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The Violin and its Music, 1881
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1parts, termed a Moresca, a kind of Moorish dance. In the list of accompanying instruments we have Contrabassi di Viola, the Viola de brazzo, and Duoi Violini piccoli alla Francese.
3To Monteverde we owe the introduction of pizzicato in its relation to bowed instruments, and also rapid staccato bowing. He informs us that the novel and formidable appearance of the latter passages in his music so alarmed the members of his orchestra, that they at first declined to attempt to render them.
5It will readily be seen that this staccato, apportioned between four Violists, was singularly juvenile in comparison with De Beriot's tremolo variations on the Thèma in Beethoven's Septuor! But when we think of a space of upwards of two centuries between the examples, we are well able to understand the feeling of alarm the sight of such a passage would create in the minds of Monteverde's Violists.
7The mention of the two Violins in this opera, with a reference to France, has served to convert them into a bone of contention among Fiddle historians. M. Fétis apparently gathers from it that
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