The Violin: Its Famous Makers and Their ImitatorsDulau, 1875 - 352 pagina's |
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18th century admired amateur Andrea Antonius Stradiuarius appearance artist Bass beautiful belly belonging born Brescian Carlo Bergonzi character chiefly colour compositions concert connoisseur copies copyist Cremona Cremonese Crwth Date dealer diuarius Double-Bass England English makers evidence excellent famous fecit Fendt Fiddle finger-board finish Forster Gagliano Gaspard di Salo German makers Guadagnini Guarnerius del Jesù hand handsome Hart Haydn imitation instru Italian Italy Jacobus Stainer Johann Joseph Guarnerius known London Lupot luthier Maggini maker of Violins manufacture master mentioned ments merit Mirecourt Montagnana musician never Nicholas Amati original Paganini Panormo Paris passed pattern period player possession pupil purfling quartetts remarkable Sanctus Seraphino scarcely Schnapps scroll Signor Sonatas sound sound-hole sound-post specimens Stra Strad stringed instruments style Tarisio Tenor tion tone varnish Venice Violas Violin makers Violin playing Violinist Violoncello Viols Viotti Vuillaume wood workmanship
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Pagina 90 - Fill'd with the face of heaven, which, from afar Comes down upon the waters, all its hues, From the rich sunset to the rising star, Their magical variety diffuse ; And now they change ; a paler shadow strews Its mantle o'er the mountains; parting day Dies like the dolphin, whom each pang imbues With a new colour as it gasps away, The last still loveliest, till — 'tis gone — and all is gray.
Pagina 315 - I told him that it affected me to such a degree, as often to agitate my nerves painfully, producing in my mind alternate sensations of pathetic dejection, so that I was ready to shed tears ; and of daring resolution, so that I was inclined to rush into the thickest part of the battle. " Sir," said he, " I should never hear it, if it made me such a fool.
Pagina 122 - That plain white-aproned man who stood at work Patient and accurate full fourscore years, Cherished his sight and touch by temperance, And since keen sense is love of perfectness Made perfect violins, the needed paths For inspiration and high mastery.
Pagina 337 - The sunshine painted with a squirt). Of books but few — some fifty score For daily use, and bound for wear; The rest upon an upper floor; Some little luxury there Of red morocco's gilded gleam, And vellum rich as country cream. Busts, cameos, gems — such things as these, Which others often show for pride...
Pagina 339 - ... manner as that it shall seem to breathe the first tone it gives, which must proceed from the friction of the string, and not from percussion, as by a blow given with a hammer upon it. This depends on laying the bow lightly upon the strings, at the first contact, and .on gently pressing it afterwards ; which, if done gradually, can scarce have too much force given to it — -because, if the tone is 'begun with delicacy, there is little danger of rendering it afterwards either coarse or harsh.
Pagina 201 - John Simpson at the Bass Viol and Flute in Sweeting's Alley, opposite the east door of the Royal Exchange.
Pagina 273 - Music is usually reckoned one of the liberal arts, and not unjustly ; but a man of fashion, who is seen piping or fiddling at a concert, degrades his own dignity. If you love music, hear it ; pay fiddlers to play to you, but never fiddle yourself. It makes a gentleman appear frivolous and contemptible, leads him frequently into bad company, and wastes that time which might otherwise be well employed.
Pagina 316 - That is indeed but little for a man to get, who does best that which so many endeavour to do. There is nothing, I think, in which the power of art is shown so much as in playing on the fiddle. In all other things we can do something at first. Any man will forge a bar of iron if you give him a hammer ; not so well as a smith, but tolerably. A man will saw a piece of wood and make a box, though a clumsy one ; but give him a fiddle and a fiddle-stick, and he can do nothing.
Pagina 241 - He went in, and very soon bought it for about forty francs. He then ascertained that the bass belonged to a lady of rank. The belly was full of cracks; so, not to make two bites of a cherry, Ortega had made a nice new one. Chanot carried this precious fragment home and hung it up in his shop, but not in the window, for he is too good a judge not to know the sun will take all the colour out of that maker's varnish. Tarisio came in from Italy, and his eye lighted instantly on the Stradiuarius belly.
Pagina 224 - ... the rushing bow of their lord and leader. Into lonely prisons with improvident artists ; into convents from which arose, day and night, the holy hymns with which its tones were blended...