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Scan 68
The violin and its music, 1881
6 lines. Read by computer on 3 September 2026. Printed page 46. See the scan on archive.org.
1then living at Venice are performed; in the first conversation the interlocutors are Michele, Hoste, Bago, and Grullone, all performers, who sing madrigals and songs by Claudio Veggio and Vincenzo Russo. In the second conversation, instruments are joined to the voices, Antonio de Lucca first playing a voluntary on the Lute, then Buzzino il Violone,* Bosso Battista, Doni, and others play on Viols; Doni also refers to the superior state of music in his time, compared with that of any former period. "There are musicians now" he remarks, "who, if Josquin were to return to this world, would make him cross himself. In former times people used to dance with their hands in their pockets, and if one could give another a fall, he was thought a wit and a dexterous fellow; Heinrich Isaac then set the songs, and was thought a master, at present he would hardly be thought a scholar." That great progress in music had been made admits of no doubt whatever, but that Doni was carried away by enthusiasm in making this reference to Isaac was evidently the opinion of Dr. Burney, who supplements it with a quotation. "Hannibal," says Captain Bluff, "was a very pretty fellow in those days it must be granted. But, alas, Sir! were he alive now, he would be nothing! nothing in the earth!"
3The difference of conditions under which music
5* This instrument was a Double Bass having five or six strings, and had frets like the lute.
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