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Scan 45
The Violin and its Music, 1881
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1been but a modification of the Geige if not actually the instrument itself. This fact, taken together with the German-sounding names of the early Viol makers located in Italy, and the magnitude of Viol manufacture in Nuremburg, Königsburg, and Hamburgh, as compared with that of Italy, seems fully to justify the throwing of these side lights upon the question; and thus giving to the Germans more credit than their direct evidence entitles them to receive in relation to the part they took in the formation of the leading instrument.
3It is, however, needless to pursue this branch of our subject further, since, when all has been said, we must admit that whatever shape the Teutonic Fiddle assumed towards the middle of the sixteenth century, it must have been rude and gross when compared with that of the Italians a few years later; for the art of making Viols and Violins, whether of three or four strings, followed in the march of Painting, Poetry, and all the Arts, to Italy, there to receive that artistic grace and completeness which no other nation but the Italian could bestow.
5The cursory view we have taken of the progress of Music in Germany, in the preceding pages, may help the reader to a better understanding of the earlier steps in that branch of the Art which mainly interests us; and enable him to gauge its development generally among the Germans. Sufficient has been said to show that the progress which made itself felt in Germany with regard to Litera-
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