The Violin

  • The Violin: A Social History of the World's Most Versatile Instrument
    By David Schoenbaum

    Traces the history of the instrument, from its first appearance in the mid-16th century to its modern use by artists, writers and Hollywood and discusses how the affordable, portable instrument can be used to play Beethoven, jazz and indie ...

  • The Violin: A Social History of the World's Most Versatile Instrument
    By David Schoenbaum

    John von Rhein, “Orchestra, Lyric Opera in Tune,” Chicago Trihune, December 5, 2009; Daniel Wakin, “Cleveland Settles Orchestra Strike,” New York Times,January 19, 2010; Andrew Manshel, “Too Big to Succeed?” Wall Streetjournal, January ...

  • The Violin: A Research and Information Guide
    By Mark Katz

    Mus. exx., bib. Jean-Baptiste Senaillé (1688–1730) See {468}, {697}, {699}, {702}. Roger Sessions (1896–1985) 1123. See also {665}, {676}, {677}. Carter, Elliott. “Current Chronicle: New York, 1959.” In The Writings of Elliott Carter: ...

  • The Violin: A Research and Information Guide
    By Mark Katz

    Mina Miller, 495–533. Portland, OR: Amadeus, 1994. Examines the stylistic traits of the two violin sonatas (1895 and 1912), two works that exemplify different stages of Nielsen's career. Concludes that Nielsen “juxtaposes ...

  • The Violin
    By George Dubourg

    He spent, in all, half a yeare with him, and gained some improvement; yet at length he found him not a compleat master of his facultie, as Griffith and Parker were not: and, to say the truth, there was no compleat master in Oxon for ...

  • The Violin: A Research and Information Guide
    By Mark Katz

    This book is the only complete and up-to-date annotated bibliography available on women's activities and contributions in the creation and performance of music through the ages.

  • The Violin
    By Robert Riggs

    ... Knouse Ralph Kirkpatrick: Letters of the American Harpsichordist and Scholar Edited by Meredith Kirkpatrick Reviving Haydn: New Appreciations in the Twentieth Century Bryan Proksch The Substance of Things Heard: Writings about Music ...

  • The Violin
    By Rachel Shtibel, Adam Shtibel

    Rachel Milbauer, a vivacious and outgoing music lover, lay hidden and silent with her family and a family friend in an underground bunker in Nazi-occupied Poland for nearly two years....

  • The Violin
    By Lindsay Pritchard

    Holding it you might even muse on the transience of life against the durability of the instrument and the music it has played. This is the story of that violin.

  • The Violin: An Illustrated History
    By Yehudi Menuhin, Catherine Meyer

    "Sir Yehudi Menuhin packs a lifetime of recollection, experience, and emotion into the telling of this tale of the violin, from its earliest days as a primitive stringed instrument to...

  • The Violin
    By George Hart

    Reproduction of the original: The Violin by George Hart