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The heart of music; the story of the violin, 1906
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1sidered purely secular instruments. Nero had possessed some of them, and they, like stringed instruments, had become associated with evil and dowered with wild records. It was not until the eleventh century that the organ was introduced into church ceremonies. Occasionally, however, some friar or prelate, like the good monk Thotilo or Notker Balbulus of St. Gall, gave up the best of his days to the development of music, and nearly all the monasteries did much toward completing and sustaining the art of musical construction and notation. It was the Heart of Music, the stringed lyricism of the world, which was shut away. That was bound to wait for another swing of the pendulum, though the pedantry and academical austerity of the very monks who condemned it were building the foundations for its future dwelling.
3The first bow instruments of Southern Europe appeared in the eleventh century, played by wandering singers and some few more exalted minstrels. But meanwhile another little embryo violin had been flourishing in the North for nearly four centuries, and this fact brings us to the second theory concerning the growth of the violin.
5Venantius Fortunatus, Bishop of Poitiers, says:
7"Let the Roman delight in his lyre, the barbarian in his harp,
8The Greek in the lyre of his heroes, the Briton in his Chrotta."
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