Complete Violin Bibliography
F. Regli: Storia del violino in Piemonte (Turin, 1863)
W. Sandys and S.A. Forster: The History of the Violin (London,1864)
J.W. von Wasielewski: Die Violine und ihre Meister (Leipzig, 1869, rev. 8/1927/R by W. von Wasielewski)
A.K. Tottmann: Führer durch den Violinunterricht (Leipzig, 1873, rev. 4/1935 as Führer durch die Violinliterature)
G. Hart: The Violin and its Music (London, 1881/R)
E. Heron-Allen: De fidiculis bibliographia: being an Attempt towards a Bibliography of the Violin and all Other Instruments played with a Bow in Ancient and Modern Times (London, 1890–94/R)
A. Pougin: Le violon, les violonistes et la musique du violon du XVIe au XVIIIe siècle (Paris, 1924)
A. Bachmann: An Encyclopedia of the Violin, ed. A.E. Wier (New York and London, 1925/R)
A. Bonaventura: Storia del violino, dei violinisti e della musica per violino (Milan, 1925, 2/1933)
F. von Reuter: Führer durch die Solo-Violinmusik (Berlin, 1926)
M. Pincherle: Feuillets d'histoire du violon (Paris, 1927)
G.R. Hayes: Musical Instruments and their Music, 1500–1750, ii: The Viols, and Other Bowed Instrumetns (London, 1930/R)
E. van der Straeten: The History of the Violin (London, 1933/R)
F. Farga: Geigen und Geiger (Zürich, 1940, rev. 7/1983 by K.F. Mages, W. Wendel and U. Dühlberg; Eng. trans., 1950, rev. 2/1969)
S. Babitz: The Violin: Views and Reviews (Urbana, IL, 1955, 3/1980)
E. Leipp: Le violon: histoire, esthétique, facture et acoustique (Paris, 1965; Eng. trans., 1969)
B.G. Seagrave and J. Berman: The A.S.T.A. Dictionary of Bowing Terms for String Instruments (Urbana, IL, 1968)
Violinspiel und Violinmusik: Graz 1972
W. Kolneder: Das Buch der Violine: Bau, Geschichte, Spiel, Pädagogik, Komposition (Zürich, 1972, 3/1984; Eng. trans., 1998)
A. Loft: Violin and Keyboard, the Duo Repertoire (New York, 1973/R)
E. Melkus: Die Violine: eine Einführung in die Geschichte der Violine und des Violinspiels (Berne, 1973/R, enlarged 2/1997)
P. Marcan: Music for Solo Violin Unaccompanied: a Performer's Guide to the Published Literature of the Seventeenth, Eighteenth, Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (High Wycombe, 1983)
B.R. Toskey: Concertos for Violin and Viola: a Comprehensive Encylopedia (Seattle, 1983)
D. Gill, ed.: The Book of the Violin (Oxford and New York, 1984)
K. Osse: Violine: Klangwerkzeug und Kunstgegenstand: ein Leitfaden für Spieler und Liebhaber von Streichinstrumenten (Wiesbaden, 1985)
H. Edlund: Music for Solo Violin Unaccompanied: a Catalogue of Published and Unpublished Works from the Seventeenth Century to 1989 (High Wycombe, 1989)
R. Stowell, ed.: The Cambridge Companion to the Violin (Cambridge, 1992)
R. Dawes, ed.: The Violin Book (London, 1999)
A. Bagatella: Regole per la costruzione de' violini, viole, violoncelli e violoni (Padua, 1786/R; Eng. trans., 1995)
G.A. Marchi: Il manoscritto liutario di G.A. Marchi (Bologna, 1786); ed. and Eng. trans. as The Manuscript on Violin Making/Il manoscritto liutario, ed. R. Regazzi (Bologna, 1986)
F.-J. Fétis: Antoine Stradivari, luthier célèbre (Paris, 1856; Eng. trans., 1864/R)
E. Heron-Allen: Violin-Making, as it was and is (London, 1884, 2/1885/R)
W.H., A.F. and A.E. Hill: Antonio Stradivari: his Life and Work (1644–1737) (London, 1902, 2/1909)
G. Fry: The Varnishes of the Italian Violin-Makers (London, 1904)
W.M. Morris: British Violin-Makers, Classical and Modern (London, 1904, 2/1920 as British Violin-Makers)
O. Möckel: Die Kunst des Geigenbaues (Leipzig, 1930, 6/1984)
F. Hamma: Meisterwerke italienischer Geigenbaukunst (Stuttgart, 1931, rev. 2/1964 by W. Hamma as Meister italienischer Geigenbaukunst, with Eng. trans., rev. 4/1976)
W.H., A.F. and A.E. Hill: The Violin Makers of the Guarneri Family (London, 1931)
C. Bonetti: La genealogia degli Amati liutai e il primato della scuola liutistica cremonese (Cremona, 1938; Eng. trans., 1989, as A Genealogy of the Amati Family of Violin Makers, 1500–1740)
J.H. Fairfield: Known Violin Makers (New York, 1942, 5/1988)
E.N. Doring: How Many Strads? Our Heritage from the Master (Chicago, 1945, 2/1998)
J. Michelman: Violin Varnish: a Plausible Re-Creation of the Varnish Used by the Italian Violin Makers between the Years 1550 and 1750 (Cincinnati, 1946)
J.W. Reiss: Polskie skrzypce i polscy skrzypkowie [Polish violins and violinists] (Warsaw, 1946)
F. Hamma: Meister deutscher Geigenbaukunst (Stuttgart, 1948, 2/1961; Eng. trans., 1961 as German Violin Makers)
E.N. Doring: The Guadagnini Family of Violin Makers (Chicago, 1949)
W. Senn: Jakob Stainer, der Geigenmacher zu Absam: die Lebengeschichte nach urkundlichen Quellen (Innsbruck, 1951)
K. Jalovec: Italští houslaÅ™i/Italian Violin Makers (Prague, 1952; edn in Eng. only, 1957, 2/1964)
R. and M. Millant: Manuel pratique de lutherie (Paris, 1952/R)
Z. Szulc: SÅ‚ownik lutników polskich [Dictionary of Polish violin-makers] (PoznaÅ„, 1953
)
W. Henley and C. Woodcock: Universal Dictionary of Violin and Bow Makers (Brighton, 1959–69)
K. Jalovec: ÄŒeští houslaÅ™i [Czech violinists] (Prague, 1959; Eng. trans., 1959)
C.M. Hutchins: ‘The Physics of Violins’, Scientific American, ccvii/5 (1962), 78–84, 87–93
J. Backus: The Acoustical Foundations of Music (New York, 1969, 2/1977)
S. Milliot: Documents inédits sur les luthiers parisiens du XVIIIe siècle (Paris, 1970)
H.K. Goodkind: Violin Iconography of Antonio Stradivari, 1644–1737 (Larchmont, NY, 1972)
D. Abbott and E. Segerman: ‘Strings in the 16th and 17th Centuries’, GSJ, xxvii (1974), 48–73
S. Bonta: ‘From Violone to Violoncello: a Question of Strings’, JAMIS, iii (1977), 64–99
A. Gauge: ‘“La lutherie” at Mirecourt’, Journal of the Violin Society of America, iii/3 (1977), 68–79
M. Brinser: Dictionary of Twentieth Century Violin Making (Irvington, NJ, 1978)
C. Taylor: ‘The New Violin Family and its Scientific Background’, Soundings, vii (1978), 101–16
F. Prochart: Der Wiener Geigenbau im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert (Tutzing, 1979)
F. Mele: ‘19th- and 20th-Century Violin Makers’, The Strad, xc (1979–80), 912–15
R.B. Nevin: ‘Violin Varnish’, The Strad, xc (1979–80), 446–8
P.L. Shirtcliff: ‘The Violin-Making Schools of Europe’, The Strad, xc (1979–80), 442–5
H. Heyde and P. Liersch: ‘Studien zum sächischen Musikinstrumentenbau des 16./17. Jahrhunderts’, Jb Peters, ii (1980), 230–59
C. Vettori: Linee classiche della liuteria italiana/The Classic Lines of Italian Violin Making (Pisa, 1980)
G. Tumminello: Arte, artigianato, società: dall' albero al violino, lavoro e creatività (Cremona, 1981)
W. Prizer: ‘Isabella d'Este and Lorenzo da Pavia, “Master Instrument Maker”’, EMH, ii (1982), 87–127
J.S. and W.R. Robinson: The Guarneri Mold and Modern Violin Making (Oklahoma City, OK, 1982)
I. Vigdorchik: The Acoustical Systems of Violins of Stradivarius and other Cremona Makers (Westbury, NY, 1982)
L.C. Witten: ‘The Surviving Instruments of Andrea Amati’, EMc, x (1982), 487–94
A. Cohen: ‘A Cache of 18th Century Strings’, GSJ, xxxvi (1983), 37–48
A. Lolov: ‘Bent Plates in Violin Construction’, GSJ, xxxvii (1984), 10–15
D. Rubio: ‘The Anatomy of the Violin’, The Book of the Violin, ed. D. Gill (Oxford and New York, 1984), 17–47
E.J. Ward: The Strad Facsimile: an Illustrated Guide to Violin Making (Kaneoho, HI, 1984)
K. Coates: Geometry, Proportion, and the Art of Lutherie (Oxford, 1985)
R. Doerr: Violin Maker's Handbook (Battle Creek, MI, 1985)
K.D. Marshall: ‘Modal Analysis of a Violin’, JASA, lxxvii (1985), 695–709
P.L. Polato: ‘Liutai veneziani nei secoli XVI, XVII e XVIII: ricerca documentaria nell'Archivio di Stato di Venezia’, Flauto dolce, no.12 (1985), 6–15
W.S. Gorrill and N. Pickering: ‘Strings: Facts and Fallacies’, Journal of the Violin Society of America, viii/1 (1986), 27–40
W. Hamma: Geigenbauer der deutschen Schule des 17. bis 19. Jahrhunderts/Violin-Makers of the German School from the 17th to the 19th Century (Tutzing, 1986)
R. Hargrave: ‘Safety Pins’, ‘Tried and Tested’, ‘Keeping Fit’, The Strad, xcvii (1986–7), 116–18, 194–9, 257–8
A. Dipper and D. Woodrow, ed. and trans.: Ignazio Alessandro Cozio di Salabue: Observations on the Construction of Stringed Instruments and their Adjustment, 1804, 1805, 1809, 1810, 1816 (Taynton, 1987)
K. Moens: ‘Der frühe Geigenbau in Süddeutschland’, Studia organologica: Festschrift für John Henry van der Meer, ed. F. Hellwig (Tutzing, 1987), 349–88
S. Bonta: ‘Catline Strings Revisited’, JAMIS, xiv (1988), 38–60
D. Draley: ‘The Transition of the Amati Workshop into the Hands of Stradivari, 1660–1684’, Journal of the Violin Society of America, ix/3 (1988), 71–97
H.M. Brown: ‘The Trecento Fiddle and its Bridges’, EMc, xvii (1989), 311–29
Liuteria e musica strumentale a Brescia tra Cinque e Seicento: Salò 1990
O. Adelmann: Die alemannische Schule: archaischer Geigenbau des 17. Jahrhunderts im südlichen Schwarzwald und in der Schweiz (Berlin, 1990)
F. Dassenno and U. Ravasio: Gasparo da Salò e la liuteria bresciana tra Rinascimento e Barocco (Brescia and Cremona, 1990)
T. Drescher: Die Geigen- und Lautmacher vom Mittelalter bis zur Gegenwart (Tutzing, 1990)
P. Kass: ‘The stati d'anime of S. Faustino in Cremona: Tracing the Amati Family, 1641 to 1686’, Journal of the Violin Society of America, xii/1 (1992), 3–85
D. Rosengard: ‘Cremona after Stradivari: the Bergonzi and Storioni Families’, Journal of the Violin Society of America, xii/1 (1992), 91–162
C. Beare and B. Carlson: Antonio Stradivari: the Cremona Exhibition of 1987 (London, 1993)
P. Biddulph: The Violin Masterpieces of Guarneri del Gesù (London, 1994)
D.G. Plowright: Dictionary of British Violin and Bow Makers (Exmouth, 1994)
B.W. Harvey: The Violin Family and its Makers in the British Isles (Oxford, 1995)
J. Jaskulski, J. Podbielski and R.J. Wieczorek: Polakowi tylko boga a skrypic: dzieje lutnictwa na ziemiach polskich di II wojny światowej [To a Pole, the almighty and a violin: history of the violin-making art in Poland until the Second World War] (Poznań, 1996)
J. Beament: The Violin Explained: Components, Mechanism, and Sound (Oxford, 1997)
K. Moens: ‘Vuillaume et les premiers luthiers/Vuillaume and the First Violin Makers’, Violons, Vuillaume, 1798–1875: un maître luthier français du XIXe siècle/Violins,
Vuillaume, 1798–1875: a Great French Violin Maker of the 19th Century, Musée de la Musique, 23 Oct 1998 – 31 Jan 1999 (Paris, 1998), 130–38, 160–62 [exhibition catalogue]
M. Agricola: Musica instrumentalis deudsch (Wittenberg, 1529/R, enlarged 5/1545; Eng. trans., ed. W. Hettrick, 1994)
H. Gerle: Musica teusch (Nuremberg, 1532/R, rev. 3/1546/R as Musica und Tabulatur)
G.M. Lanfranco: Scintille di musica (Brescia, 1533/R); Eng. trans. in B. Lee: Giovanni Maria Lanfranco’s ‘Scintille di musica’ and its Relation to 16th-Century Music Theory (diss., Cornell U., 1961)
S. di Ganassi dal Fontego: Regola rubertina (Venice, 1542/R); ed. W. Eggers (Kassel, 1974); Eng. trans. in JVdGSA, xviii (1981), 13–66
S. di Ganassi dal Fontego: Lettione seconda (Venice, 1543/R); ed. W. Eggers (Kassel, 1974)
P. Jambe de Fer: Epitome musical (Lyons, 1556); repr. in F. Lesure: ‘L'epitome musical de Philibert Jambe de Fer’, AnnM, vi (1958–63), 341–86
R. Rognoni: Passaggi per potersi essarcitare (Venice, 1592)
L. Zacconi: Prattica di musica (Venice, 1592/R)
F. Rognoni: Selva de varii passaggi (Milan, 1620/R)
G. Zanetti: Il scolaro (Milan, 1645)
J.J. Prinner: Musicalischer Schlissl (MS, 1677, US-Wc)
J. Lenton: The Gentleman's Diversion, or the Violin Explained (London, 1693, 2/1702 as The Useful Instructor on the Violin)
Nolens volens, or You Shall Learn to Play on the Violin Whether You Will or Not (London, 1695)
The Self-Instructer on the Violin (London, 1695, 2/1700 as The First, Second and Third Books of the Self-Instructor on the Violin)
D. Merck: Compendium musicae instrumentalis chelicae, das ist: kurtza Begriff, welcher Gestalten die Instrumental-Music auf der Violin, Pratschen, Viola da Gamba, und Bass gründlich und leicht zu erlernen seye (Augsburg, 1695)
G. Muffat: Florilegium secundum (Passau, 1698; ed. in DTÖ, iv, Jg.2/ii, 1895/R)
M. Corrette: L'école d'Orphée, méthode pour apprendre facilement à jouer du violon dans le goût françois et italien avec des principes de musique et beaucoup de leçons (Paris, 1738/R, enlarged 2/1779)
J.-J.C. de Mondonville: Introduction to Les sons harmoniques, op.4 (Paris and Lille, 1738)
H. Le Blanc: Défense de la basse de viole contre les entreprises du violon et les prétentions du violoncel (Amsterdam, 1740/R)
J.D. Berlin: Musikalske elementer (Trondheim, 1744); ed. B. Korsten (Bergen, 1977)
R. Crome: The Fiddle New Model'd, or a Useful Introduction for the Violin (London, c1750)
F. Geminiani: The Art of Playing on the Violin (London, 1751/R1952 with introduction by D.D. Boyden)
L. Mozart: Versuch einer gründlichen Violinschule (Augsburg, 1756/R, 3/1787/R; Eng. trans., 1948, as A Treatise on the Fundamental Principles of Violin Playing, 2/1951/R)
G. Tartini: L'arte del arco (Paris, 1758); repr. in J.B. Cartier: L'art du violon (Paris, 1798, enlarged 3/c1803/R)
The Compleat Tutor for the Violin: Containing the Best and Easiest Instructions for Learners to Obtain a Proficiency on that Instrument (London, after 1761)
L'abbé le fils [J.-B. Saint-Sévin] Principes du violon (Paris, 1761/R, 2/1772)
C.R. Brijon: Reflexions sur la musique et la vraie manière de l'exécuter sur le violon (Paris, 1763/R)
G. Tartini: Lettera [dated 1760] del defonto Signor Giuseppe Tartini alla Signora Maddalena Lombardini inserviente ad una importante lezione per i suonatori di violone,
L'Europa letteraria, v/2 (Venice, 1770; Eng. trans., 1771, 2/1779/R) [It., Eng., Fr. and Ger. edns repr. in E.R. Jacobi, ed. G. Tartini: Traité des agréments de la musique (Celle, 1961)]
G. Löhlein: Anweisung zum Violinspielen (Leipzig and Züllichau, 1774, enlarged 3/1797 by J.F. Reichardt)
T.-J. Tarade: Traité du violon (Paris, c1774/R)
M. Corrette: L'art de se perfectionner dans le violon … suite de L'école d'Orphée (Paris, 1782/R)
A. Lolli: L'école du violon en quatuor (Berlin and Amsterdam, c1784)
I. Schweigl: Verbesserte Grundlehre der Violin (Vienna, 1786, 2/1795 as Grundlehre der Violin)
F. Galeazzi: Elementi teorico-pratici di musica con un saggio sopra l'arte di suonare il violino analizzata, ed a dimostrabili principi ridotta, i (Rome, 1791, enlarged 2/1817),
Eng. trans., ed. A. Franscarelli (DMA diss., U. of Rochester, 1968); ii (Rome, 1796), Eng. trans. of pt 4, section 2, ed. G.W. Harwood (M.A. thesis, Brigham Young U., 1980)
J.A. Hiller: Anweisung zum Violinspielen für Schulen und zum Selbstunterrichte (Leipzig, 1792)
M. Woldemar: Méthode pour le violon (Paris, 1795–8)
A. Bailleux: Méthode raisonée pour apprendre à jouer du violon (Paris, 1798/R)
J.-B. Cartier: L'art du violon (Paris, 1798, enlarged 3/c1803/R) [incl. G. Tartini: L'arte del arco]
M. Woldemar: Grande méthode ou étude élémentaire pour le violon (Paris, 1798–9, 2/1802–3)
G.G. Cambini: Nouvelle méthode théorique et pratique pour le violon (Paris, c1800/R)
P. Baillot, P. Rode and R. Kreutzer: Méthode de violon (Paris, 1803/R)
B. Campagnoli: Nouvelle méthode de la mécanique progressive du jeu de violon … op.21 (Leipzig, 1824; It. trans., n.d.; Eng. trans., 1856)
K. Guhr: Über Paganinis Kunst die Violine zu spielen (Mainz, 1831; Eng. trans., rev., 1915; new Eng. trans., 1982, ed. J. Gold)
L. Spohr: Violinschule (Vienna, 1832; Eng. trans., 1843)
P. Baillot: L'art du violon: nouvelle méthode (Paris, 1834)
G. Dubourg: The Violin (London, 1836, rev. 5/1887 by J. Bishop)
J.-D. Alard: Ecole du violon: méthode complète et progressive (Paris, 1844)
H. Wieniawski: L'école moderne op.10 (Bonn, 1854)
C.-A. de Bériot: Méthode de violon op.102 (Paris, 1858)
F. David: Violinschule (Leipzig, 1863)
F. David: Die hohe Schule des Violinspiels (Leipzig, 1867–72, 2/1903)
O. ŠevÄík: Schule der Violin-Technik op.1 (Prague, 1881)
O. ŠevÄík: Schule der Bogentechnik op.2 (Leipzig, 1895)
J. Joachim and A. Moser: Violinschule (Berlin, 1902–5; Eng. trans., c1907; trilingual edn, 1959, rev. M. Jacobsen)
O. ŠevÄík: Violinschule für Anfänger op.6 (Leipzig, 1904–8)
C. Flesch: Urstudien für Violine (Berlin, 1911)
L. Capet: La technique supérieure de l'archet (Paris, 1916)
D. Fryklund: Studien über die Pochette (Sundsvall, 1917)
L. Auer: Violin Playing as I Teach it (New York, 1921/R)
D.C. Dounis: Die Künstlertechnik des Violinspiels/The Artist's Technique of Violin Playing op.12 (Vienna, 1921)
A. Jarosy: Die Grundlagen des violinistichen Fingersatzes (Berlin, 1921; Fr. orig., Paris, 1924, as Nouvelle théorie du doigté; Eng. trans., 1933, as A New Theory of Fingering)
C. Flesch: Die Kunst des Violin-Spiels, i (Berlin, 1923, 2/1929; Eng. trans., 1924, 2/1939; new Eng. trans., 2000); ii (Berlin, 1928; Eng. trans., 1930)
L. Auer: Violin Master-Works and their Interpretation (New York, 1925/R)
L. Auer: Graded Course of Violin Playing (New York, 1926)
E. and E. Doflein: Geigenschulwerk (Mainz, 1931, 2/1951; Eng. trans., 1957)
I.M. Yampol'sky: Osnovï skripichnoy applikaturï [The principles of violin fingering] (Moscow, 1933, enlarged 3/1955; Eng. trans., 1967)
S. Babitz: Principles of Extensions in Violin Fingering (Philadelphia, 1947; enlarged 2/1974 as Violin Fingering)
C. Flesch: Alta scuola di diteggiatura violinistica (Milan, 1960; Eng. trans., rev., 1966/R, as Violin Fingering: its Theory and Practice; Ger. orig., ed. K. Rebling, Frankfurt,
1995, as Die hohe Schule des Fingersatzes auf der Geige)
W. Primrose: Technique is Memory: a Method for Violin and Viola Players Based on Finger Patterns (Oxford, 1960)
I. Galamian: Principles of Violin Playing and Teaching (Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1962, 2/1985)
I. Galamian and F. Neumann: Contemporary Violin Technique (New York, 1966)
Y. Menuhin: Violin: six lessons with Yehudi Menuhin (London, 1971/R)
R. Gerle: The Art of Practising the Violin: with Useful Hints for All String Players (London, 1983)
d: commentaries on technique
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A. Pougin: Viotti et l'école moderne de violon (Paris, 1888)
M. Pincherle: ‘La technique du violon chez les premiers sonatistes français (1695–1723)’, BSIM, vii (1911), no.8, pp.1–32; no.9, pp.19–35; no.10, pp.10–23
G. Beckmann: Das Violinspiel in Deutschland vor 1700 (Leipzig, 1918, music suppl. 1921)
A. Moser: ‘Die Violin-Skordatur’, AMw, i (1918–19), 573–89
E. Lesser: ‘Zur Scordatura der Streichinstrumente’, AcM, iv (1932), 123–7, 148–60
T. Russell: ‘The Violin “Scordatura”’, MQ, xxiv (1938), 84–96
P.G. Gelrud: A Critical Study of the French Violin School (1782–1882) (diss., Cornell U., 1941)
I.M. Yampol'sky: Russkoye skripichnoye iskusstvo: ocherki i materialï [Russian violin playing: essays and materials] (Moscow, 1951)
A. Wirsta: Ecoles de violon au XVIIIème siècle d'après les ouvrages didactiques (diss., U. of Paris, 1955)
S. Babitz: ‘Differences between 18th-Century and Modern Violin Bowing’, The Score, no.19 (1957), 34–55; rev., pubd separately (Los Angeles, 1970, enlarged, 2/1975)
B. Seagrave: The French Style of Violin Bowing and Phrasing from Lully to Jacques Aubert (1650–1730) (diss., Stanford U., 1958)
G.J. Kinney: ‘Viols and Violins in the Epitome Musical (Lyon, 1556) of Philibert Jambe de Fer’, JVdGSA, iv (1967), 14–20
E. Winternitz: Gaudenzio Ferrari: his School and the Early History of the Violin (Milan, 1967)
F. Neumann: Violin Left Hand Technique: a Survey of Related Literature (Urbana, IL, 1969)
A. Silbiger: ‘The First Viol Tutor: Hans Gerle's Musica Teusch’, JVdGSA, vi (1969), 34–48
A. Wirsta: L'enseignement du violon au XIXième siècle (diss., U. of Paris, 1971, addenda, 1974)
R. Donington: String Playing in Baroque Music (London, 1977)
R. Stowell: ‘Violin Bowing in Transition’, EMc, xii (1984), 316–27
P. Walls: ‘Violin Fingering in the 18th Century’, EMc, xii (1984), 300–15
S. Monosoff: ‘Violin Fingering’, EMc, xiii (1985), 76–9
R. Stowell: Violin Technique and Performance Practice in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries (Cambridge, 1985)
M.W. Riley: The Teaching of Bowed Instruments from 1511 to 1756 (Ann Arbor, 1986)
G. Moens-Haenen: Das Vibrato in der Musik des Barok: ein Handbuch zur Aufführungspraxis für Vokalisten und Instrumentalisten (Graz, 1988)
P. Walls: ‘The Influence of the Italian Violin School in 17th-Century England’, EMc, xviii (1990), 575–87
R. Philip: Early Recordings and Musical Style: Changing Tastes in Instrumental Performance, 1900–1950 (Cambridge, 1992)
P. Allsop: ‘Violinistic Virtuosity in the Seventeenth Century: Italian Supremacy or Austro-German Hegemony?’, Il saggiatore musicale, iii (1996), 233–58
e: to 1600
B. de Beaujoyeux: Le balet comique de la Royne (Paris, 1582/R)
H. Prunières: ‘La musique de la chambre et de l'écurie sous la règne de François Ier (1516–1547)’, Année musicale, i (1912), 215–51
F. Lesure: ‘La communauté des joueurs d'instruments au XVIe siècle’, Revue historique de droit français et étranger, 4th ser., xxxi (1953), 79–109
W.L. Woodfill: Musicians in English Society from Elizabeth to Charles I (Princeton, NJ, 1953/R)
F. Lesure: ‘Les orchestres populaires à Paris vers la fin du XVIe siècle’, RdM, xxxvi (1954), 39–54
D.D. Boyden: ‘The Tenor Violin: Myth, Mystery or Misnomer?’, Festschrift Otto Erich Deutsch, ed. W. Gerstenberg, J. LaRue and W. Rehm (Kassel, 1963), 273–9
D. Kämper: Studien zur instrumentalen Ensemblemusik des 16. Jahrhunderts in Italien, AnMc, no.10 (1970)
H.M. Brown: Sixteenth-Century Instrumentation: the Music for the Florentine Intermedii, MSD, xxx (1973)
B. Geiser: Studien zur Frühgeschichte der Violine (Berne, 1974)
K. Moens: ‘Problems of Authenticity of Sixteenth Century Stringed Instruments’, CIMCIM Newletter, xiv (1989), 41–9
K. Polk: ‘Vedel und Geige – Fiddle and Viol: German String Traditions in the Fifteenth Century’, JAMS, xlii (1989), 504–46
L. Libin: ‘Early Violins: Problems and Issues’, EMc, xix (1991), 5–6
K. Polk: German Instrumental Music of the Late Middle Ages (Cambridge, 1992)
P. Holman: Four and Twenty Fiddlers: the Violin at the English Court 1540–1690 (Oxford, 1993, 2/1995)
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g: performers
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h: jazz and blues
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