INTRODUCTION TO THE SOUND QUALITY OF BAROQUE AND MODERN VIOLIN

The thesis deals with the constructional differences between the baroque and modern violin and interconnects these differences with objective knowledge in acoustics and their influence on sound quality. Contains: an organological summary of the development of the violin till the 17th century, description of the basic acoustic principles of creating sound on violin, an organological summary of constructional changes since the Baroque until present time and its partial connection with musical acoustics. The last part of the thesis is a description of the research itself. In this chapter the harmonic spectrums of the concrete tones of baroque and modern violin and their directions of radiation are compared. Deduced conclusions are connected with a subjective description of sound quality