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 . FIG. FIG. 3. Abbot Amalarius, in the early part of the ninth centuryas cited by Gerbert, referring to the expression requiredin singers, says—implying the absence of any instru-ments,— Nostri cantores non tenent cymbala, nequelyram, neque citharam manibus, neque csetera generamusicorum, sed corde. Quanto cor mains est corpore,tanto Deo devotius exhi
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 . FIG. FIG. 3. Abbot Amalarius, in the early part of the ninth centuryas cited by Gerbert, referring to the expression requiredin singers, says—implying the absence of any instru-ments,— Nostri cantores non tenent cymbala, nequelyram, neque citharam manibus, neque csetera generamusicorum, sed corde. Quanto cor mains est corpore,tanto Deo devotius exhibetur, quod per cor fit, quamper corpus, ipsi cantores sunt tuba, ipsi psalterium, ipsi 24 ^ HISTORY OF THE VIOLIN. cithara, ipsi tympanum, ipsi chorus, ipsi chordae, ipsiorganum, ipsi cymbala. John of Salisbury, in thetwelfth century, writing on the use of music in churches,says: Sumite psalmum, date tympanum, psalteriumiocundum cum cithara. In an old French Bible of thesame date, the third verse of the 149th Psalm is rendered, Loent-il son noun en crouth, si chantent-il a lui entympan et psaltruy. Thomas Aquinas, in the thirteenthcentury, says, Instrumenta musica, sicut citharas etpsalteria, non assumit ecclesia in divinas laudes, nevideat
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