Informationen zu "B. C. before Cremona (en) bound"
Komponist/Autor: John Huber
Verlag: Verlag Erwin Bochinsky
Verlagsnummer: 9783941532137
EAN: 9783941532137
ISBN: 978-3-941532-13-7
Beschreibung
A Path through History to the Violin
Based upon the physical resources of our bodies and our environment, music
has been part of our history during the entire development of our
civilization. From our earliest efforts to celebrate life, we have invented
tools to facilitate the use of sound to make music. In sixteenth century
Italian Cremona, Andrea Amati developed the instrument models and
construction standards which further refined by his family and colleagues,
remain the standards of violin making. But do we know how the violin
developed, or what happened before Cremona?
Remnants from our most ancient centers of civilization often reveal interest
in stringed musical instruments, but the use of the bow to sound them is
first known among archers of the Asian steppe nomads. Spreading first to
adjacent Asian cultures through trade, conquest, and religion, the idea also
travelled on as East and West discovered and explored each other. The Silk
Road, for example, brought a great exchange of both culture and commerce.
Neither the ancient Greeks nor the Romans knew bowed instruments, but a
thousand years before Amati worked in Cremona, Islamic conquests spread
knowledge of bowing and developments in instrument construction across the
known world. In 'B.C. Before Cremona', John Huber presents that history, and
illustrates instrument development with photographic examples of ancient
stringed instruments.
