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Scan 36
The violin and its music, 1881
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1it must not be forgotten that the Council of Trent had already been discussing the subject of Church reform in its relation to music, and had probably banished them from the service. Whether Viols took part in the music of Hofhaimer, Lassus, and other men of the time, I know not, but I am inclined to believe they helped the vocal. Be that as it may, it is certain that Viol tablature existed in Germany, the Netherlands, France, Italy, and in England. Whether the Viols of these countries were identical is a question to be considered later.
3The earliest book on the Viol I have met with is that of Carmine Angurelli, published at Verona in 1491, now in the possession of Mr. Bernard Quaritch, which contains a woodcut of a seven-stringed Viol without middle bouts, and having a head with the peg arrangement similar to that of the Spanish Guitar, all of which points to a development inferior to that depicted by Albert Durer in the hands of the Mastersingers. There is no notation of any kind throughout this early Italian book. A few years later, however, we find Viol tablature issued from a Venetian press. In France as early as 1502, Viol tablature existed, and also a book on the Viol, dated 1547. Notwithstanding that no German Viol book is in existence dated so early as that of the Italian Angurelli, published at Verona in 1491, or those published in France, I do not consider we should therefore credit the French and Italians with a greater knowledge of the instrument. The test of
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