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The Story of the Violin, 1914
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1CHAPTER XIII.
3THE VIOLIN.
5So the time had drawn near when our violin was to appear and usurp the sceptre in instrumental music, driving before it—king that it is—all the manifold instruments which represented string music in past ages. It was simplicity once more which conquered complexity. In connection with the viola di bordone and the viola d'amour we see this strikingly illustrated. There were other reasons for the coming and the easy conquest of the violin. In conformity with altering art conditions, an instrument was needed of a more pleasing, practical, and easier-handled form than the old violas da braccio (arm viols) offered; next, an instrument which in its tone corresponded perfectly to the soprano voice, which the old treble viols and violettas did not, wherefore a cornet had often to be employed in their stead; and finally an answer was needed to the prophetic knock of time, which knew the world was ready to receive its musical art ideal. The unborn souls of Bach and Handel, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, clamoured at the throne of God to be born into this earth.
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