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Tartini Electric Double Bass (3/4):
maple top, maple back, maple sides and neck, hardwood
fittings, high gloss/satin varnish. Price:
$1,236.00
Shipping is $475.00 directly from Europe. |
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The Italian violinist, composer and teacher, GIUSEPPE
TARTINI (1692-1770), made an important contribution
to the virtuoso violin concerto and solo repertoire.
He led a life of abandon as a student of law in Padua,
Italy. After a secret marriage, he had to hide in a
monastery in Assisi, Italy, where he studied composition.
Tartini insisted all his pupils learn Corelli's Op.
5 sonatas before continuing study of anything else.
He was a self-taught genius who in 1728 founded the
most famous school of its time for violinists called
the PADUAN SCHOOL. Tartini taught the same 10 students
every day (teaching up to 10 hours a day!) and taught
over 70 students from around Europe.
Tartini's "Art of Bowing" (L'arte del arco)
is a set of 38 variations on a theme by Corelli that
develops a player's technical ability. Tartini was
very influential in the history of violin playing:
he used vibrato (then known as "tremolo")
as an ornamental effect and varied its speed; he perfected
a special bowing known as "messa di voce"
- a crescendo and decrescendo in a single stroke;
he discovered the so-called "resultant tone";
he used and influenced other to use thicker violin
strings; and he advocated the use of a lighter bow. |
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