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They include two concertos for pianoforte, one in C major and one in B flat major, ( both 1773 ); a concerto for organ in C Major in two movements, ( the middle movement is missing from the autograph score, or perhaps, it was an improvised organ solo ) ( also 1773 ); two concertante works: a concerto for oboe, violin and cello in D major ( 1770 ), and a flute and oboe concerto in C major ( 1774 ).
Opus 70 is a set of two Piano Trios by Ludwig van Beethoven, written for piano, violin, and cello.
97, by Ludwig van Beethoven is a piano trio for piano, violin, and cello, finished in 1811.
The cello ( ; plural cellos or celli ) is a bowed string instrument with four strings tuned in perfect fifths.
A person who plays a cello is called a cellist.
The name cello is an abbreviation of the Italian violoncello, which means " little violone ", referring to the violone (" big viol "), the lowest-pitched instrument of the viol family, the group of string instruments that went out of fashion around the end of the 17th century in most countries except France, where they survived another half-century or so before the louder violin family came into greater favour in that country too.
It is now customary to use the name " cello " without the apostrophe and as a full designation.
The double bass's proportions are dissimilar to those of the violin and cello ; for example, it is deeper ( the distance from top to back is proportionally much greater than the violin ).
This endpin is generally more robust than that of a cello, because of the greater mass of the double bass.
This technique — also used on the cellois called thumb position.
These parts are usually given to the cello section because it is a smaller instrument and are typically tuned together.
There is a small body of works written for piano quintet with the instrumentation of piano, violin, viola, cello, and double bass.
" The Elephant " from Camille Saint-Saëns ' The Carnival of the Animals is a satirical portrait of the double bass, and American virtuoso Gary Karr made his televised debut playing " The Swan " ( originally written for the cello ) with the New York Philharmonic conducted by Leonard Bernstein.
The first A is an expansive threnody on solo cello ( Schmidt's own instrument ) whose seamless lyricism predates Strauss's Metamorphosen by more than a decade ( its theme is later adjusted to form the scherzo of the symphony ); the B section is an equally expansive funeral march ( deliberately referencing Beethoven's Eroica in its texture ) whose dramatic climax is marked by an orchestral crescendo culminating in a gong and cymbal crash ( again, a clear allusion to similar climaxes in the later symphonies of Bruckner, and followed by what Harold Truscott has brilliantly described as a " reverse climax ", leading back to a repeat of the A section ).
In Mexico, the popular mariachi band includes a range of guitars, from the tiny requinto to the guitarrón, a guitar larger than a cello, which is tuned in the bass register.
The tenor guitar is tuned in fifths, C G D A, as is the tenor banjo and the cello.
Mozart's Clarinet Quintet is similarly a piece written for an ensemble consisting of 2 violins, a viola, a cello and a clarinet, the last being the exceptional addition to a " normal " string quartet.
If, for example, a cello player is assigned a gavotte that was originally written for harpsichord, this gives the student insight in how to play the piece.
Another common type of Western art music quartet is the piano quartet, consisting of violin, viola, cello, and piano.

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In the realm of even larger works, Mozart included the double bass in addition to 12 wind instruments for his " Gran Partita " Serenade, K. 361 and Martinů used the double bass in his nonet for wind quintet, violin, viola, cello and double bass.
Currently, the most common tuning fork sounds the note of A = 440 Hz, because this is the standard concert pitch, which is used as tuning note by some orchestras, it being the pitch of the violin's second string, the first string of the viola, and an octave above the first string of the cello, all played open.
Bowing ( Italian: Arco ) is a method used in some string instruments, including the violin, viola, cello, and the double bass ( of the violin family ) and the old viol family.
Composers, arrangers, and bandleaders have used sections with more or fewer players, and additional instruments, such as valve trombone, baritone horn / euphonium ( both of which are usually used in place of or with trombones ), vibes, bass clarinet, French horn, tuba, banjo, accordion and strings ( violin, viola, cello ).
When music for bass clef instruments, such as the cello or trombone, goes several ledger lines above the bass clef, the tenor clef is used ; if it were to go even higher than practical in tenor clef, the notes may be notated in treble clef.
Slightly different bows, varying in weight and length, are used for the violin, viola, cello, and double bass.
Violin études by Rodolphe Kreutzer, Federigo Fiorillo and others, and cello études by Friedrich Dotzauer and Friedrich Wilhelm Grutzmacher are used mostly as teaching tools today.
The same type of chamber music ensemble – two violins, a viola and a cello – for which Mozart and Beethoven wrote can also be used to comment on international politics, interpret avant-garde rock and incorporate music from every corner of the world
Although it originally used the study of the violin to achieve its goals, it has also been adapted for other instruments: flute, recorder, piano, guitar, cello, viola, bass, organ, harp and voice.
Height adjustable chairs, benches, and footrests are used for piano, guitar, cello, and string bass.
Scordatura was much used by composers for violin and cello, including J. S. Bach, Biber, Vivaldi, Ariosti, and others such as Vilsmayr in compositions for violin during the early 18th century and a special type of notation was used to make it easier to read.
73 ), a book of cello études that is used almost universally by advanced cello students.
* Andrew Lloyd Webber – Variations ( 1977 ), Variations ( album ) originally for cello and rock band, and used as the theme for The South Bank Show, later also arranged for cello and orchestra ; Song & Dance – the Dance part is a reworked version of Variations
His chamber music compositions make use of newly developed instruments, among them the violotta, an instrument developed by Alfred Stelzner as an intermediary between viola and cello, which Draeseke used in his A major String Quintet, and also the viola alta, an instrument developed during the 1870s by Hermann Ritter and the prototype of viola expressly endorsed by Richard Wagner for his Bayreuth Orchestra.
Cellos, often in groups of three or more, are used to create a sound, rhythm, and texture similar to that of familiar rock music, but distinctly reshaped by the unique timbres and more traditional genres of the cello ( in particular ) and other string instruments used.
A cello sonata is usually a sonata written for cello and piano, though other instrumentations are used, such as solo cello.

cello and solo
It also features many solo passages for cello played by Yo-Yo Ma.
A notable exception would be Haydn, who composed solo passages for the double bass in his Symphonies No. 6 Le Matin, No. 7 Le midi, No. 8 Le Soir, No. 31 Horn Signal, and No. 45 Farewell, but who otherwise would group the bass and cello parts together.
Pieces for solo kora, duets with cello, viola, guitar and koto, suites for flute, guitar and three koras.
1996 saw the appearance of two notable albums: Smoochy, which fused pop and electronica with bossa nova and other South American forms, and 1996, which featured a number of previously released pieces arranged for solo piano, accompanied with violin and cello.
Many pieces from the baroque period for solo string instruments, such as Bach's Sonatas and partitas for solo violin and cello, convey subtle harmony through inference rather than full chordal structures.
A concerto ( from the, plural concerti or, often, the anglicised form concertos ) is a musical composition usually composed in four parts or movements, in which ( usually ) one solo instrument ( for instance, a piano, violin, cello or flute ) is accompanied by an orchestra.
In addition, Ernest Bloch wrote Schelomo, Rhapsodie Hébraïque for cello solo and orchestra in the 20th century.
Instruments occasionally brought in, usually solo, are violin, cello, piano, organ, chimes, and beatbox.
* Olivier Messiaen: La Transfiguration de Notre Seigneur Jésus-Christ (" The Transfiguration of Our Lord Jesus Christ "), large 10-part chorus, piano solo, cello solo, flute solo, clarinet solo, xylorimba solo, vibraphone solo, large orchestra ( 1965 – 69 )
Other techniques: The vibraphone solo " Mourning Dove Sonnet ," composed by Christopher Deane, utilizes a four mallet grip with two cello ( or bass ) bows held where the outer mallets would be, a yarn mallet for the main melodic playing and a plastic mallet for pitch bending in the inner positions.
These pieces include: early compositions for piano solo in a conservative harmonic style, many of which are lost ; a string quartet ( opus 2 ); a cello sonata ; a piano quartet ; Violin Sonata in E flat ( 1888 ); as well as a handful of late pieces.
Large-scale compositions by Finzi include the cantata Dies natalis for solo voice and string orchestra, and his concertos for cello and clarinet.
He is known for his smooth, rich tone as well as his considerable virtuosity, including a cello recording of Niccolò Paganini's 24th Caprice for solo violin, Zoltán Kodály's cello sonata, and other demanding works.
On May 3, 2009, Ma performed the world premiere of Bruce Adolphe's " Self Comes to Mind " for solo cello and two percussionists with John Ferrari and Ayano Kataoka at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.
His love themes are honeyed and chromatic and generally richly scored, and he is often fond of the warmth and serenity of diatonic harmony as balm after torrential chromatic textures, notably at the end of Don Quixote, where the solo cello has a surpassingly beautiful D major transformation of the main theme.

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