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The Violin and its Music, 1881
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1ture, at the close of the fifteenth century, was probably not greater than that of Music at the same period. The Schools and Universities, the formation of Public Libraries, the encouragement of intellectual and liberal Princes, all tended, however indirectly, to give an impulse to the Art, which seems to have been borne rapidly onwards; when the wars broke forth which devastated the land and checked its course, leaving the Germans to seek advanced musical knowledge in the Schools of Italy, which, in the meantime, had made extraordinary strides under the original guidance of the Musicians of Germany and the Netherlands.
3It is at this point, therefore, we must leave the Viol Gothic, and follow the course of Viol History among the Netherlanders and Italians, and next take up the German thread of our subject after the period of the Thirty Years' War.
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