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Scan 49
The violin and its music, 1881
12 lines. Read by computer on 3 September 2026. Printed page 27. See the scan on archive.org.
1Section III.—The Viol in the Netherlands.
3CHAPTER I.
5"HOLLAND and Flanders, peopled by one race vie with each other in the pursuits of civilization. The Flemish skill in the mechanical and in the Fine Arts is unrivalled. Belgian Musicians delight and instruct other nations. Belgian pencils have for a century caused the canvas to glow with colours and combinations never seen before."*
7Such is the historian's account of the condition of the Arts in the Netherlands at the close of the fifteenth century. With whatever hesitation we may at first feel disposed to accept such an estimate of Belgic progress, enquiry will banish all doubt as to its correctness. To be sceptical is at least pardonable when it is remembered how frequently we have been led to regard Italy as the sole cradle of the Arts.
9In lifting the veil which has hidden the inner life of the people of the Low Countries, about the period of the Renaissance, merit long denied them has been made theirs beyond all question. That this has been the case with regard to their Music
11* Motley's "Rise of the Dutch Republic."
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