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The history of the violin, and other instruments played on with the bow from …, 1864
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1ecclesiastical use. In the Council of Cloveshoe, 747, it was decreed that "ex monasteriis citharistae aliique fidicines expellerentur;" and St. Jerome says, "fidicinas et psaltrias et hujusmodi chorum diaboli quasi mortifera sirenarum carmina proturba ex ædibus tuis." The
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9Abbot Amalarius, in the early part of the ninth century as cited by Gerbert, referring to the expression required in singers, says—implying the absence of any instruments,—"Nostri cantores non tenent cymbala, neque lyram, neque citharam manibus, neque caætera genera musicorum, sed corde. Quanto cor maius est corpore, tanto Deo devotius exhibetur, quod per cor fit, quam per corpus, ipsi cantores sunt tuba, ipsi psalterium, ipsi
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