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Carlo Farina’s 1627 Capriccio Stravagante uses four violin-family instruments (violin, two violas, and a violoncello-range instrument) to mimic other instruments such as trumpets, shawms, organs, and guitars. This investigation seeks to equip the modern performer by framing the piece in the context of contemporary understandings and techniques. Car...
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... which appears at least by the end of the seventeenth century, in reference to Rupert Ignaz Mayr. However, since both terms are invented rather than Classic vocabulary (rumors about Nero aside), perhaps they do not bear much scrutiny. the second fret of the fourth string to the tenth "fret" of the third string, a span of roughly 5 inches ( fig. 2). However, such subjective evidence is ultimately unnecessary in the case of the Capriccio, at least, because Farina himself uses much more violin-specific words in his avertimenti. In both the Italian and German renderings of his instructions he uses the most clearly violin-related terms possible: "al scannello del violino," "levando ...
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