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Scan 115
The heart of music; the story of the violin, 1906
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1The Heart of Music
3against the world, and even the elements were looked upon as conspiring enemies, music played a strange, crude, but very vital part.
5Butler says, in his "Hudibras":
7"I' the midst of all this warlike rabble
8Crowden marched, expert and able."
10Crowden, of course, means fiddlers, — the players of crowds or crwths.
12Religion was of course pantheistic, as with all barbaric races. The Teutonic gods — Wodin, Freio, Thor, and the rest — were worshipped, as well as other even more mystical and picturesque deities — Eostre, the dawn goddess, Weland the Forger, Egil the Archer, Nicor, the shy, sly spirit of springs and pools, and Wyrd, the terrible and mysterious Woman of Death.
14Giraldus Cambrensis tells us that the tuning of the crwth was as follows:
161 2 3 4 5 6
18the last two strings being open. A few experimental variations (if so they could be called!) on these three notes are very suggestive of the character of the music originally played upon this instrument. The only combinations possible are
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