Which orchestral instrument is known as fagotto in Italian?
"great Signor Fagotto. Caramello arrives to woo her, the lyre of Pindar under his arm. However, Clorinda is in love with her music tutor Fabricio, a young composer whose work is not music to Bertolucci's ears, but whom Clorinda hopes to wed with the help of her maid Moschetta. Fabricio arrives and gives Clorinda her music lesson. Bertolucci's servant Bacòlo spots an opportunity for him to win the heart and hand of Moschetta, who has spurned him so far, by assisting with a plot to outwit their master and musical snob. This very day Fagotto has consented to be witness"
"Organetto Organetto refers to two distinct instruments. The medieval organetto, or ""portative"" was a portable pipe instrument, while the modern organetto is a popular Italian folk instrument allied to the accordion. The medieval Organetto was a portable pipe instrument, allied to the later classical pipe organ, and pumped with the hand. It is referenced in the Roman de la Rose: ""There are easily manageable organs which are portable and are pumped and played by the same person, who also sings either the soprano or tenor part."" It was among the most popular instruments in Europe from the 13th to the"
"song tradition extends through many holidays throughout the year. Instrumentation is an integral part of all facets of Italian folk music. There are several instruments that retain older forms even while newer models have become widespread elsewhere in Europe. Many Italian instruments are tied to certain rituals or occasions, such as the ""zampogna"" bagpipe, typically heard only at Christmas. Italian folk instruments can be divided into string, wind and percussion categories. Common instruments include the ""organetto"", an accordion most closely associated with the saltarello; the diatonic button ""organetto"" is most common in central Italy, while chromatic accordions prevail in the"
"Piazzolla's ""Fugata"" from 1969 showcases the instrument, which plays the initial fugue subject on the 1st statement, then moves on to the outright tango after the introduction. With his solos and accompaniment on the bandoneon, Piazzolla combined a musical composition much derived from classical music (which he had studied intensively in his formative years) with traditional instrumental tango, to form ""nuevo tango"", his new interpretation of the genre. Exterior A look inside a bandoneon: Bandoneon The bandoneon (or bandonion, ) is a type of concertina particularly popular in Argentina and Uruguay. It is an essential instrument in most tango ensembles"
"a cadenza in the first oboe all centered around the V chord of F major. After which, the piece returns to the opening material of the movement, ending in B flat major. Cited sources Scores Video performances I. Allegretto II. Larghetto III. Minuetto - Allegro non troppo IV. Presto Picciola serenata Picciola serenata (little serenade) in B-flat major is a serenade written by Italian composer Antonio Salieri scored for five instruments: 2 oboes, 2 horns and 1 bassoon. The piece was composed in 1778 and consists of four movements. Salieri wrote Picciola Serenata in B-flat major in 1778. The piece"
"Anastasios Mavroudis (violin), Antonis Hatzinikolaou (electric guitar), Anahit Chaushyan (piano), James Opstad (double bass). Fugata Quintet Fugata Quintet is a London based chamber group formed in early 2007 at the Royal Academy of Music, where all quintet members were studying at the time. Fugata principally perform Nuevo Tango music by the Argentine composer Ástor Piazzolla. The quintet is one of the few independent groups to have produced and performed a fully staged production of Maria de Buenos Aires, the Tango Operita by Ástor Piazzolla and Horacio Ferrer. The group's name is an homage to Piazzolla's composition ""Fugata"" from the Nuevo"
"""V'ho ingannato"" (""Father, I deceived you""). She dies in his arms. Rigoletto cries out in horror: ""La maledizione!"" (""The curse!"") The orchestra calls for 2 flutes (Flute 2 doubles piccolo), 2 oboes (Oboe 2 doubles English horn), 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 4 horns in Eb, D, C, Ab, G, and F, 2 trumpets in C, D, and Eb, 3 trombones, cimbasso, timpani, bass drum and cymbals, strings. The short orchestral preludio is based on the theme of the curse, intoned quietly on brass at first and building to intensity until it bursts into a passionate outcry by the full orchestra,"
"Viotti International Music Competition The Viotti International Music Competition (), named after the Italian composer and violinist Gian (Giovanni) Battista Viotti (1755–1824), is held every year in Vercelli, Piedmont, Italy. It was founded by violinist Joseph Robbone in 1950 and has been, since 1957, a member of the World Federation of Music Competitions. The competition is dedicated primarily to piano and opera singing, but also features sections for violin, chamber music, oboe, guitar, dance and composition, among others. In the fifty years since its inception, thousands of competitors have taken part, many of whom have reached international fame. They include"
"similar functions called an 'arciorgano', and that the Italian language does not make a hard-and-fast distinction between the two forms. Only one keyboard instrument using his 31-note-to-the-octave system survives from the Renaissance: the ""Clavemusicum Omnitonum Modulis Diatonicis Cromaticis et Enarmonicis"", built by harpsichord maker Vito Trasuntino of Venice (1526 – after 1606) in 1606 intended to play the diatonic, chromatic and enharmonic melodies (""moduli""). It is on display at the International museum and library of music in Bologna. The Clavemusicum is accompanied by a tuning device, called TRECTA CORDO, that clearly shows an uneven division of the octave, with the"
"Festival - International Music Festival - an event that is part of the circuit ""Piemonte dal Vivo"" Italy. Giovanni Battista Viotti Giovanni Battista Viotti (12 May 1755 – 3 March 1824) was an Italian violinist whose virtuosity was famed and whose work as a composer featured a prominent violin and an appealing lyrical tunefulness. He was also a director of French and Italian opera companies in Paris and London. Viotti was born at Fontanetto Po in the Kingdom of Sardinia (today in the province of Vercelli, Piedmont, Italy). For his musical talent, he was taken into the household of principe"
"The Sicilian ciaramedda is a type of Italian Zampogna (Bagpipe) that has two equal length chanters and from two to three drones. All the pipes use single cane reeds made from Arundo donax. Also made out of Arundo donax is a small end-blown flute called a friscaletto or friscalettu. The jaw harp, known in Sicilian as ""marranzanu"" is heavily associated with Sicilian folk music. Since its invention in the early 19th century, the Organetto, a diatonic folk accordion, also has been prevalent in traditional Sicilian music. Percussion instruments include tambourines and other frame drums as well as the """"cupa cupa"""","
"of dulcians was a rarity; its primary function seems to have been to provide the bass in the typical wind band of the time, either loud (shawms) or soft (recorders), indicating a remarkable ability to vary dynamics to suit the need. Otherwise, dulcian technique was rather primitive, with eight finger holes and two keys, indicating that it could play in only a limited number of key signatures. The dulcian came to be known as ""fagotto"" in Italy. However, the usual etymology that equates ""fagotto"" with ""bundle of sticks"" is somewhat misleading, as the latter term did not come into general"
"the informal background music normally associated with the serenade type."" At the banquet in the finale of ""Don Giovanni"", Mozart has a ""Harmonie"" perform parts from ""Una cosa rara"" by Vicente Martín y Soler, ""I due litiganti"" by Giuseppe Sarti and the aria ""Non piu andrai"" from his own ""The Marriage of Figaro"". The scoring is for the full eight-part Harmonie, two each of oboes, clarinets, bassoons, and horns. Harmonie Harmonie is a German word that, in the context of the history of music, designates an ensemble of wind instruments (usually about five to eight players) employed by an aristocratic"
"an orchestra consisting of two flutes, two oboes, two clarinets in B-flat, two bassoons, one contrabassoon, three French horns in F, two trumpets in C, one trombone, timpani, and a full string section. Op. 120, No. 1 (Berio) Op. 120, No. 1, also entitled ""Opus 120, No. 1"" or in its German form, ""Opus 120, Nr. 1"", is a 1986 arrangement for clarinet and orchestra of Johannes Brahms's Clarinet Sonata Op. 120, No. 1 by Italian composer Luciano Berio. As with the original Sonata, the soloist in this arrangement can either be a clarinet or a viola. An avant-garde composer,"
"Fugata Quintet Fugata Quintet is a London based chamber group formed in early 2007 at the Royal Academy of Music, where all quintet members were studying at the time. Fugata principally perform Nuevo Tango music by the Argentine composer Ástor Piazzolla. The quintet is one of the few independent groups to have produced and performed a fully staged production of Maria de Buenos Aires, the Tango Operita by Ástor Piazzolla and Horacio Ferrer. The group's name is an homage to Piazzolla's composition ""Fugata"" from the Nuevo Tango Suite ""Tangata Silfo y Ondina"". The current quintet members are: Živorad Nikolić (accordion),"
"Ferruccio Furlanetto Ferruccio Furlanetto (born 16 May 1949 in Sacile, Italy) is an Italian bass. His professional debut was in 1974 in Lonigo, he debuted at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan in 1979, in a production of Verdi's ""Macbeth"", conducted by Claudio Abbado. He has gone on to sing numerous roles, including both Don Giovanni and Leporello in Mozart's ""Don Giovanni"", Philip II in Verdi's ""Don Carlos"", Figaro in Mozart's ""Le nozze di Figaro"", Gremin in Tchaikovsky's ""Eugene Onegin"", Zaccaria in Verdi's ""Nabucco"", Méphistophélès in Gounod's ""Faust"", Orestes in Strauss' ""Elektra"", Fiesco in Verdi's ""Simon Boccanegra"", the title role"
"Flauto, 1 Hautbois, 1 Violino, concertati, è 2 Violini, 1 Viola è Violone in Ripieno col Violoncello è Basso per il Cembalo. ""Concertino"": clarino (natural trumpet) in F, recorder (blockflute), oboe, violin ""Ripieno"": two violins, viola, violone, and basso continuo (including harpsichord) ""Duration"": about 13 minutes The trumpet part is still considered one of the most difficult in the entire repertoire, and was originally written for a clarino specialist, almost certainly the court trumpeter in Köthen, Johann Ludwig Schreiber. After clarino skills were lost in the eighteenth century and before the rise of the historically informed performance movement of the"
"Oboe Concerto (Mozart) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Oboe Concerto in C major, K. 314 (271k), was composed in the spring or summer of 1777, for the oboist Giuseppe Ferlendis (1755–1802) from Bergamo. In 1778, Mozart re-worked it as a concerto for flute in D major. The concerto is a widely studied piece for both instruments and is one of the more important concertos in the oboe repertoire. As with his Flute Concerto No. 1, the piece is arranged for a standard set of orchestral strings - (violin I/II, viola and cello/double-bass doubling the bass line), two oboes, and two horns in"
"and debuted at the NAMM Show that year, in Anaheim, California. The musician Björk uses this instrument on the acoustic version of her album ""Vulnicura"" (), in the song ""Black Lake"". Viola organista The viola organista is a musical instrument designed by Leonardo da Vinci. It uses a friction belt to vibrate individual strings (similar to how a violin produces sounds), with the strings selected by pressing keys on a keyboard (similar to an organ). Leonardo's design has intrigued instrument makers for more than 400 years. But though similar instruments have been built, no extant instrument constructed directly from Leonardo's"
"or major), keys which could give this note particular prominence. Faustina Bordoni Faustina Bordoni (30 March 1697 – 4 November 1781) was an Italian mezzo-soprano. In Hamburg, Germany, the Johann Adolph Hasse Museum is dedicated to her husband and partly to Bordoni. She was born in Venice and brought up under the protection of the aristocratic brother composers Alessandro and Benedetto Marcello. Her singing teacher was another composer, Michelangelo Gasparini. For many years in the service of the Elector Palatine, she made her operatic debut at Venice in 1716 in Carlo Francesco Pollarolo's ""Ariodante"", singing in her home city until"
"Philharmonic Orchestra. The town of Jesi has the Teatro Pergolesi and supports the Pergolesi Foundation, both named for this ""favorite son"" composer and one of the great names in the music of the 18th century in Italy. Ascoli Piceno is the site of the historic ""Teatro Ventidio Basso"" whereas Fermo is home to ""Teatro dell'Aquila"" and a new music conservatory. The town of Fermo is home to the International Orchestra of Italy, a fine private orchestra with a 20-year history of concerts in Italy and abroad. Macerata is the site of the remarkable ""Arena Sferisterio"". Flanked by neo-classical columns, it"
"Viola organista The viola organista is a musical instrument designed by Leonardo da Vinci. It uses a friction belt to vibrate individual strings (similar to how a violin produces sounds), with the strings selected by pressing keys on a keyboard (similar to an organ). Leonardo's design has intrigued instrument makers for more than 400 years. But though similar instruments have been built, no extant instrument constructed directly from Leonardo's incomplete designs is known. Sometimes it has been called harpsichord viola by mistake since it's a different instrument. Leonardo designed many different and elaborate models of viola organista, as preserved in"
"Italian overture The Italian overture is a piece of orchestral music which opened several operas, oratorios and other large-scale works in the late 17th and early 18th centuries. An Italian overture typically has a three-movement structure – the outer movements are quick, the middle movement is slow. This type of overture was particularly popular among Italian composers such as Alessandro Scarlatti, and in the early 18th century would usually be called ""sinfonia"". Later, to avoid confusion with other types of sinfonia/symphony, the term ""Italian overture"" was used more frequently. The structure of the Italian overture/sinfonia was the base from which"
"which are still in use today. He was appointed professor of flute at the Conservatoire in Florence in 1870, and remained there until his death in 1881. In 1996 the asteroid N. 7714 was named in his memory. Briccialdi, known as “the Paganini of the flute,” was a remarkable virtuoso who toured Europe as a soloist and was responsible for several technical improvements to the flute—now standard features on the instrument. He ultimately settled in Florence and taught at the Florence Conservatory. Giulio Briccialdi Giulio Briccialdi (1/2 March 1818 – 17 December 1881) was an Italian virtuoso flautist and composer,"
"gola German: ""der Zurückschlag"" or ""der gedehnte oder punctirte Triller"" (Mattheson) English: ribattuta French: ribattuta (f) or ""tour de gosier"" (Marpurg) or ""cadence pleine à progression"" (Lacassagne) or ""double cadence"" (Bérard-Blanchet) Ribattuta Ribattuta or Ribattuta di gola is a musical ornament found in Italian and German works of the 17th and 18th centuries. The ornament is a trill on a long-short dotted rhythm accelerating to end on either a tremolo or a regular trill. The ornament is described by Mattheson (1739), Spiess (1745), and Marpurg (1749). Frederick Neumann notes the trill following the dotted preparation is a main-note trill (that"
"Gualtiero in Bellini’s ""Il pirata"", at the Festival della Valle d'Itria in Martina Franca. Falsettone Falsettone is a term used in modern Italian musicology to describe a vocal technique used by male opera singers in the past, in which the fluty sounds typical of falsetto singing are amplified by using the same singing technique used in the modal voice register. The result is a bright, powerful tone, often very high-pitched, although the sound is still different from and more feminine than what is produced by the modal voice. The term ""falsettone"" is also used for the mixed vocal register that"
"I Cinque Elementi Wind Quintet I Cinque Elementi (from the Italian for the five elements) is a musical ensemble from Padua. The members of this ensemble (flute: Sophie Babetto, oboe: Claudio Fanton, clarinet: Daniele Trincanato, horn: Dario Cavinato, basson: Loris Zanetti) play chamber music and new music. I Cinque Elementi gave its first performance during the International Summer Festival in Freiburg im Breisgau (Germany) where it obtained the warm approval of public and critics. The musicians of the group have attended the masterclasses of famous teachers and concert artists and have won the first prize of important musical contests as"
"and orchestra; saxophone quartet; tuba and piano; viola and piano; vocal ensemble; and voice and harp. The cello and piano version is in G minor in 6/8 time. It is marked ""andantino"" with a metronome mark of dotted crotchet = 50. The full orchestral version, also G minor, is marked ""allegretto molto moderato"". The playing time of the piece is typically between three and a half and four minutes. Sicilienne (Fauré) Sicilienne, Op. 78, is a short work by Gabriel Fauré, composed in 1893. It was originally an orchestral piece, written for a theatrical production that was abandoned. In 1898"
"a harmony-producing instrument, such as a small organ, a harpsichord, or a theorbo. The (basso) continuo could be performed by two or more performers; a cellist to play the bass line and a harpsichordist or organist to focus on the harmonies. Because there could be two people playing the continuo part, there could be as many as four players playing. This can be misleading to some as the “trio” of the trio sonata refers to the three parts and not the number of players. Sonatas could be placed into two categories: sonata da camera (chamber sonata) and sonata da chiesa"
"flauto piccolo by a flauto traverso. The cantata in six movements is scored for three vocal soloists (alto, tenor and bass), a four-part choir, trumpet, flauto piccolo (descant recorder in D), two oboes d'amore, two violins, viola and continuo. The cantata begins in B minor, illustrating sorrow, but in movement 4 shifts to the relative major key of D major, illustrating the theme of consolation in Ziegler's text. The opening chorus has an unusual structure, which includes an arioso passage for the bass voice. All instruments except the trumpet play a ritornello, after which a choral fugue pictures the weeping"
"Piccolo The piccolo (; Italian for ""small"", but named ""ottavino"" in Italy) is a half-size flute, and a member of the woodwind family of musical instruments. The modern piccolo has most of the same fingerings as its larger sibling, the standard transverse flute, but the sound it produces is an octave higher than written. This gave rise to the name ""ottavino"" (Italian for ""little octave""), which the instrument is called in the scores of Italian composers. It is also called ""flauto piccolo"" or ""flautino"", Vivaldi making use of the latter term. Piccolos are now mainly manufactured in the key of"
"Amidst these two ethnic melodies is heard a ""traveling"" theme in pizzicato that represents the plodding hoofs of the horses and camels. At the end only the Russian theme is heard. The piece is scored for two flutes, oboe, cor anglais, two clarinets, two bassoons, four horns in F, two trumpets in F, two trombones, bass trombone, timpani and strings. Somewhat unusually, the two scores available via the IMSLP link below show different tempo markings at the start. The Eulenberg score is marked “Allegretto con moto”, whereas the Russian Muzyka score shows “Allegro con moto”. Borodin also transcribed the piece"
"(both solo and with piano accompaniment). A few of his studies and études are still used in teaching, namely ""Etudes mignonnes"" op. 131, ""20 Petites Etudes"" op. 132, ""Exercices journaliers"" op. 89 and 15 ""Etudes modernes et progressives"". Gariboldi also composed many songs and three operettas. Giuseppe Gariboldi Giuseppe (Francesco Gabriele Patrizio Gaspare) Gariboldi (17 March 1833, Macerata – 12 April 1905, Castelraimondo) was an Italian flautist and composer. In 1856, after studies with Giuseppe D'Aloe, he moved to Paris, where he worked as a composer and flute virtuoso. From 1859 to 1861, he concerted in Belgium, Netherlands, England and"