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The History Of The Violin, 1864
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1qualia sunt cytharæ, viellæ et phialæ, psalteria, chori, monochordum, symphonia seu organistrum et his similia." In "Promptorium Parvulorum" (about 1440), fydyll and fyyele (viol) are Latinized, viella, fidicina, vitula; while crowde is called chorus.
3The viol, or vielle on the Continent, was the name most commonly used for instruments of this description, and viol, indeed, has descended to the present time, while vielle, about the fifteenth century, became applied to an instrument the parent of our hurdy-gurdy, which was originally called the organistrum, and symphonie, or ciphonie. This was clearly a different instrument from the rote, being frequently mentioned at the same time. The celebrated Blæthgabreat played on the rote and the symphonie, and in the "Romance d'Alexandre," quoted by Ducange (voce rota) "Rote, harpe, vielle et gigue et ciphonie," appear together. In that curious composition, "Les Deux Troveors Ribauz," of about the thirteenth century (which may be found in "Œuvres de Rutebeuf," i. 335-7), being a dispute between two trouveres, or minstrels, as to their qualifications; one of them says to his opponent,—
5"Sez-tu nule riens de citole,
6Ne de vile, ne de gigue?
7Tu ne sez vaillant une figue."
9To which the answer is,—
11"Ge te dirai que je sai faire:
12Ge suis juglères de vile,
13Si sai de muse et de frestele,
14Et de harpe et de chifonie,
15De la gigue, de l'armonie,
16De l'salteire, et en la rote
17Sai-ge bien chanter une note."
19He then goes on to say he can raise spirits, and perform
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