The Origin And Evolution Of Violin As A Musical Instrument And Its Contribution To The Progressive Flow Of Indian Classical Music In Search Of The Historical Roots Of Violin

Author : Sisirkana Dhar Choudhury
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ISBN 13 : 9789380568065
Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book The Origin and Evolution of Violin as a Musical Instrument and Its Contribution to the Progressive Flow of Indian Classical Music: In search of the historical roots of violin written by Sisirkana Dhar Choudhury and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Edmund S. J. van der Straeten
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Total Pages : 468 pages
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Download or read book The History of the Violin written by Edmund S. J. van der Straeten and published by . This book was released on 1933 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Olga Racster
Publisher : Watchmaker Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781929148240
Total Pages : 236 pages
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Download or read book History and Craft Of The Violin Prior To 1900 written by Olga Racster and published by Watchmaker Publishing. This book was released on 2003-05 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Edmund S. J. van der Straeten
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 524 pages
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Download or read book The History of the Violin written by Edmund S. J. van der Straeten and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : K Marie Stolba
Publisher : Da Capo Press, Incorporated
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Total Pages : 302 pages
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Download or read book A History Of The Violin Etude To About 1800 written by K Marie Stolba and published by Da Capo Press, Incorporated. This book was released on 1979-11-21 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Walter Bulkeley Coventry
Publisher : Albert Saifer Publisher
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Total Pages : 176 pages
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Download or read book Notes on the Construction of the Violin written by Walter Bulkeley Coventry and published by Albert Saifer Publisher. This book was released on 1902 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Sarah Gilbert Pickett
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Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book Tradition and Innovation in American Violin Making written by Sarah Gilbert Pickett and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation takes an organological, historical, and ethnographic approach to the study of innovative violin making in the twenty-first century. The violin is a long-established icon as well as a tool for the production of sound, and consequently, attempts to alter its traditional form have been largely dismissed. While many makers have produced innovative violin models, the instrument has retained its basic form since its invention nearly five centuries ago. The search for a modern violin form based in scientific ideals was reignited in the mid-twentieth century, however, as scientists and musicians continued to work toward the construction of modernized forms employing the latest technology and acoustical research. Through interviews with innovative violin and bow makers, and organological studies of their instruments, this study explores the musical, financial, technological, and environmental reasons that these modern luthiers are challenging long-held traditions. This study explores the tensions between historicism and experimentation in a conservative field, raising issues of prestige structures and status symbols, real versus symbolic capital, and the arbitrariness of cultural values. The significance of musical instruments lies not merely in their existence as static artifacts but in the complex relationships that exist among the instruments, musicians, and societies. In considering both traditional and innovative instruments, an ethnographic study of living luthiers complements the study of the sociohistorical context of past makers and their instruments, allowing for an examination of the continued tensions of traditionalism, innovation, and ecological concerns in violin making across time. Musical instruments are often seen as being ancillary, rather than a crucial component, in the development of musical styles. In acting as an extension of the human performer, however, the instrument can be manipulated to expand and enrich sonic capabilities, thereby participating in the creation of musical culture. While I do not argue that instruments can be active agents in this process, because they require human mediation, they can certainly modify the ways in which one conceptualizes and produces music. While most keyboard and wind instruments have undergone significant modifications since their inventions in order to adapt to changing repertoire, new technology, and larger performance spaces, the instruments of the violin family have remained largely unchanged since the transition from the Baroque to the standardized form universally used today, when the neck and fingerboard were slightly elongated and steel strings were introduced. Attempts to improve or alter the structure of the violin have often been rejected by both performers and luthiers, who have long held sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Cremonese instruments as the ideal form. During the Industrial Revolution in the nineteenth century many European luthiers created experimental violin models in attempts to improve the instrument's acoustics and to employ production methods using newly available technology. While many of these new violins were praised by musicians, composers, and acousticians for their quality of sound, playability, and ease of production, these innovative instruments of the nineteenth century all eventually fell out of use, becoming novelties in museums and auction houses rather than fixtures in concert halls. In this dissertation I explore the mythology surrounding the violin, especially its early history in Cremona, research innovation and experimentation in modern violin making, cover the history of American violin making along with my own experience in the field, and interview American makers who are currently working to innovate and modernize the craft to adapt to the twenty-first century.

Author : Edmund Sebastian Joseph van der Straeten
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 889 pages
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Download or read book The History of the Violin written by Edmund Sebastian Joseph van der Straeten and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 889 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Carl David Nyman
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Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book 1. History of the Development of the Violin 2. Construction of the Violin 3. Repairs of the Violin (string Instruments) written by Carl David Nyman and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The origin of all stringed instruments is lost in the midst of time, and despite the most patient and laborious research on the part of famous savants, no positive information has as yet been furnished regarding this point . Knowledge of the subject is more or less conjectural, and all that has been definitely established is the existence of the predecessors of the violin - the English crewth, a six stringed bowed instrument which is conspicuous for its rectangular shape, which is strongly reminiscent of the Greek kithara; the rebec, an instrument in the shape of an elongated pear having two strings tuned a fifth apart and played with a bow; the viola da Gamba , an instrument held on or between the legs and played with a bow and usually having six strings; the Arabian rebab, an instrument that is found in various shapes, e.g. elongated boat , halved pear, trapezoid, rectangle, and usually with three strings; the vielle played with the bow, having four strings and a drone string; and the organistrum, a medieval stringed instrument, shaped somewhat like a lute or viol, whose strings were put in vibration by a rotating rosined wheel. This instrument usually had four unfingered strings which produced a drone, and two fingered strings .Caspar A. Duiffopruggar, named Tieffenbrucker, a Bavarian who became nationalized Frenchman, was long reputed to be the first maker of violins, but according to Vidal, Bachmann (1925) all the so-called Duiffopruggar violins are spurious, having been made by Vuillaume, who in 1827, conceived the idea of making violins after the pattern of a viola d'amour built by the former. Vidal estimates that Duiffopruggar worked in Paris from approximately 1515 to 1530, but in spite of the contentions that he was a wonderful artist at inlay work, there is absolutely no proof existing of the authenticity of the violins he is said to have made. The creation of the violin as it is today concerning its shape is veiled in a mystery which the most ardent discussions on the part of specialists have not been able to solve. It is possible the paternity of the violin may be conceded to Gasparo da Salo, although it is more probable that Amati of Cremona and Maggini of Brescia may be considered the first to give the violin its present form; and in all events, the instruments made by the famous builders according to Bachmann (1925) are authentic in all their parts .According to Farga (1940) it is with Gasparo da Salo that we enter for the first time the field of recorded history in violin-making. That da Salo made instruments at Brescia from 1560 to the year of his death, 1609 , is indisputable. Whether the first violins were made by Maggini , da Salo, or by Andrea Amati, the fact remains that they originated during that period. The violins of da Salo were well built, although their appearance does not show the perfection of the later makers. His violins have backs of first class maple, low ribs, large F-hole s , and a dark brown translucent varnish .Giovanni Paolo Maggini was the most important of da Salo's pupils. Farga {1940) states that he took over da Salo's workshop after the latter's death. By that time , the name of Brescia had become famous all over the world owing to da Salo's instruments . Maggini never ceased experimenting, and improving over da Salo's models. Unfortunately, very few of Maggini's instruments have survived, but those that have stand up to modern requirements. Their tone carries well and dominates even a large orchestra, yet in solo work they can produce a somewhat melancholy timbre.

Author : Audrey Avis Aasen
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 224 pages
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Download or read book The Violin Concerto written by Audrey Avis Aasen and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: