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Scan 14
The story of the violin, 1904
26 lines. Read by computer on 24 September 2026. No printed page number was found. See the scan on archive.org.
1Contents
3CHAPTER VII.
5FIRST BOWED INSTRUMENTS IN EUROPE.
7Arabian and European rebabs—Rebab enters Spain—The family likeness—The oldest European representative—The Welsh crûth—Claims discussed …………………………………………….. 30
9CHAPTER VIII.
11A MEETING.
13Dark period of two centuries—A new kind of bowed instrument appears—Possibly a descendant of the ravanastron—No previous record—Introduced to the bow …………………………………………….. 38
15CHAPTER IX.
17THE MINSTREL AND MUSICIAN IN THE ROMANTIC AGE.
19Strong rule had brought safety—Nightmare of preceding centuries—Troubadours, Minnesänger, and poor minstrels—Playing before the castle—A keen distinction—The Meister song is born and reared—The fiddler draws into the towns—Associations formed …………………………………………….. 44
21CHAPTER X.
23A RETROSPECT.
25More than six hundred years—A poor despised drudge—A poor compensation—How would music have fared?—A mummy—A thing of life and beauty—Harmonic crimes—Demand for instruments—Father to ultimate creation of the violin—Choral singing in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries …………………………………………….. 52
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