THE V I O LIN AND ITS MUSIC, GEORGE HART, "HE VIOLIN: ITS ...

CONTENTS.
CHAPTER I.-Roger North's Early History of the Viol, the" Memoires
of Music"-The Gothic Viol-germ in France, Italy and Spain­
SECTION I.-THE VIOL GOTHIC.
CHAPTER H.-Influence of the Mastersingers on \Vestcrn Civilization;
The Anglo-Saxons and their Music-The Spanish Violars;
The Troubadours; The Minnesingers and !lIastersingers ...
their home in Kuremberg ; Hans Sachs; Paul Hofhaimer; Albert
Durer; Hans Frey; Fritz Gedes-The Germans earliest in
practical Composition-Franco's Time Table, lIth century­
Luscinius' estimate of Hofhaimer-Heinrich Isaac-Emperor
:'IIaximilian-Albert V. Duke of Bavaria, his Music Establishment
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in Munich-Montaigne on the use of Viols in Churches-Earliest
Book on the Viol, by Carmine Angurelli, 149I-Earliest Instru­
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mental l\Iusic in Parts-Hans Syngriner, 1523-The German
Fretted Geige, the Basis of the Viol... 9
Hr.-Bowed Instruments among the Anglo-Saxons in France,
Spain, amI Italy at the fall of the Roman Empire-The Fithell, the
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Rebec, and the Geige-The "vIoclern Violin, first traces of, by Brescian
and Cremonese Makers, and its connection with Viols-Gaspard di
Salo, Dardelli, and Andrew Amati--;-The Madrigal, its Cradle in
the Netherlands-The Nebulous Period of the Musical Art­
Earliest Makers of the Viol in Italy ; Joan Kerlin; Dcliffoprugcar
-Italy and Germany's early claims compared
CHAPTER SECTION n.-THE VIOL IN THE NETHERLANDS.
I.-Flemish Skill in the Fine Arts-Progress of the Arts in the
Low Countries in the 15th century-The Van Eycks, Okeghem,
and J osquin Despres-Jean de !II uris and Notation by Points­
Early Associations and Guilds of Rhetoric-A Musical Society at
Louvain, 15th century-Okeghem and the New School of
Flemish Music; his Canons, Masses, and Motetts .. . 27
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