The history of the violin, and other instruments played on with the bow from the remotest times to the presentAlso, an account of the principal makers, English and foreign, with numerous illustrationsBy William Sandys and Simon Andrew Forster . VIOL DE GAMBAIn the possession of S. A. Forster FIG. 49. VIOL DE GAME AIn the possession of S. A. Forster FIG. 50 HISTORY OF THE VIOLIN. 113 century, was one of the first who printed the plain-chantin moveable characters with the signs of the ligatures,and about the same time Oglin, at Augsbourg, was thefirst who printed music from copper-plates ; Hauti
The history of the violin, and other instruments played on with the bow from the remotest times to the presentAlso, an account of the principal makers, English and foreign, with numerous illustrationsBy William Sandys and Simon Andrew Forster . VIOL DE GAMBAIn the possession of S. A. Forster FIG. 49. VIOL DE GAME AIn the possession of S. A. Forster FIG. 50 HISTORY OF THE VIOLIN. 113 century, was one of the first who printed the plain-chantin moveable characters with the signs of the ligatures,and about the same time Oglin, at Augsbourg, was thefirst who printed music from copper-plates ; Hautin, atParis, being the first who engraved music in Ballards had a monopoly there in 1540, whichsomewhat delayed the improvement, as they used theold characters. Adrian le Roy, an eminent lutenist,was afterwards associated with them, and the type wasimproved. He published, about 1570, the precepts forthe tablature of the lute, an inconvenient method ofnotation, that was occasionally applied even to thediflFerent classes of the viol and violin, and did not wearitself out until a comparatively recent period. Granjon,who formed his notes rounded instead of lozenge-shaped,Attaignant, Guillaume de Be, Branton, and Sanlecqueand his son, were other clever printers of music of thisage. For t
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