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The origin of the violin is one of the great lacunae in the history of musical instruments. The v... more The origin of the violin is one of the great lacunae in the history of musical instruments. The violin is the product of a long process of development, the standard form emerging in Brescia and Cremona in the third quarter of the 16th century Two important documents in the early history of the instrument are a painting of 1529 in Vercelli and the fresco of a large angel concert in the dome of the Santuario at Saronno (1534–35), which shows 56 instruments including four showing most of the basic characteristics of the violin as it was later to be standardized. The painter of these works, Guadenzio Ferrari (ca. 1481-1546), was also a sculptor and musician, and he may well have designed and built the violins he depicted. His methods of representation and purposeful departures from true perspective are discussed, as are paintings by various other artists in Western Lombardy.
Papers by Emanuel Winternitz
Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart, vol. 16, 1979
To the memory of Hans van de Waal, magnanimous friend, exemplary humanist and scholar, whose mind... more To the memory of Hans van de Waal, magnanimous friend, exemplary humanist and scholar, whose mind and heart were refined by suffering and persecution: Peregrinando Quaerimus. REMBRANDT'S INTERPRETATIONS of the Bible are often so original and profound, and at the same time so faithful to the text of the scriptures, that his indulgence in a little respectful fun appears to be a rare exception. In the literature on Rembrandt, his etching commonly called "Abraham Entertaining the Angels," signed and dated 1656, is usually discussed because of its relation to a Mohammedan Indian miniature, now in the Louvre, showing four Orientals seated under a tree. Rembrandt copied it in a drawing that is now in the British Museum (Figure I). The four bearded dignitaries, all with heavy turbans, sit in a half circle on a carpet. Two hold cups, one fingers beads, and one rests his arms on his knees. In front, there is a tray with more cups, in the left corner a pitcher. A mountain landscape forms the background. I. Arthur M. Hind, Rembrandt (Cambridge, Mass., 1932) p. 59, points to an entry in Rembrandt's inventory "een dito (boeck) vol curieuse miniatuur teeckeningen," that might indicate a book with Indian miniatures. A. Bredius, however, in Oud-Holland 29 (1911) p. 139, disagrees on the ground that Indian miniatures were usually in Dutch documents of Rembrandt's time called "Suratsche (or Mogolsche) teekeningen." The oriental model seems to have stimulated more comments than the print itself; A. Hind, Catalogue of Rembrandt's Etchings (London, I923) p. 115. Werner Weisbach, Rembrandt (Berlin and Leipzig, 1926) p. 448, mentions the Indian miniature used as a model, and states that "it was in any case the unusual character of the exotic, so much beloved by Rembrandt, that stimulated him to make a copy." But for all the interest in the
PR< t? to r, Al 1 . ' -?-~ a4 EARLY MUSIC edited by J. M. Thomson ? VOL 3 NO 3JULY 1975 EMANUEL W... more PR< t? to r, Al 1 . ' -?-~ a4 EARLY MUSIC edited by J. M. Thomson ? VOL 3 NO 3JULY 1975 EMANUEL WINTERNITZ Secular musical practice in sacred art 221 WILLIAM PRIZER Performance practices in the frottola 227 ROBERT DONINGTON Arnold Dolmetsch 236 RUTH DYSON Bend the finger at all three joints: Wanda Landowska's teaching methods 240 JEREMY MONTAGU The 'Authentic' sound of early music 242 CHRISTOPHER MONK First steps towards playing the cornett 2 244 MICHAEL G. ZADRO Woods used for woodwind since the 16th century 2: a descriptive dictionary 249 DAVID FALLOWS Performing early music on record 1: the Italian Trecento 252 Where the wind blows / Christopher Monk 261 Rameau's Les Bore'ades / Robert Donington 263 International lute week 1975 / Michael Lowe 265 Book reviews 269 Music reviews 275 Correspondence and queries 289 Activities 301 Recordings-quarterly check list-13 313 American instrument research and performance / Bruce Bellingham 323 A note on the music supplement 327 Supplements: Register of early music, Register of early instruments-Keyboard 2
The secular spirit: Life and art at the end of the Middle Ages, 1975
Encyclopedia of world art, 1974
The unknown Leonardo, 1974
If thy music be not noble, then leave my keys alone -1ns1:npnon on a spinemna ma<le for Eleonora ... more If thy music be not noble, then leave my keys alone -1ns1:npnon on a spinemna ma<le for Eleonora <l'Estc, Duchess of Urbmo, m 1540.
Non tutti sanno che Leonardo da Vinci si interesso a fondo cli musica, non solo come apprezzato e... more Non tutti sanno che Leonardo da Vinci si interesso a fondo cli musica, non solo come apprezzato esecutore, ~mprovvisatore ed insegnQllte, ma anche quale rioercatore nel oampo dell'acuscioa e dell'estetioa musicale, nonche quale inventore cli vari strumenti musicali assru ingegnosi. 1 Alcune delle sue idee pill interessantii sulla natura del1a musica e sul posto da essa oooupato come arte, sono contenute nel « Baragone », un trattato animato dall'evidente intenzione di esaltare, come la piiu nobile di tutte le arti, la pittura, «Ia nipote della natura e imparentata con Dio », com'egli la definisce. TuttJavia, per chl sa Jeggere fra le righe, e interessante osservare come la musica, Ia sorella minore della pittura, e « malata cli moire impetlezioni », si dimostri, ad un piu approfonclito esame, un'atte nobile quanto la pittura e una disoipHna autonoma, « figuratione dell'invisihile ». II « Paragone » fa patte de! « Trattato della Bittura », un ~bro messo insierne, dopo fa morte di Leonatdo, dalrallievo Francesco Mebii, con i suoi scritti sulle arti, clisseminari qua e la fra le sue numerose carte, ivi comprese alcune che in seguito sono andate perdute. I1 manoscritto de1
Perspectives in musicology: Inaugural lectures of the Ph.D. Program in Music at the City University of New York, 1972
ICONOLOGY of music deals with the lessons that pictures can teach the music historian. A more sop... more ICONOLOGY of music deals with the lessons that pictures can teach the music historian. A more sophisticated definition would be: the analysis and interpretation, by the historian of music, of pictorial representations of musical instruments, their players, singers, groups of performing musicians, and all other kinds of musical scenes.
Phenomenology and social reality: Essays in memory of Alfred Schutz, 1971
Alfred Schutz was profoundly musical, and a study such as the present one on Leonardo's Paragone ... more Alfred Schutz was profoundly musical, and a study such as the present one on Leonardo's Paragone would, no doubt, have led to one of those long, nocturnal discussions which we used to have through forty years in Vienna and then in New York. We first met as students of law at the University of Vienna in 1918, but it was music which really brought us together. We ran into each other on the steps leading to the standing room section high up under the roof of the Vienna Opera House, both of us duly equipped with the score of the "Entfiihrung aus dem Serail."
Veröffentlicht vom Germanischen Nationalmuseum, Nürnberg, in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Musikhistorischen Museum zu Stockholm, 1970
Editors' Note: This third volume of the Journal, honoring the Museum's Centennial Year, is devote... more Editors' Note: This third volume of the Journal, honoring the Museum's Centennial Year, is devoted to articles written by scholars who were chosen by the curators of the various departments. It is consequently much larger than the previous volumes and gives an appropriately wide view of the Museum's first hundred years of collecting. The editors are grateful to the authors for their contributions and to the curators who for this issue acted in an editorial capacity themselves. IN THE I87os Mrs. John Crosby Brown fell in love with a little lutelike Italian instrument made of ivory, a pandurina. This started an infatuation that led in time to the formation of one of the richest and most systematic collections of musical instruments in the world, the Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments of All Nations. Now in the Metropolitan Museum, it comprises today about 4,000 objects, and has to be regarded as a monument of early American collecting. Mrs. Brown was an extraordinary person in many respects. She must have combined a clear vision and directness of decision with unusual sensitivity. Her oldest son, William Adams Brown, discusses her vividly and tenderly in his book A Teacher and His Times (New York, 1940):
Studies in eighteenth-century music: A tribute to Karl Geiringer on his seventieth birthday, 1970
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