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The heart of music; the story of the violin, 1906
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1XI. — The Lute Maker of Tyrol
3THE bow instrument, thanks to the troubadours and to the patronage of the viol by the aristocracy, was now ready to take a more prominent place in the world. Though the violin was not yet a thing finished and perfected, it was growing into its complete beauty and its full power. The day of its crowning was not far distant. To reach that height of art upon which her single violin was to incarnate the abstract glory of music, there was one essential middle ground to be crossed,—that of stringed orchestras, the bow instruments in the aggregate, the apotheosis not of the violin but of violins.
5From the beginning of musical history there had been stringed instruments; notably, as we may remember, in Egypt and Assyria; but the first organised orchestras of viols and other bow instruments were probably established under the patronage of the German nobles of the fifteenth century. These private orchestras were used for feasts and merry-making, like the music of the jongleurs, but their mission was a trifle more extended; they played important parts in the
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