The violin baroque of today is finally only the original instrument, since its creation at the 16th century by Amati, until the beginning of the 19th century. The evolution of the technique of play and the repertory, as well as rooms and orchestras larger required violins with the more powerful and more bearing sound. Since the middle of the 20th century the use and the will to listen to the violin baroque are a success growing in the musical world.

Three different types

• instruments maintained during centuries in their country of origin, which are very rare.
• instruments of time retransformés in their country of origin.
• counterparts manufactured according to the old plans of construction of the original instruments.

Differences with the modern violin

• the key was initially out of boxwood, at the 18th century out of maple.
• the key was shorter and thinner.
• the bar of harmony was shorter and less thick.
• the rest was less high, flatter and had a thicker foot.
• the heart was thinner and probably had a different site.
• the cords were in bowel, sometimes surrounded by wire (money or copper)
• the instrument in its original form is until 25% lighter.
• the vibrating cord was 1 cm less long.
• the " La" vary today from 390 Hz with 415 Hz (see details: Tuning fork).
• the use of the bow lighter baroque.
• the shorter handle was placed in a flatter angle.
• the lighter rope-maker.

Historical sources for the practice of the play

With Milan in 1645 It appeared scolaro per imparar has suonare di violino Gasparo Zanetti, with London, The Gentleman' S Diversion, gold the Violin explained John Lenton in 1698 and of Francesco Geminiani, in 1751, Arte del Violino . Giuseppe Tartini published in Paris in 1771 Traité approvals of the music .

In 1738 appears in Paris the School of Orphée of Michel Corrette in which it gives important instructions for the interpretation of time of the styles Italian and French. Art to improve on the violin is the continuation of its first work. Pierre Dupont publishes his Principes of violin by requests and reponce . Of Marine Mersenne Universal Harmony Paris, 1636 In Germany will appear in 1695 with Augsburg the handbook of Daniel Merck (1650-1713) Compendium musicae instrumentalis Celicae: kurtzer Begriff welcher Instrumental-Music Gestalten die auf der Violin, Pratschen, Raped da Gamba und Bass gründlich und leicht zu erlernen seye and sixty years later school of violin of Leopold Mozart celebrates it.

A work published in 1915, in London, of the French violonist and violin maker Arnold Dolmetsch, " The Interpretation off the Music off the XVIIth and XVIIIth Century" , is one of the first handbooks of the postromantic period of the revival of the Baroque music.

Modern literature

Publications of the Belgian musicologist.

• Das Vibrato in der Musik of Barock . (Graz 1988/2004) ISBN 3201013986
• Deutsche Violintechnik im 17. Jahrhundert (Graz 2006) ISBN 3201018651

External bonds

• The Art off playing the Violin of F. Geminiani
• Experiment of a musician with the violin baroque

Some soloists and professors

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