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The Violin and its Music, 1881
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1CONTENTS.
3SECTION I.—THE VIOL GOTHIC.
5CHAPTER I.—Roger North's Early History of the Viol, the "Memoires of Music"—The Gothic Viol-germ in France, Italy and Spain—The Anglo-Saxons and their Music—The Spanish Violars; The Troubadours; The Minnesingers and Mastersingers … … 1
7CHAPTER II.—Influence of the Mastersingers on Western Civilization; their home in Nuremberg; Hans Sachs; Paul Hofhaimer; Albert Durer; Hans Frey; Fritz Gerles—The Germans earliest in practical Composition—Franco's Time Table, 11th century—Luscinius' estimate of Hofhaimer—Heinrich Isaac—Emperor Maximilian—Albert V. Duke of Bavaria, his Music Establishment in Munich—Montaigne on the use of Viols in Churches—Earliest Book on the Viol, by Carmine Angurelli, 1491—Earliest Instrumental Music in Parts—Hans Syngriner, 1523—The German Fretted Geige, the Basis of the Viol … … … … 9
9CHAPTER III.—Bowed Instruments among the Anglo-Saxons in France, Spain, and Italy at the fall of the Roman Empire—The Fithell, the Rebec, and the Geige—The Modern Violin, first traces of, by Brescian and Cremonese Makers, and its connection with Viols—Gaspard di Salo, Dardelli, and Andrew Amati—The Madrigal, its Cradle in the Netherlands—The Nebulous Period of the Musical Art—Earliest Makers of the Viol in Italy; Joan Kerlin; Duiffoprugcar—Italy and Germany's early claims compared … … … 17
11SECTION II.—THE VIOL IN THE NETHERLANDS.
13CHAPTER I.—Flemish Skill in the Fine Arts—Progress of the Arts in the Low Countries in the 15th century—The Van Eycks, Okeghem, and Josquin Després—Jean de Muris and Notation by Points—Early Associations and Guilds of Rhetoric—A Musical Society at Louvain, 15th century—Okeghem and the New School of Flemish Music; his Canons, Masses, and Motetts … … … 27
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