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The violin and its music, 1885
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1Section VI.—The Violin in Italy.
3CHAPTER I.
5HITHERTO our references to the music of the Violin have been but tentative. It is not until we reach the early years of the seventeenth century that we are able to gather information of the Violin taking a part in any way worthy of the title Solo. It is now that its great future begins to be foreshadowed in the works of men whose names are for the most part unfamiliar to us. How few Violinists have heard the name of Paolo Quagliati! Yet to him is traceable probably the first solo for the instrument, which he called a Toccata, having an accompaniment for a large Lute. To describe this Toccata as a Violin solo is, perhaps, not unlike calling the Marquis of Worcester's infantile engine a locomotive, since the disparity is as marked between Quagliati's Violin composition and the solos of Corelli, as between the machine of the Marquis of Worcester and that of George Stephenson; yet, withal, the Toccata is the earliest known example of the Violin solo.
7Biagio Marini, a native of Brescia, appears to have written specially for the Violin, and to have aided the
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