Vulgar words in The Violin - Its Famous Makers and Their Imitators (Page 1)
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Roger North's "Memoirs of Music"--Martinus Gerbertus, his "De Cantu et Musica Sacra"--Paul Lacroix' "Arts of the Middle Ages"--Earliest known representations of Bowed Instruments, sixth to ninth century--The Manuscript of St. Blasius--The Cheli or Chelys--Saxon Fiddle in the Cottonian Manuscripts, and in Strutt's "Sports and Pastimes"--The early Saxons' love of Music--The Saxon Fithele in the time of the Norman Conquest--The Geige in France, and the Jongleurs, "dancers, jugglers, and buffoons"--Domestic Music in Germany and the Low Countries in the sixteenth century--The Viol and the Madrigal--Music in Italy--Adrian Willaert, "The Father of the Madrigal"--Northern Musicians attracted to Italian Courts--Development of the Madrigal in Italy--High standard of early Italian work, but under German teaching--The Viols of Brensius of Bologna--Silvestro Ganassi, his work on the Viol--Duiffoprugcar and Gasparo da Salo and the development of the Violin--The Fretted Finger-board--The Violono or Bass Viol--Five-stringed Viols--The three-stringed Fiddle, or Geige, attributed to Andrea Amati, altered by the Brothers Mantegazza to a four-stringed Violin--Advent of the four-stringed Violin ascribed to Gasparo da Salo... 12-26 SECTION II.--THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE VIOLIN.
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The evidence we have of the use to which the leading instrument was put in the days of its adolescence is indicative of its having grown up among dancers, jugglers, and buffoons.
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Festing being one day seated at the window of the Orange Coffee House, then at the corner of the Haymarket, observed a very intelligent-looking boy, who was driving an ass and selling brickdust.
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He can scrape, scratch, shake, diminish, increase, flourish, &c.; and he is so delighted with the sound of his own Viol, that an ass would sooner lend his ears to anything than to him; and as a dog shakes a pig, so does he shake a note _by the ear_, and never lets it go till he makes it squeak.