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Scan 52
The violin and its music, 1881
6 lines. Read by computer on 10 September 2026. Printed page 32. See the scan on archive.org.
1the favourite amusement of their holydays in composing and enacting tragedies or farces, reciting their own verses, or in personifying moral and aesthetic sentiments by ingeniously arranged groups or gorgeous habiliments. The cramoisy velvets and yellow satin doublets of the court, the gold brocaded mantles of priests and princes, are often but vulgar drapery of little historic worth. Such costumes thrown around the swart figures of hard-working artisans, for literary and artistic purposes, have a real significance and are worthy of a closer examination."
3The taste for the drama and music was thus stimulated among a large and important section of the population, and its effects were not only felt by those brought under its immediate influence, but extended to others at a more distant date. Here we have the body of a people deriving pleasure from pursuits which in other countries failed to enlist often-times the sympathies of the higher classes. When we reflect for a moment upon this evidence of culture we cannot fail to recognise its vast importance.
5Associated with these Chambers of Rhetoric was an order that combined Oratory with Music, the original of which is apparently traceable to the Mastersingers of Germany. At Louvain, where the standard of culture was seemingly elevated, the city possessing a University as early as the year 1423, wherein the Law, Medicine, Theology, and the Arts were cultivated, existed at the close of the fifteenth century a "Musical Society" which could
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