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The violin and its music, 1881
15 lines. Read by computer on 3 September 2026. Printed page 473. See the scan on archive.org.
1admirably engraved, which contains a portrait of his favourite composer.
3The Academy of Ancient Music further developed the work so admirably begun by Thomas Britton in conjunction with Sir Roger L'Estrange. An institution in correspondence with the most eminent musicians abroad, and to which flocked all the greatest resident professors, could not but result in the furtherance of music in this country. Here Bononcini often played the Violoncello, and Geminiani performed and introduced his compositions. In the words of Sir John Hawkins, "The advantages that resulted to music from the exercises of the Academy were evident, in that they tended to the establishment of a true and just notion of the science; they checked the wanderings of fancy, and restrained the love of novelty within due bounds; they enabled the students and performers to contemplate and compare styles; to form an idea of classical purity and elegance; and, in short, to fix the standard of a judicious and rational taste."
5The subject of the following Catch carries us a step further in our narrative:—
7"You scrapers that want a good fiddle, well strung,
8You must go to the man that is old while he's Young;
9But if this same Fiddle, you fain would play bold,
10You must go to his son, who'll be Young when he's old.
11There's old Young and young Young, both men of renown,
12Old sells and Young plays the best Fiddle in town,
13Young and old live together, and may they live long,
14Young to play an old Fiddle; old to sell a new song."
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