Scan 345
History of American music (The American history and encyclopedia of music), 1910
14 lines. Read by computer on 11 September 2026, twice; the two readings disagreed in places. No printed page number was found. See the scan on archive.org.
1instrument was played. Meyerbeer wrote a solo part for the viola d'amour in Les Huguenots. The softening of the tone by the sympathetic strings and the manner of their vibrations suggested the name. It is now practically obsolete.
3Leopold Mozart refers to the viola d'amour as the English violet, as does Albrechtsberger also. It was the tenor size of a series of instruments with sympathetic strings which were only useful in solos, which fact is the secret of their short life. They were the latest development of the viols and date from the Sixteenth Century. See viol.
5VIOLA DA SPALLA—Bowed Strings. Europe. The large and lower tenor viola da spalla was due to the fact that the instrument was played upon the knee, the head being placed over the left shoulder. The strings were six in number, and the head was given by Bach to a five-stringed viol of larger size. It is now entirely obsolete, although compositions for it by Bach are extant. See viol. one of two readings
6VIOLA DA SPALLA—Bowed Strings. Europe. The large and lower tenor viola da spalla was due to the fact that the instrument was played upon the knee, the head being placed over the left shoulder. The strings were six in number, and the instrument was given by Bach to a five-stringed viol of larger size. It is now entirely obsolete, although compositions for it by Bach are extant. See viol. one of two readings
8VIOL FAMILY.
9Property of The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
11In the center is a violin and about it are grouped what may be considered its prototypes. Beginning at the left of the top row and continuing in a circle the instruments are, the Japanese Kokin; the Chinese Erh H'sien, resembling the Hindu Ravanostrom; the fiddle of the Apache Indians, North America; the Rebab, found in Arabia and Syria; the Kemangeh, found in Persia, Arabia, and Northern Africa; the Hindu Sarinda; the Burmese Thro; the Hindu Sarangi; the Hindu Sarungi; and a Viola d'Amore.
13VIOLIN—Bowed Strings. Europe. From the Sixteenth Century, Italy was rich in violin makers. In Brescia and Cremona were long lines of masters, pupils acquiring the knowledge of teachers. Gaspar da Salo, Mariani, and Bente made Brescia prominent for nearly a century. In consequence, violin composition comes into evidence about 1630 and violin playing attained prominence during the same century. Then the art of playing this instrument was as generally understood as pianoforte playing is today, and the
The computer misreads some letters and numbers. Where a name matters to you, read the scan.