[Tamil Songs Violin Notes
Eliora Shopbell
These songs are perfect for beginners who would like to give a small concert to friends and family. The additional benefit of learning the songs is that you will also learn many new violin techniques while working on them.
The video below features me playing the arrangement of the song in full. Listen to it by clicking the play button. You can also check out my blog post, in which I teach you how to learn this song of hope and grace on your violin!
It is a little bit more challenging than most of the other songs mentioned on this page, as it features a few difficult rhythms. However, if you listened to the original song often, you will most likely quickly pick up the rhythms. It helps to imagine the words that are being sung in the original song to play the rhythm correctly.
It is a beautiful tune to play on the violin and is both loved by pop musicians and folk music lovers alike. Also, it was one of the first tutorials I ever created for this website, back when I started at 23 years old.
This song has such an upbeat tempo and makes you feel happy and joyful when playing it! Learning this song on the violin is not only fun but it can also be educational as you will learn how to play light, quick bow strokes.
This is a really fun song from the Mary Poppins musical. It is great to play for others as many people know this tune from their childhood. However, be warned: you could get into some trouble trying to pronounce the song you just played!
What are the most notable pieces for solo violin that are of the renaissance era?
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Michael McGrathEdited: July 12, 2017, 5:19 PM Likely very little. The violin as we know it (4 strings, etc) didn't come into ascendance until the mid 16th Century, while the renaissance ended more or less at the start of the 17th. I think Amati was active sometime around the 1550's? For example, Stradivari was active from the mid 17th to early-mid 18th century. I'd say look at Viol music, of which there are copious amounts. I'd also say pick the vocal lines of some things and play them. I love playing Dowland's vocal lines on Viola. Sounds lovely.
Ewan DJuly 12, 2017, 5:24 PM Perhaps there are some recommendations for some excellent viol pieces ?
Michael McGrathJuly 12, 2017, 5:39 PM Unfortunately I don't have any further recommendation than above - solo instruments were much less common in the Renaissance than later eras. I'm sure out of all the people here, someone will have specific titles for you. I do stick with my recommendation of Dowland's vocal lines though. They're quite beautiful. If you can find a guitarist friend who can play at the G6+ level they should be able to play the accompaniments for most of them for you as well.
Paul DeckEdited: July 12, 2017, 5:47 PM One thing about Renaissance music is that it's even earlier than baroque music. So in order to play it you have to saw even more length off the end of your fingerboard.
Bram van MelleEdited: July 12, 2017, 5:53 PM By "renaissance", I suspect you mean late-16th and early 17th century? Praetorius's Terpsichore has lots of agreeable dance music of the time which can be played on treble instruments. Violin evolved from medieval fiddle traditions, and that use stuck with it for a long time. You don't really see solo "art" music specifically for the violin until mid-17th century. Have a look the solo sonatas by Castello and Uccellini, some of which clearly have violin in mind. They're available on IMSLP. The second Castello sonata is lovely. Here's a nice clip: =gSYo6MFwr9g Michael's tip re Dowland is a good one. The Lachrymae Pavan by Schop (a mid 17th century violin virtuoso) is based on Dowland's famous pavan. The Schop arrangement is a similar flavour to the Castello piece. Check out on YouTube. I've had trouble finding sheet music for it (had in the 1980s... but now lost) :)
Rocky MilankovEdited: July 13, 2017, 5:10 PM Another possible source for transposition / arrangement would be the music for lute. Bach's E major partita has been transposed and played on modern guitar. It could work the other way too, depending on the key and complexity of broken chords / arpeggios. Original music for violin? no.
Carmen TanzioJuly 14, 2017, 6:18 AM To second Rocky's suggestion, there is a lot of extant lute music from the Renaissance that can be transposed into lovely solo violin pieces. Check out the IMSLP web site.The challenge is to find music that has been converted to modern notation. The ancient tablature requires some research and practice to read and translate.A reasonable transcription of most of the stuff I have encountered will yield about 2 minutes worth of music. If you are looking for something more extensive, I am not sure there is much to be had from that period. It was mostly dance and religious music.
John RokosJuly 14, 2017, 5:35 PM I've played some of Gibbons's music for two viols - but that's one viol too many!
Trevor JenningsEdited: July 15, 2017, 10:30 AM Paul, anyone thinking about going down the Renaissance/Early Musick fiddle route may wish to consider the plain, uncovered, gut G (still available) for enhanced "authenticity". The major con, as I see it, is that the plain gut G is considerably fatter than its well-loved sibling, the covered gut G. This is in order to achieve the required mass per unit unit. It follows from this that luthier-led modifications to the nut and bridge will probably be necessary. The gimped G may be a possible alternative.
Dorian FuJuly 15, 2017, 1:11 PM The violin as we know it wasn't even around the Renaissance as we generally define it...so any transcription would be anachronistic anyway and the discussion of gut strings is probably veering off-topic.If the OP wants to explore adapting unaccompanied music before the Baroque to the violin, perhaps a lot of dance tunes that would had been played on vielles or rebecs would be of interest: =jPKhBkLgFLk&ab_channel=pafroditesAnd the wonderful thing is that this tradition has continue well into the traditional/folk fiddling we have today. googletag.cmd.push(function() googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1445120547957-0'); );
Stephen SymchychJuly 15, 2017, 4:35 PM Ezra Pound's music catches some of the flavor, and there is a lot for violin solo.
Ewan DJuly 16, 2017, 5:46 AM Thanks for your input and suggestions everyone.
Trevor JenningsEdited: July 16, 2017, 8:03 AM An important source for folk fiddle music of the era under discussion is Lionel Bacon's encyclopedic "A Handbook of Morris Dances" (over 300pp), published by The Morris Ring. Bacon includes the dance tunes in addition to the instructions for the often complex morris dances from the West of England. Note that "morris" in this context is spelled with a lower-case "m", and is not a proper noun. The morris tunes date largely from the Renaissance, or even earlier, evidently having survived the cull of secular dance and music in England under the Puritans.If you look up in Bacon that well-known tune from the period, "Greensleeves", you'll find several versions, some under the name "Bacca Pipes", all with the refreshing modalities and rumbustiousness characteristic of morris music, compared with the etiolate version in a major key that prevails today.
Paul DeckJuly 17, 2017, 3:32 AM A lot of stuff that was written for virginal (by John Bull, etc.) can be sight-read by an intermediate-level string quartet.
Francis BrowneEdited: July 22, 2017, 8:17 AM More early baroque then renaissance, but Biber's Passacaglia Link to it on IMSLP
is one of the earliest known pieces for solo violin.It's fun, too! I'll be playing it in church next week. Feels very similar to the Chaccone from Bach's D Minor Partita (Bach probably knew this piece, which was 40 years earlier), but with a rather different sonority. I really like John Holloway's recordings of Biber if anyone wants to listen - really brings out the fantastic in Stylus Fantastickus.
Anish CarmynJuly 27, 2017, 8:44 AM I also play in a recorder ensemble for renaissance dancers. There's lots of very beautiful descsnt and treble recorder music around that works very well on violin, including late ren/early baroque chamber music. If you have others to play with, madrigals work beautifully on strings.What's your standard and context for playing renaissance music? Interest? Reenactment? Professional gig?
John RokosJuly 28, 2017, 4:23 PM My transcription for unaccompanied viola of Dowland's Melancholy Galliard (first performed in beta version when at my place of work we were saying farewell to a visiting worker whose surname was Gaillard) is available on Dropbox, I think. The notes are manageable, but performance so that others will enjoy it has been beyond me.You could put it up a fifth and play it on the violin, but it would sound less melancholy, and might be even more difficult to perform convincingly.
Trevor JenningsEdited: July 30, 2017, 5:56 AM The lute, an important contrapuntal instrument of the time and Dowland's choice, has 6 or 7 courses (sometimes more) tuned in 4ths with a major or minor 3rd halfway. A transcription of lute music for an instrument tuned in 5ths is therefore going to present problems, resulting in compromises along the way, or perhaps even a re-write. Bach's 4th cello suite is believed by some to have been originally written for the lute, and there is an indication of this in the G-D-G-C cello scordatura required - although it is possible (but not preferable for most!) to play it with standard tuning. googletag.cmd.push(function() googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1548883144385-0'); ); This discussion has been archived and is no longer accepting responses.