Rostropovich plays Bach´s Bourree - Suite No 3

I love this song. I love to whistle it sometimes.

Hey Bryce, it's Shane

Manifold1 I'll say it again as you are confused.

The Violin family has 4 strings tuned in 5ths. All have a rounded back.

The Viol family have 6 strings tuned in 3rd's and 4th's with gut FRETS! They all have flat backs. This family of instruments was superseded in the first part of the 18thC by the more powerful Violin family.

There are two types of Double Bass. Some have a flat back and some rounded, but both are considered members of the violin family even though they are all tuned in 4ths.

It's funny ! Because "bourrée" In french means "Drunk" Is it drunk ? Yes you know when someones drink too much alcoohol. So the sentence "Rostropovich plays bach bourrée" Means Rostropovich plays bach when he is drunk lol.

it means drunk because the bourrée was a dance that they did in france after the grape harvest, it's in 2/4 with an accent on every bar. They did this dance "jumping" on the grapes, you know

Oh it really means drunk ? LoL I thank it was just a coincidence (I don't know if you say like that in english sorry im french)

don't worry i'm italian! well yes, I remember that bourrée means drunk, I'm quiete sure about this, but I'm completely sure about the dance of the grape harvesting! They made a big accent every 2 beats becouse of their jumping on the grapes

What I was saying was that they branched off of that family....and yes, I was actually joking about the double bass, like most of the other posters.

Yeah, I liked your joke about the Double Bass but Im saying that the Viol family was always a separate family of instruments that co-existed together up until the early 18thC. The Viol family became obsolete by the 1750s or so whilst the Violin family of instruments obviously continued to develop to what we have today.

Oh...then I wonder what my Orchestra teacher was smoking last year...lol