To browse Academia. The document serves as a handbook focused on the study and teaching of the violin, providing a thorough account of various violinists throughout history. It details methodologies and pedagogic approaches for violin instruction, highlighting critical educational works and transformative figures in the field.
This resource appears to target aspiring violinists and instructors, ultimately aiming to enhance violin playing techniques and appreciation. Teil 2: Musikinstrumentenbau-Zentren im As a matter of fact the first instruments looking like violins appeared in Italian paintings during the very first decades of the sixteenth century, while β when considering the set of instruments made by Andrea Amati or at least attributed to him β the earliest preserved instruments date back probably to its second half.
Over many years of study of medieval bowed instruments, I have developed my own rather original approach to this mid-sixteenth century period. When we observe closely what the documents show us chronogically, admitting every new technical feature only when the proof of its existence is established, some preconceived ideas about the violin can be seriously challenged.
Violins developed through nearly years of music. For renaissance music, they where at first constructed as a family: 1 treble, 3 middle size and 1 or several basses. In the baroque era, they split to privilege a treble violin for sonata and concerto, and the bass violin disappeared to be replaced by the violoncello. Violins and violoncello where played in ensemble music up to the classical period, when the modern viola appears to play quintets and quartets as well as symphonies.
The "modern" violin emerges with larger orchestras. In the 20th century, it was adapted to recording for diffusion on radio, television and disc. We are studying the history of string-making and setup. We will show how the violin works as a system, and link these features to changes that occur in the history of violin playing : the way hair sticks to the bowed strings; the influence of string length on instrument design, the shapes of arching, the evolution of the bow.
