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The Story of the Violin, 1914
10 lines. Read by computer on 18 September 2026. No printed page number was found. See the scan on archive.org.
1Story of the Violin
3But were the times really ready? Let us glance around a little. We stand at the threshold of a new age, there can be no mistake. The surplus animal energy of European nations had partly spent itself in more than a thousand years of incessant, cruel wars. For a time at least Europe draws up the vizor to breathe and look about. Away in the dim distance across the sea looms up America, which is to shift existing laws of gravity, and India beckons the mariner with golden finger. In Germany the art of printing is invented (1450);1 and England sees the last of the Wars of the Roses, and dreams of Shakespeare and an Elizabethan age. What of Italy?
5That remarkable new birth of intellectual and artistic Europe, the Renaissance, had just been ushered in.
7It was blooming in Italy. Everywhere a veritable spring. The magic brush of Fra Angelico had drawn to earth the heavenly host of messengers, angelic robins, nightingales, and thrushes to call it forth. Now Raphael was about to empty his horn of plenty, and Michael Angelo to lay his best at the altar of architecture and sculpture. The air was filled with mystery and rhyme and thought where Dante, Ariosto, and Boccaccio tread. And the divinest of the arts, music, was following that glorious pageant of great men and things; as the red roses—the precious blood of spring—come only late in June to crown all that went before. Palestrina, Carissimi,
91 The art of printing music by means of movable types was invented by Ottavianola Petrucci (born 1466).
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