The Amadeus Book of the Violin

Walter Kolneder

doi:10.5771/9781493083374

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Available for the first time in English, this book has been considered the best single encyclopedia of the violin for 20 years. All aspects of the violin are covered: construction, history, and literature; violin playing and teaching; and violin virtuosos through the ages.

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Copyright year: 2023
ISBN-Print: 978-1-57467-038-7
ISBN-Online: 978-1-4930-8337-4
Publisher: Amadeus, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 597
Product type: Book Titles

1. THE AMADEUS BOOK OF THE VIOLIN No access
2. CONTENTS No access
3. Preface to the Revised English-language Edition No access
1. Tone Production No access
2. Violin Making. The wood No access
3. 1. The model No access
  2. Making the top and back No access
  3. The f holes and bass bar No access
  4. The rib structure No access
  5. Varnishing No access
  6. Adjusting the violin No access
4. Bow Making No access
5. Manual Work and Machines No access
6. String Making No access
7. 1. Worm damage No access
  2. Cracks in the top and back No access
  3. Damage to the edges of the top and back, and to the ribs No access
  4. Various changes in the wood No access
  5. Loss of wood in the top and back No access
  6. Replacing the bass bar No access
  7. Damage to the varnish No access
  8. Correction of measurements No access
  9. Fingerboard repairs No access
  10. Pegbox repairs No access
1. The Prehistory No access
2. String Instruments in Thirteenth- and Fourteentli-Century Europe No access
3. The Violin's Early History No access
4. Musical Developments in the Fifteenth Century No access
5. Viola da Gamba and Viola da Bracchio No access
6. The Origin of the Violin No access
7. The Violin in the Early Sixteenth Century No access
8. The Rise of the Amati Family. Cremona becomes the center of violin making No access
9. Gasparo da Salo and the Early Brescia School No access
10. Violin Making in the Seventeenth Century. The Cremona school from Nicolo III Amati to Antonio Stradivari No access
11. Violin Making in Seventeenth-Century Brescia No access
12. Italian Seventeenth-Century Violin Makers outside Brescia and Cremona No access
13. National Schools in Europe before 1700. Jacob Stainer No access
14. Italian Violin Making in the Eighteenth Century. Antonius Stradivarius and Josephus Guarnerius del Gesu No access
15. The Decline of Italian Violin Making during the Second Half of the Eighteenth Century No access
16. The "Secret" of the Old Italian Luthiers No access
17. The Old Italian Varnish No access
18. 1. Austria and Germany No access
  2. Holland and Belgium No access
  3. England No access
  4. The Iberian Peninsula No access
19. The Industrialization of Violin Making No access
20. Violin Collectors and Dealers No access
21. Violin Making and the Development of the Natural Sciences. New experiments No access
22. 1. Italy No access
  2. France No access
  3. England No access
  4. The Americas No access
  5. The Iberian Peninsula No access
  6. Belgium and Holland No access
  7. Scandinavia and Finland No access
  8. Germany No access
  9. Switzerland No access
  10. Austria No access
  11. Czechoslovakia and Hungary No access
  12. Poland No access
  13. Russia No access
  14. The Balkans No access
  15. Turkey No access
  16. Japan No access
  17. Australia No access
  18. NewZealand No access
  19. South Africa No access
23. Violin Making as a Hobby No access
24. The History and Making of Violin Bows No access
25. 1. England No access
  2. Germany No access
26. Summary and Projections No access
1. Violin Playing and Teaching in the Sixteenth Century No access
2. Early Seventeenth-Century Developments No access
3. Monteverdi and the Violin No access
4. Biagio Marini No access
5. Forms of Seventeenth-Century Violin Music No access
6. Farina and Virtuoso Playing No access
7. Standardization of the Orchestra. Categories and formal design in orchestral music No access
8. Chamber Music and Orchestral Music before Corelli No access
9. Germany and Austria in the Seventeenth Century No access
10. France and England in the Seventeenth Century No access
11. Corelli and Violin Music at the End of the Seventeenth Century No access
12. Seventeenth-Century Violin Instruction Books No access
13. Torelli and the Beginnings of the Solo Concerto No access
14. Antonio Vivaldi and the Solo Concerto No access
15. The Origin of the Solo Cadenza No access
16. Italian Violin Playing after Vivaldi. Geminiani, Somis, Veracini, Locatelli No access
17. Johann Sebastian Bach's Compositions for Violin No access
18. The "Bach" Bow No access
19. Instruction Books from the First Half of the Eighteenth Century No access
20. Mid-Century Style Changes. Johann Stamitz No access
21. Giuseppe Tartini No access
22. The Classic Solo Concerto No access
23. Mozart's Compositions for Violin No access
24. The Origins of the String Quartet. Quartets by Haydn and Mozart No access
25. Orchestra Playing in the Eighteenth Century. The classical symphony No access
26. Instruction Books, 1750-1800 No access
27. The Etude's Origin No access
28. 1. France No access
  2. Germany and Austria No access
29. England and other European countries No access
30. The Founding of the Paris Conservatoire. The beginnings of modern music education No access
31. Beethoven's Compositions for Violin No access
32. Traveling Virtuosos No access
33. Nicolo Paganini No access
34. 1. France and Belgium No access
  2. Vienna No access
  3. Italy No access
  4. Germany No access
  5. Bohemia No access
  6. Hungary No access
  7. Poland No access
  8. Russia No access
  9. United States No access
  10. England No access
  11. Scandinavia No access
  12. Spain No access
35. 1. Works for violin and orchestra No access
  2. Works for violin and piano (or harp) No access
  3. Works for unaccompanied violin No access
36. Duets No access
37. Nineteenth-Century Violin Pedagogy. Teaching as a science No access
38. Instructional Works No access
39. Otakar Sevcik, or The Perfect Method No access
40. The Violinist's Physical and Mental Health. Twentieth-century problems No access
41. Fritz Kreisler and Modem Violin Playing. Vibrato No access
42. Fingering No access
43. 1. Works for unaccompanied violin No access
  2. Duets No access
  3. Works for violin and piano No access
  4. Works for violin and orchestra No access
44. Violin Pedagogy since 1900 No access
45. Great Twentieth-Century Violinists: Virtuosi No access
46. Great Twentieth-Century Violinists: Virtuose No access
47. String Quartets No access
48. Into the Twenty-first Century No access
Bibliography No access Pages 547 - 564
Index of Names No access Pages 565 - 597