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The Violin & Its Story: Or the History & Construction of the Violin, 1905
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1The Violin and its Story.
3PART I.
5The most ancient form of bowed instruments: the Ravanastron, the Omerti, the Rebek, the Crouth. Introduction of the Rebek into western Europe by the Arabs. The gradual development of the Rebek from the tenth to the fifteenth century. Condition of Instrumental Music in the Middle Ages. Sixteenth century authors on music—Virdung, Judenhüng, etc. Praetorius on Stringed Instruments at the beginning of the sixteenth century.
7It is usual to divide musical instruments into four chief classes, according to the method of their construction and the manner in which they are played. These classes are respectively named Stringed Instruments, Keyboard Instruments, Wind Instruments, and Instruments of Percussion. The group of stringed instruments is again divided into those in which the strings are plucked, and those in which the strings are played by a bow; and the purpose of the following pages is to set forth the history and construction of the chief of the latter class, viz., The Violin. It is not without good reason that we confine our attention exclusively to the violin as the chief of the whole class of stringed instruments. For, in the first place, the class of plucked or pulled string instruments, such as the guitar and lute, being of so much less importance than the fiddle, whether as regards their construction or their place in the orchestra, they cannot be treated as at all in the same category as the latter; one of two readings
8It is usual to divide musical instruments into four chief classes, according to the method of their construction and the manner in which they are played. These classes are respectively named Stringed Instruments, Keyboard Instruments, Wind Instruments, and Instruments of Percussion. The group of stringed instruments is again divided into those in which the strings are plucked, and those in which the strings are played by a bow; and the purpose of the following pages is to set forth the history and construction of the chief of the latter class, viz., THE VIOLIN. It is not without good reason that we confine our attention exclusively to the violin as the chief of the whole class of stringed instruments. For, in the first place, the class of plucked or pulled string instruments, such as the guitar and lute, being of so much less importance than the fiddle, whether as regards their construction or their place in the orchestra, they cannot be treated as at all in the same category as the latter; one of two readings
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