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The violin & its story : or, the history & construction of the violin, 1905
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1CONTENTS.
3PART I.
5THE MOST ANCIENT FORM OF BOWED INSTRUMENTS: THE RAVANASTRON, 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, JUDENKÜNIG, ETC. PRÆTORIUS ON STRINGED INSTRUMENTS AT THE BEGINNING OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY … … …
7PART II.
9THE OLDEST MASTERS OF THE ART OF THE LUTEMAKER: JOAN KERLINO, 1449; PIETRO DARDELLI, 1500; KASPAR DUIFFOPRUGAR, 1510; ETC., ETC. SCHOOL OF BRESCIA—THE FIRST VIOLIN MAKERS, GASPAR DA SALO, J. P. MAGGINI, ETC. SCHOOL OF CREMONA—THE AMATI, ANT. STRADIVARIO (STRADIVARIUS), GIUSEPPE GUARNERIO (GUARNERIUS). PUPILS OF THESE MASTERS. THE SCHOOLS OF MILAN, VENICE, ETC. THE GERMAN SCHOOL: JACOBUS STAINER, ALBANI, M. KLOTZ, ETC. FOUNDING OF THE ART AT MITTENWALD. GERMAN MASTERS WHO FOLLOWED THE ITALIANS, OR COPIED STAINER. FRENCH MASTERS: LUPOT, GAND, VUILLAUME. THE FORTUNES OF THE ART OF VIOLIN MAKING, FROM STAINER TO THE PRESENT TIME. THE EXPERIMENTS OF THE VARIOUS MASTERS; SAVART'S INVESTIGATIONS. THE DECLINE OF THE VIOLIN MAKER'S ART, AND ITS CAUSES.
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