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FOOTNOTES:
[1] “History of the Violin,” by Sandys and Forster.
[2] Monteclair first introduced the double-bass into the Paris Opera
orchestra in 1730.
[3] “Memories of Music.”
[4] _Vide_ “Flowers from a Persian Garden,” by W. A. Coulston. London,
1890.
[5] Samuel Butler in “Hudibras” says--that brave Crowdero’s
“Grizzely beard grew long and thick
From whence he strung his fiddlestick.”
[6] _Vide_ A. Christianowich: “Exquise Historique de la Musique Arabe.”
Cologne, 1883.
[7] “The Troubadours and Courts of Love,” J. F. Rowbottham. London,
1895.
[8] “The Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians,” Edward W. Lane.
[9] Persian Treatise on “The Reasons of Modulations in Chants,” by
Abd-ul-cadir, 1418. This MS. is in the University of Leyden.
[10] An interesting and authentic rebec, is to be seen in the Donaldson
Museum, at the Royal College of Music.
[11] “Lettres de Remission,” quoted by Laurent Grillét, “Ancêtres du
Violon.”
[12] This play was first performed at Chambord, 14th October 1670.
[13] There is a fine Kerlino viola included in the Donaldson
Collection, dated 1452. This was shown at the South Kensington Special
Loan Exhibition in 1872. A similar example of the maker’s work, though
not in such a high state of preservation, is in the Musée of the
Conservatoire de Musique in Brussels.
[14] A facsimile representation of this viol and the title-page is
included in Mr Heron Allen’s “De Fidiculis Bibliographia,” and “The
Violin,” No. 5, a monthly, edited by Mr J. M. Fleming.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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