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Scan 194
The Violin and its Music, 1881
2 lines. Read by computer on 3 September 2026. Printed page 170. See the scan on archive.org.
1For information relative to the progress of instrumental music at Naples, the work of Scipione Cerreto, entitled "Della Prattica Musica, Vocale e Strumentale," published in 1601, contains much that is interesting. This work was issued but six years prior to the production of Monteverde's opera L'Orfeo, in which, as already noticed, the Violin is used; and earlier instances of its use have also been given. Yet Cerreto makes no reference to the instrument, from which it would seem that it had no place in the music of Naples, unless it was in that of street minstrelsy, and therefore beneath the writer's notice.
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