F-Hole
F 孔
「F 孔」是指特定弦樂器，尤其是小提琴、中提琴、大提琴和低音提琴等的樂器身上的開口。這些開口呈現出字母「F」的形狀，並在塑造樂器的聲音方面發揮著幾個重要功能。
「F 孔」是許多拉弦樂器的獨特特徵，在樂器的樂器身上方，通常位於琴橋的兩側。它們之所以被稱為「F 孔」，是因為從正面看時，它們的形狀類似於字母「F」。
「F 孔」的主要功能包括：
- 聲音投射：「F 孔」使弦的振動能夠與樂器內部的空氣進行交互作用。這種交互作用放大和塑造了弦所產生的聲波，有助於樂器的音調和音量。
- 共鳴：「F 孔」的大小、形狀和位置影響了樂器的共鳴特性。它們有助於調節振動在樂器內部的分布，影響了樂器的整體音質和音色。
- 氣流：「F 孔」還促使樂器內的空氣流動。當弦振動時，它們在樂器內部造成了空氣壓力變化，「F 孔」允許空氣交換，有助於保持一致的空氣壓力，並促進樂器的靈敏度。
- 美學：除了其聲學功能外，「F 孔」通常設計精美，增添了樂器的視覺吸引力。它們可以有不同的形狀和風格，使每個樂器在外觀上都獨特。
不同的樂器在「F 孔」的設計上可能會有變化，製琴師（樂器製造者）可能會嘗試不同的形狀和大小，以實現特定的音色特性。
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音樂文章
G Song by Terry Riley
As an iconic American composer, Terry Riley (born 1935) is always considered as a minimalist. However, this kind of thoughts would be ignoring part of his creativity. In fact, Riley added plenty elements in his compositions since 1970s, especially when he started collaborating with the Kronos Quartet. Riley’s composing style is very extensive, including improvisation, polyrhythm and jazz. He adopted classical elements, such as instrumentation, musical forms, structure and tonality. He also combined the elements from different periods to create unique musical textures. This research focuses on Terry Riley’s String Quartet, G Song. The research will be divided into two parts. The first part introduces Riley’s life and the background of G Song. The second part focuses on music analysis, including the musical structure “Two forms in one work”; The harmony “Unresolved Dissonance”; The rhythm “Metric Modulation”; The baroque “Canon”; The modern “Pointillism”. The purpose of this study is to discuss how Riley combined classicism and modernism into a work, and discuss why the statement “Terry Riley is considered as minimalist” would be ignoring part of his story.