Introduction To The New Violin Family (1/3)
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- Опубликовано: 6 окт 2024
- Your genial host, luthier Robert J. Spear, takes the viewer on an unscripted tour of the New Violin Family Orchestra. In Part One, he explains about the history of the New Family, highlighting each instrument in turn in its native surroundings. In Part Two, there's also a comparison of the standard violin and a mezzo violin as well as additional introductions. And in Part Three you'll get to hear subsections of the ensemble in short excerpts of familiar works. You'll know more about the instruments after watching this suite of video clips, and please enjoy other offerings from the NVFO and the Archus Trio in octavivo's channel.
That absolute joker on the mezzo playing locrian mode when asked to play a scale had me cracking up
That soprano violin deserves a round of aplause.. The sheer tone of that is INCREDIBLE.
+Quodge It's like everything a violin is supposed to be!!
@@Quodge Yamaha should expand their Catalogue w/ New Violin Family instruments & also in Electrified Versions so you can Rock out through an amp.
I appreciate the enthusiasm and excitement with which a new family of instruments is launched. But as a composer and orchestration instructor, I really wanted much less talk and much more musical examples. For me to be captivated by the possibilities of these instruments, I'd require hearing more solo passages from each.
That's so true, thanks for mentioning that. Really, what's the point of introducing new instruments if we aren't going to get to hear them? What are you trying to achieve with this presentation?
@@amj.composer Come on you've heard each one w/ some words regarding them
@@amj.composer Wait a minute you heard them in action so we could take musical compositions & arrangements to a new level along w/ that 108 Key Piano that came out a few years ago.
6:54 So if you've gone to a String Quartet Concert or a Symphony Orchestra Concert (or even so a Viola Concert), you're hearing the Smaller Alto. The Original Design team worked around the playability issue of the Bigger Sized Violas that are big enough for those low notes by reorienting them vertically w/ an Endpin so you can play it like a Cello. Another big advantage is that the sound will project towards the audience better.
4:37 The Soprano is tuned like a Viola but an Octave Higher so it has a nice bright sound. It's A=440HZ but in the 4 ft Octave, which means the High A String is A=880HZ. So here's what it sounds like in action this going to be a C Major Scale.
I do feel that the existing string repertoire may not work as well on these instruments as on a standard ensemble - just as renaissance viol consort works sound out-of-place on modern instruments. I respectfully submit that new works should be composed which establish these instruments by arranging to their strengths, rather than opening them up to unavoidable comparisons. The possibilities are really enticing.
OrchestrationOnline I feel that’s a point. Using these new instruments to fill in the spots that cellos and violins take for contemporary classical music, while using violins, cellos, and contrabasses for other genres: Metal, rock, jazz, pop, folk, etc.
@@topsecret1837 Why not playing heavy metal on an electric soprano violin?
Or maybe you could adapt that music for those instruments by writing new parts for them.
5:17 I saw a Double Keyboard Organ in the Background. It could be a Reed Organ or a Pipe Organ but I'm not sure what type it is because I never got to play it. The next instrument up is the Mezzo Violin which is in the same tuning as a Standard Violin (it uses the Same Strings) but it's bigger so it's fairly loud. It reminds me of the 5/4 & 6/4 Size Violins which are great for people who find that a Normal Violin just isn't big enough for them.
6:12 Alright the next instrument up is the Alto Violin which is a very Iconic Instrument. It's a Viola that's big enough for those low notes to speak clearly, so it has a 19.5 in. Body. It uses an End-Pin like a Cello to work around the playability issue.
The small chamber double bass was really cool very nice yeah
2:43 The Original String Family that we're familar w/ that when you go to a Symphony Orchestra Concert (or even a String Quartet/Quintet Concert) you'll see 2 sections of Violins, the Violas which are the Alto Voice, & the Cellos which are nowadays the Bass-Baritone Voice. The Big Contrabass (which is the Super Deep Bass Voice) came to us from the Gamba Family, & over the years it was morphed into a Super Big Low Pitched Violin but still wasn't yet in the same family until today. This project required rebalancing the instruments & plugging those holes in the Acoustic Spectrum so that between the Violas & Cellos are the Tenor Violins, & above the Standard Violin are actually 2 new Violins which are the Soprano Violin (we have 3 of them on the stage tonight), the Little Treble Violin which plays an Octave above the Standard Violin (it's essentially in the same pitch as a Music box), we're having some technical difficulties getting strings for that, so that's not here yet. And we now have another instrument between the Cellos & Contrabasses, the Small Bass. There are actually 2 more instruments below the Contrabass, the Subcontrabass (tuned the same as a Violin but 3 Octaves lower), & the Octobass which is 2 Octaves below a Cello as far as Pitch & Tuning go. The Octobass actually has Keys (like a Nyckelharpa) so you can play it.
7:01 The Original Design Team cleverly solved the playability problem by adding an end pin.
Great work!
The sound of those instruments is amazing and the range gaps are perfectly filled up. I dare say they're richer, clearer and even more powerful than the traditional violin family. If they were made at the level of a Strad or a Guarneri or the best, best moderns, I can't fathom how they'd sound in 200 years.
The Soprano violin is something else, the mezzo beautifully rich and powerful. The Alto violin produces that sound and resonance which I always wanted to hear from a viola, but somehow found it lacking all the time (though on this particular example it's sound is rather cello like -- I think the C string can be even richer and the A even more luminous, perhaps the player wasn't playing the scale all full tone).
Soloists could have a field day with these...
5:02 Plays a 3 octave C Major Scale on the Soprano Violin
All three videos together in a playlist for convenience: ruclips.net/video/70gjbrLtDD0/видео.html.
Woo Bravo
Is it as easy to play difficult violin repertoire on the mezzo Violin? I’m mostly asking in regards of shifting to high positions.
It'll work.
It'll work.
Hi there, it's just an enlarged model full sized violin, but it can play violin stuff.
I kinda have more mixed feelings about this as a violinist who plays the rest of the family. I'm not against the family, that's just more instruments that I can play in the future, but I don't think it's conventional outside of a string orchestra setting.
Also, why do we need all these new names, instrument's that are the same as their counter part could be called by their counter part interchangeably. Change the Soprano violin to descant and change the treble to sopranino. The Alto Violin is a different instrument, it can keep it's name.
That's like saying that the cornet and flugelhorn are just funny shaped trumpets.
@@JohnStimson aren't they though? Let's be honest.
6:37 I always worry about that long End pin
Alto violin at 7:26
Yep it's an Upright Viola, the right size & also big enough to play like a Cello
6:37 I always worry about that long end pin
C?ow
Talking to much
Actually it's about those instruments
There's a history behind them