EXCERCISES
A)What is a Guarneri?
-Is the family name of a group of distinguished luthiers from Cremona in Italy in the 17th and 18th centuries, whose standing is considered comparable to those of the Amati and Stradivari families.
B)Which famous luthiers lived in the italian city of Cremona?
-Bartolomeo Giuseppe Guarneri  (21 August 1698 - 17 October 1744)
-Pietro Guarneri  (14 April 1695 - 7 April 1762)
-Giuseppe Giovanni Battista Guarneri  (25 November 1666 - 1739 or 1740)
-Pietro Giovanni Guarneri  (18 February 1655 - 26 March 1720)
-Andrea Guarneri ( 1626 - 7 December 1698)
C)Which famous luthiers made violins for Niccolo Paganini?
-He came to possess five Stradivarius violins, two Amati and a Guarnerius (his favorite violin) called Il Cannone.
 

                                                        RARE INSTRUMENT

    THE NELOPHONE: The nelophone is an instrument formed by tubes (from 1'8 to 9 meters long) organized around a circle up to 3'6 meters in circumference. The musician stands in the middle of the instrument and hits the openings of the tubes with special blades. The pitch of each tube depends on its length (as normally happens with all wind instruments).
 

               

                                                              BEATBOXING

           Is a type of vocal percussion in which the performer imitates the sounds of a drum machine with the mouth,lips,tongue and voice.It was borned in the late 1980s in the poorer parts of New York.

         This is a beatboxing battel.

                                                 

                                                              EXERCISES

    Maria Callas:

     -Date and place of birth:  Nueva York, 2 de diciembre de 1923    

    -Where her family was from: Era hija de Evangelia Dimitriadis y George Kaloyerópulos, una pareja de emigrantes griegos que llegaron a Estados Unidos en agosto de 1923                                                                                                                                    - Nickname: the divine

     -Tessitura of her voice:soprano                                                          -Other information about his life:On November 3, 1959, Maria Callas left her husband Giovanni Meneghini for the Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis, an idyll that the press of the time spread exhaustively. This tortuous relationship would become a "Greek tragedy." The soprano retired for a short time while his relationship with Onassis lasted, and on his return (for lack of practice and excessive social life) no one escaped that his voice had lost force and evidenced the signs of decadence that had already been warned Years before.