Add to ORKGOnly two descriptions of fiddle tuning survive from before the fifteenth century: one by Jerome of Moravia, Paris, ca. 1280; and the other by Jean Vaillant (?), Paris, fourteenth century. Both treatises have been edited by Christopher Page. The tunings in the Jean Vaillant (?) treatise are probably designed for plucked stringed instruments (Remnant 67), especially since the tunings would be inappropriate for a flat-bridged instrument and inconvenient for a curved-bridged instrument
From the 1670s to the 1760s two different styles of bowhold were described by writers on violin tech...
A Baroque violin was initially made. It was then incrementally converted to a Romantic (modern) setu...
Violin playing in eighteenth-century England was dominated by foreign violinists, of whom Francesco ...
It was the keyboard instruments, especially the stringed keyboard instruments, that had the greatest...
Since the 1970s, historically-aware performances of late eighteenth-century repertoire (and that of ...
12-tone equal temperament has dominated tuning theory and practice in western music since the mid-ni...
Drawing on explicit descriptions, iconographic representations, and contemporary narrative, this ess...
Starting with the observation of a broad range of XIV and XV century iconographic representations, f...
DVDs accompanying hard copy include recitals recorded 28 June 2012 and 25 June 2013; lecture recital...
Scordatura, a system of tuning a stringed instrument, is not often considered in the study of Irish ...
The viola d’amore is a small bowed instrument that was in use predominantly from the second half of ...
This article examines the Tractatus de musica of Jerome of Moray ('de Moravia ), affirming his Scott...
This book provides the first scholarly history of the viola d’amore, a popular bowed string instrume...
The violin, which has played a central role in the development oi instrumental music since the baroq...
Du Véritable Caractère de la Musique Moderne (E315), a work almost unknown to musical scholars, is a...
From the 1670s to the 1760s two different styles of bowhold were described by writers on violin tech...
A Baroque violin was initially made. It was then incrementally converted to a Romantic (modern) setu...
Violin playing in eighteenth-century England was dominated by foreign violinists, of whom Francesco ...
It was the keyboard instruments, especially the stringed keyboard instruments, that had the greatest...
Since the 1970s, historically-aware performances of late eighteenth-century repertoire (and that of ...
12-tone equal temperament has dominated tuning theory and practice in western music since the mid-ni...
Drawing on explicit descriptions, iconographic representations, and contemporary narrative, this ess...
Starting with the observation of a broad range of XIV and XV century iconographic representations, f...
DVDs accompanying hard copy include recitals recorded 28 June 2012 and 25 June 2013; lecture recital...
Scordatura, a system of tuning a stringed instrument, is not often considered in the study of Irish ...
The viola d’amore is a small bowed instrument that was in use predominantly from the second half of ...
This article examines the Tractatus de musica of Jerome of Moray ('de Moravia ), affirming his Scott...
This book provides the first scholarly history of the viola d’amore, a popular bowed string instrume...
The violin, which has played a central role in the development oi instrumental music since the baroq...
Du Véritable Caractère de la Musique Moderne (E315), a work almost unknown to musical scholars, is a...
From the 1670s to the 1760s two different styles of bowhold were described by writers on violin tech...
A Baroque violin was initially made. It was then incrementally converted to a Romantic (modern) setu...
Violin playing in eighteenth-century England was dominated by foreign violinists, of whom Francesco ...