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The history of the violin, and other instruments played on with the bow from the remotest times to the present. Also, an account of the principal makers, English and foreign, with numerous illustrations, 1864
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1HISTORY OF THE VIOLIN.
3De tous giex sot a grant plenté;
4Plein fu de debonnaireté,
5Por ce qui il est de si bons sens,
6Disoient li gent à son tens,
7Que il ert dex des jugléors
8Et dex de tos les chantéors."
10In or about the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries there are numerous examples. From the "Estoire de Troie le Grant," Roquefort, "De la Poesie Françoise," &c. quotes:—
12"N'orgue, harpe, ne chyfonie,
13Rote, vielle, et armonie,
14Sautier, cymbale et tympanon,
15Monocorde, lire et coron,
16Ses sont li xii instrument
17Que il sonne si doucement."
19Also from "Roman de la Poire,"—
21"Et si i ot à grant planté
22Estrument de divers mestiers,
23Estives, harpes, et sautiers,
24Vieles, gygues, et rotes,
25Qui chantoient diverses notes."
27In a romance by Guiraud de Cabrera, the following instruments are mentioned together:—
29"L'us menet arpa, l'autre viula,
30L'us flautella, l'autre siula;
31L'us mena giga, l'autre rota."
33In the "Romance of Cleomades,"—
35"Plenté d'estrumens y avoit;
36Vieles et salterions,
37Harpes et rotes et canons
38Et estivos de Cornouaille."
40Guillaume de Machault, of the fourteenth century, in "Le Tems Pastour," has a very long list of instruments:—
42"Mais qui véist après mangier
43Venir menestreux sans dangier
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