The Amadeus Book of the Violin. Construction, History and Music

CONTENIDO:

PART ONE. THE INSTRUMENT
- Tone Production
- Violin Making. The Wood
- Bow Making
- Manual Work and Machines
- String Making
- Violin Maintenance. Repairs

PART TWO. THE HISTORY OF THE VIOLIN
- The Prehistory
- String Instruments in Thirteenth- and Fourteenth-Century Europe
- The Violin's Early History
- Musical Developments in the Fifteenth Century
- Viola de Gamba and Viola da Bracchio
- The Origin of the Violin
- The Violin in the Early Sixteenth Century
- The Rise of the Amati Family
- Gasparo da Salò and the Early Brescia School
- Violin Making in the Seventeenth Century
- National Schools in Europe before 1700
- Italian Violin Making in the Eighteenth Century
- The Decline of Italian Violin Making during the Second Half of the Eighteenth Century
- The 'Secret' of the Old Italian Luthiers
- The Old Italian Varnish
- Eighteenth-Century Violin outside Italy
- The Industrialization of Violin Making
- Violin Colectors and Dealers
- Violin Making and the Development of the natural Sciences
- Violin Making since 1800
- Violin Making as a Hobby
- The History and Making of Violin Bows
- Summary and Projections

PART THREE. PERFORMANCE, PEDAGOGY, AND COMPOSITION
- Violin Playing and Teaching in the Sixteenth Century
- Early Seventeenth-Century Developments
- Monteverdi and the Violin
- Biagio Marini
- Forms of Seventeenth-Century Violin Music
- Farina and Virtuoso Playing
- Standarization of Orchestra
- Chamber Music and Orchestral Music before Corelli
- Germany and Austria in the Seventeenth Century
- France and England in the Seventeenth Century
- Corelli and Violin Music at the End of the Seventeenth Century
- Seventeenth-Century Violin Instruction Books
- Torelli and the Beginnings of the Solo Concerto
- The Origin of the Solo Cadenza
- Italian Violin Playing after Vivaldi
- Johann Sebastian Bach Compositions for Violin
- The 'Bach' Bow
- Instruction Books from the First Half of the Eighteenth Century
- Mid-Century Style Changes
- The Classic Solo Concerto
- Mozart's Compositions for Violin
- The Origins of the String Quartet
- Orchestra Playing in the Eighteenth Century
- Instruction Books, 1750-1800
- The Etude's Origin
- The Development of Violin Playing in the Principal Countries of Europe during the Eighteenth Century
- The Founding of the Paris Conservatoire
- Beethoven's Compositions for Violin
- Traveling Virtuosos
- Nicolò Paganini
- Nineteenth-Century Violin Playing
- Nineteenth-Century Violin Music
- Nineteenth-Century Violin Pedagogy
- Instructional Works
- Otakar Sevcik, or The Perfect Method
- The Violinist's Physical and Mental Health
- Fritz Kreisler and Modern Violin Playing
- Fingering
- Violin Music since 1900
- Violin Pedagogy since 1900
- Great Twentieth Century Violinist: 'Virtuosi'
- Great Twentieth Century Violinist: 'Virtuose'
- String Quartets
- Into the Twenty-first Century

BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX OF NAMES