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Scan 65
The violin and its music, 1881
4 lines. Read by computer on 3 September 2026. Printed page 43. See the scan on archive.org.
1book on music ever printed, which assumed the shape of a dictionary. At Rome, about the same period, Josquin was busy with his art at the Chapel of Pope Sixtus IV., and later we hear of him at the Court of Hercules the first Duke of Ferrara. At Florence, Lorenzo the Magnificent was giving every encouragement to promote the advancement of music; he secured the services of Heinrich Isaac (a Netherlander by education if not by birth) to instruct his children, and thus did his son Giovanni begin to acquire that taste for music for which he was so famous as Pope Leo X. At Mantua Jaques Berchem was appointed to the post of chapel-master in the Duke's chapel. And lastly, at Venice, appeared Adrian Willaert to instruct its people in music, and share in that progress which the Venetians were beginning to make in the fields of art and learning. It would not be difficult to multiply these instances of princely patronage, and of the high positions awarded to the musicians of the Low Countries, but those already given amply suffice to mark the degree of esteem in which they were held by the Italian nation, and the artistic devotion of its many princes. If we desire further evidence of the influence of the musicians of the Low Countries at this period, we have but to turn to the printing press of Petrucci, at Venice, and we discover that nearly the whole of the works printed by it for several years, were those of Netherlanders.
3With the early years of the sixteenth century
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