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Musical notes. I. The great composers. II. Violinists and the violin. III. The violin and its history, 1869
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3VIOLINISTS
5AND THE VIOLIN.
7The progress of music, as an art, can hardly be said to form an exception to the rule which holds good in reference to other arts, or even sciences. The beginnings are generally rude in proportion to the want of knowledge, and the absence of civilization. Still, in the case of the polite arts, allowance in some degree must be made for the setting in of peculiar tastes arising out of religious or social influences. Moreover, occasionally, some master spirit considerably in advance of the age in point of intellectuality appears on the scene, and the results of his labours give a sudden impetus which
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