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the history of the violin, 1864
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1CHAPTER XII.
3IN 1717, the Corporation of Musicians in France had their privileges renewed under Louis XV. Lutes, violins, viols, and all wind or stringed instruments could only be made or played on by members of the Corporation, under penalty of 300 livres and forfeiture of the instruments. They were poor, however, as a body, and declared to the king that their poverty prevented them from paying the usual tribute at the time of the coronation.
5Gerbert, in his valuable work "De Cantu," &c., says that stringed instruments were introduced into churches about the end of the seventeenth century, and that Campra was the first who brought them into use at Notre Dame, Paris; and they then only required two or three bass-viols or bass-violins for the continued basses, and as many violins for the preludes and ritornelles. Before this time the music in the chapel royal was confined to wind instruments. Laborde says the first masses in Italy with violins and basses, were about 1650. Tarquin Merula, master of the chapel at Bergamo, is named as one of the first musicians who introduced viols and violins into the church service in Italy, in aid of choral singing. There was great objection to their use at first, in the fear that it would tend to make the
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