The volume comprises fifteen essays, written by a team of specialists, and is intended to develop the violin's historical perspective in breadth and from every relevant angle. The Cambridge Companion to the Violin offers students, performers, and scholars a fascinating and composite survey of the history and repertory of the instrument from its origins to the present day. The violin and bow : origins and development / John Dilworth - The physics of the violin / Bernard Richardson - The violinists of the Baroque and Classical periods / Simon McVeigh - The nineteenth-century bravura tradition / Robin Stowell - The twentieth century / Eric Wen - The fundamentals of violin playing and teaching / Adrian Eales - Technique and performing practice / Robin Stowell - Aspects of contemporary technique (with comments about Cage, Feldman, Scelsi and Babbitt) / Paul Zukofsky - The concerto The sonata Other solo repertory / Robin Stowell - The violin as ensemble instrument / Peter Allsop - The pedagogical literature / Robin Stowell - The violin : instrument of four continents / Peter Cooke - The violin in jazz / Max Harrison. Violin music-History and criticism Description/Summary
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