themes from the first, third and fourth movements.

Henry Cowell adopted Ives ’ s ideas during the 1930s, in such works as the Mosaic Quartet ( String Quartet No. 3, 1934 ), which allows the players to arrange the fragments of music in a number of different possible sequences.

Internationally he is best known for his opera The Bartered Bride, for the symphonic cycle Má vlast (" My Fatherland "), which portrays the history, legends and landscape of the composer's native land, and for his First String Quartet From My Life.

Other major works composed in these years were the E minor String Quartet, From My Life, a series of Czech dances for piano, several choral pieces and three more operas: The Kiss, The Secret and The Devil's Wall, all of which received their first performances between 1876 and 1882.

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Life on a String, appeared in 2001, by which time she signed a new contract with another Warner Music label, Nonesuch Records.

In 1939 the Finzis moved to Ashmansworth, near Newbury, where he founded the Newbury String Players, an amateur chamber orchestra which he conducted until his death, reviving eighteenth century string music as well as giving premieres of works by his contemporaries, and offering chances of performance for talented young musicians such as Julian Bream and Kenneth Leighton.

The String Quartet in E ( 1903 ), which later was worked into the orchestral tone poem Cathaleen-Ni-Houlihan ( 1905 ), is a fine example of how he began to reflect Ireland in his music.

The works for which he is best known are the Concerto for Double String Orchestra, the oratorio A Child of Our Time and the Fantasia Concertante on a Theme of Corelli.

Notable examples of this period are Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta ( 1936 ) and Divertimento for String Orchestra BB 118 ( 1939 ).

String theory requires that, in addition to the three spatial dimensions we observe, there exist additional dimensions that are curled up or compactified ( see also Kaluza-Klein theory ).

Antonín Dvořák's String Quintet in G major, Op. 77 and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Serenade in G major, K. 525 (" Eine kleine Nachtmusik ") are the most popular pieces in this repertoire, along with works by Darius Milhaud, Luigi Boccherini ( 3 quintets ), Harold Shapero, and Paul Hindemith.

String theories are quantum theories of gravity in the sense that they reduce to classical general relativity plus field theory at low energies, but are fully quantum mechanical, contain a graviton, and are believed to be mathematically consistent.

String theorists have found strong evidence that the two theories are really the same, even away from the extremely strong and extremely weak limits, but they do not yet have a proof strong enough to satisfy mathematicians.

Four of these instruments are now played by the Tokyo String Quartet.

String theory posits that the electrons and quarks within an atom are not 0-dimensional objects, but made up of 1-dimensional strings.

String theories that include fermionic vibrations are now known as superstring theories ; several kinds have been described, but all are now thought to be different limits of M-theory.

" Dickens then developed this in Martin Chuzzlewit ( 1843-4 ) published two years before the appearance of Sweeney Todd in The String of Pearls ( 1846-7 ), with a character called Tom Pinch, who is grateful that his own " evil genius did not lead him into the dens of any of those preparers of cannibalic pastry, who are represented in many country legends as doing a lively retail business in the metropolis ".

Common interpretations of " SNOBOL " are ' String Oriented Symbolic Language ' or ( as a quasi-initialism ) ' StriNg Oriented symBOlic Language '.

* Music: Mozart's " Haydn " String Quartets are published.

* String threading, where operations are identified by strings, usually looked-up by a hash table.

The uniquely 19th-century French sensibilities of Fauré and Chabrier are reflected in Sérénade grotesque, Pavane pour une infante défunte, and Menuet antique, while pieces such as Jeux d ' eau, and the String Quartet in F owe something to the innovations of Satie and Debussy.

String instruments are musical instruments that produce sound from vibrating strings.

String instruments are tuned by varying the strings ' tension because adjusting length or mass per unit length is impractical.

A few examples of this selection are Črt Sojar Voglar's Bird Tango ( for three piccolos and piano ), a Quintet for Piccolo and String Quartet by Graham Waterhouse, and Martin Rokeach's Nocturne ( for piccolo, strings and harp ).

The Whitetop Mountain Band, The New Ballards Branch Bogtrotters, The Wolfe Brothers String Band, and the Konnarock Critters are among many of the best known old time bands of the area.

They have cited several acts that have influenced their work, including Joni Mitchell, The Incredible String Band (" we have all the String Band records our rural sensibilities are similar "), The Beatles (" really became enthralling to us through their psychedelism ") and My Bloody Valentine (" even if we don't sound like them, there's a connection in terms of the approach to music ").

A large faculty teaches student attendees, and master classes are offered by the likes of Eroica Trio, St. Petersburg String Quartet, violinist Alexander Gilman, violist Lech Antonio Uszynski, and soprano Dominika Zamara.

After the First Symphony, his style became less severely linear, but his continuing love of fugue can be seen in works such as the Third String Quartet, where three out of the five movements are fugal, and the Fantasia Concertante on a Theme of Corelli.