INDEX

Acis, 163

Acis and Galatea, 77, 81

Addison, 187, 188

Adrianna, 147

Aïda, 283

Air-stream (or air-column), 74, 75, 76, 86, 92, 98, 107

Alceste, 109

Alcyone, 171

Alps, 21

Amati, Andreas, 25, 59, 64, 138-139

Amati, Antonio and Geronimo, 25

Amati, Nicolò, 25-26, 27, 64, 178

“Amatis, Grand,” 26

American taste, 273

Anne of Austria, 152, 154

Antoniotti, 59

Anvil Chorus, 129

Anvils, 129, 163

Après midi d’un faune, 270, 271-272

Arditi, 70

Arnould, Sophie, 105

Arpa doppia, 144

Arpeggios, 41

Art of Bowing (Tartini), 44

Attack, 42, 162

Atys, 164

Bach, Johann Sebastian, 57, 62, 104, 111, 185-187, 210, 260, 262, 290, 299

Bach, Philipp Emmanuel, 186

Ballet-music, 140, 196

Baltzar, Thomas, 173, 174, 176

Banquet of Dainty Conceits, 136

Barberini, Cardinal, 150

Barberini Theatre, 150

Barret, A. M. R., 85

Barrère, George, quoted, 75

Bassani, Giovanni Battista, 179

Bass-bar, 14, 15

Basse de viole, 47, 168, 170. See Viola da gamba

Basset-horn, 101-102

Basson, 95

Bassoon, 91-96;

air-column, 92;

compass, 92;

construction, 91;

keys, 92;

tone, 92

Bassoon, double, 96

Bass tuba. See Tuba

Bass viol, 47. See Basse de viole and Viola da gamba

Battery, 5, 264

Bavaria, King of, 256

Bayreuth, 256

Beethoven, 41, 52, 61, 69, 77, 81, 82, 88, 93, 94, 96, 100, 114, 120, 121, 199, 214-232, 244, 262, 290, 299

Beethoven as conductor, 220, 227

Beethoven, quoted, 196

Bells, 130-131

Bells of Montsalvat, 131

Benda, Franz, 79

Benvenuto Cellini, overture, 251

Bergonzi, Carlo, 64

Berlioz, 52, 78, 83, 90, 114, 117, 243-251, 260, 267, 268, 279-282, 289;

orchestra of, 247;

quoted, 42-43, 53, 65, 80-82, 87-88, 89, 99-100, 111, 114, 226

Berteau, 60

Beyle, Henri Marie. See Stendhal

Birthday Ode, Queen Anne’s, 188

Bizet, 117

Black Tulip, The, 166

Bocan, 154, 155, 156, 157

Boccherini, 62

Boehm, Theobald, 75, 76

Bologna, 24, 179

Bombardino, 83

Bombardino-Chalumeau Family, 84, 90, 96

Bombardo, 83

Bossier, violin, 30, 31

Bottesini, 70

Bourgeois Gentilhomme, Le, 160

Bouts, 19, 22

Bow, the, 43

Bowing, 40-41, 162, 180

Brahms, 95, 96, 265

Brass instruments, 5, 152, 259, 263-264

Brass wind, 5. See Brass instruments

Brescia, 21, 22, 23, 25, 179

Brian Boru, harp of, 284

Bridge, 14

Brienne, Comte de, quoted, 155

Bruyère, La, 165;

quoted, 166, 167

Bucina, 104

Bülow, Hans von, 121, 262

Burney, quoted, 173, 177, 182, 183, 195, 204-206

Buysine, 112

Cannabich, 211, 216

Cannons, 188, 289

Cantus, 49

Carillon, 127

Carmen, 117

Carnaval Romain, 83

Carnegie Hall, opening of, 265

Carpenter Edward, quoted, 231

Casals, Pablo, 61

Casse Noisette Suite, 78, 102, 267

Castanets, 126, 163

Cat’s Fugue, 184

Celesta, 128, 267

Cellini, Benvenuto, 22

Cembalo, 151, 291, 293

Cesti, Antonio, 151

Chalumeau, 83, 84, 97

Chandos, Duke of, 188, 289

Chanterelle, 39, 171

Charles I, of England, 154

Charles II, of England, 173;

music under, 173-177

Charles IX, of France, 59, 244

Chaucer, 292

Cherubini, 94, 105

Chest of viols, 29

Childe Harold, 52

Chitarone, 137, 140

Chopin, 232, 299

Chorale, 185

Christina, of Sweden, 180

Cimbalon, 128

Cimbelom, 291

Clarinet, 96-101, 195, 210, 236, 241, 258, 264;

air-column, 98;

compass, 99;

registers, 97;

voice of, 97, 99

Clarinet, bass, 101, 102

Clarinet, double-bass, 102;

voice of, 102

“Clarinet Symphony,” 100

Clarino, 110, 143

Clarion, 110, 112

Claro, 110, 112

Classical music, 232, 255

Clavecin, 140, 153, 293, 299

Clavicembali, 143, 150

Clavicembalo, 293, 296

Clavichord, 293, 299

Clavicordo, 293

Clavicymball, 296

Clavicymbalum, 293

Clavicymbel, 293

Clavicymbolum, 296

Clavier, 293

Clementi, 299

Clemenza di Tito, 102

Coerne, quoted, 263-264

Collasse, Pascal, 169

Colonne, 268

Combattimento di Tancrede e Clorinda, 146

Concert of lutes, 57

Concert of viols, 57, 62

Concert-master, 41

Concertino, 190

Conductor, 6, 42, 135, 146, 274-278;

Beethoven, 227;

Corelli, 180-181;

Handel, 189-191;

Lully, 162-164;

Mendelssohn, 242-243;

Mozart, 212;

Wagner, 256;

Weber, 235

Consorts (lutes), 173

Constantin, 156, 157

Coppelia, 82

Cor, anglais, 84, 88-89;

compass, 89;

tone, 89

Cor à piston, 108

Cordier, Jacques, 154

Corelli, Arcangelo, 43, 60, 178-182;

conducting of, 180-181

Corner blocks, 18-19, 27

Cornet, 116, 153

Cornet Family, 116

Cornu, 104

Couac, 73

Couched harp, 295

Couperin, 273, 290

Cousineau, 288

Creation, The, 77, 96

Cremona, 10, 21, 24-25, 141, 179, 297

Cristofori, 298-299

Crooks, 107, 108

Cruit, 283

Crusaders, 122

Crwth, 283

Cuckoo, 130

Cymbals, 124-125

Cyrano, 107

Damnation of Faust, 83, 117, 246, 251

Damrosch, Walter, 107, 121, 264, 269

Dance-music, 153, 160, 179, 181, 184, 196

Dannreuther, Edward, quoted, 248-249, 259-260

Danse Macabre, 41, 128, 130

Dante, 143

Dante Symphony, 254

Debussy, 260, 269-273, 289;

quoted, 272-273

Delibes, 82

Denner, J. C., 97

Descoteaux, 165-166, 173

Devil’s Sonata, 44

Diapasons, 138

Discant, 18, 47

Divertissement, 141

Don Giovanni, 51, 69, 93, 100, 114

Don Juan, 95

Don Quixote Variations, 53, 63, 78, 102, 261

Double-bass, 47, 67-71;

Amati, 70;

Bergonzi, 70;

Gasparo di Salò, 70;

Stradivari, 70;

strings of, 67

Dragonetti, 70, 227

Drum, bass, 123;

sticks, 123;

side, 122;

heads, 122;

playing of, 122;

roll, 122

Duiffoprugcar, G., 48

Dulcimer, 291, 292, 293

Dumanoir, 157

Duport, Jean Louis, 60, 63

Dürer, Albrecht, 152

Dvořák, 77, 90, 101

Egmont, overture, 52, 82

“Elector Stainers,” 34

Elgar, 53, 95, 121

Elijah, 62, 77, 117, 241

Embouchure, 73, 75

Enfance du Christ, 78, 247, 289

Engel, Carl, quoted, 83

English horn, 89

Enigma, 95

Érard, 279, 289

Eroica Symphony, 88, 223, 225

“Esterhazy,” 198-199

Esterhazy, Prince, 197, 252

Esther, 192, 289

Euryanthe, 236, 237

Fagott, 95

Fagotto, 95

Fancies, 175

Fanfares, 104

Fantastic Symphony, 250, 254

Fasch, C. F., 79

“Father of Classical Music,” 183

“Father of the Orchestra,” 199

“Father of Modern Orchestration,” 246

Faust, Symphony, 254

f-holes, 12, 18, 20, 30, 31

Fidelio, 88

Fifth Symphony (Beethoven), 52, 69

Fifth Symphony (Tschaikowsky), 95

Finck, Henry T., quoted, 254

First violin, 41, 42

“Flaming-sword” sound-holes, 20, 57

“Flowers,” 179

Flügel, 293

Flute, 73-79, 153, 273;

air-stream, 74, 75, 76;

compass, 74;

construction, 74;

keys, 74, 75;

playing of, 74;

scale, 75;

voice, 73

Flute-players, famous French, 165-168, 173

Flutes, 146, 151, 153, 163, 165-167

Flutter tongue, 78

Flying Dutchman, overture, 109, 256

Forsyth, Cecil, quoted, 117

Foucard, 156

Francesca da Rimini, 101

Franchomme, A., 64

Franciscello, 60, 183

Francisco II, Duke of Modena, 59

Frederick the Great, 78

Freischütz, 81, 100, 105, 106, 236-237

French composers, modern, 270

French flute-players, 165-168, 173

French horn, 108

Frichot, 116

Galiano, Alessandro, 64

Galiano, Januarius, 64

Galilei, quoted, 287

Galli, Domenico, 59

Gamme La (Marais), 171

Gardiner, William, quoted, 300

Gasparo di Salò, 21, 22, 23, 25, 33, 48, 50, 71, 135, 138, 141, 179

Gatti, Teobaldo di, 168

Geminiani, 180, 193;

quoted, 180

George I, of England, 188

Gevaert, 101, 119

Giraldus, quoted, 284-285

Gladstone, quoted, 16

Glockenspiel, 127, 131

Gluck, 69, 78, 82, 88, 94, 100, 106, 193-196, 244

Golden Legend, 149

Gonzaga, Francesco di, 142

Gossec, 105

Götterdämmerung, Die, 105, 115

Grande Mademoiselle, La, 159-160

Gravicembalo, 183, 293, 295, 297

Great Fire of London, 295

Grieg, 265

Grove, Sir George, quoted, 228, 230

Guarneri, 26, 32

Guillaume Tell. See William Tell

Guitar-fiddle, 17

Habeneck, 239, 268

Hackbrett, 291

Hadden, J. Cuthbert, quoted, 206

Hammer, 294, 299

Handel, 62, 77, 96, 111, 127, 187-193, 210, 289, 290;

caricature of, 191;

conductor, 189-191

Hänsel and Gretel, 95, 130

Harmonics, 39, 64, 69, 113

Harold Symphony (Harold in Italy), 52, 250

Harp, 5-6, 195, 247, 255, 260, 264, 279-289

Harp, Egyptian, 283;

English, 287;

Irish, 283;

mediæval, 288;

Scottish, 286;

Welsh, 286

Harpers, Irish, 284-285;

Welsh, 285

Harps, 260

Harpsichord, 183, 186, 195, 293, 295, 296, 297-298

Harpsicordo, 293

Haweis, quoted, 15, 26, 28, 34-36

Haydn, 77, 88, 93, 96, 130, 183, 196-207, 210, 217, 218, 262

Hebrides, overture, 96, 101

Heine, quoted, 245

Heinrich, Carl, quoted, 111

Heldenleben, 90, 95

Hellier violin, 30

Henrietta Maria, 154

Henry VIII, 122, 295

Heron-Allen, quoted, 30-32

Horn, 103-110;

air-stream, 107;

bell, 103, 107;

construction, 107;

crooks, 107;

keys, 107;

playing of, 107-108;

tone, 108

Horns, 104, 107, 109, 163, 182, 191, 236, 259, 263;

modified, 117

Huguenots Les, 82, 130

Hummel, 299

Humperdinck, 95, 130

Huneker, James G., quoted, 260-261

Hungarian Rhapsodie, No. 2, 77;

Rhapsodies, 254, 290

Hurdy-gurdy, 17

Improvisation (Beethoven’s), 216

Improvisation (Handel’s), 189

Incoronazione di Poppea, 146

Ingegneri, Marc Antonio, 142

Instruments, Sixteenth-century, 136-139

Interludes, instrumental, 140

Intonation, 38

Iphigénie en Aulide, 87;

en Tauride, 80, 88

Ireland, arms of, 287

Isis, 163, 169

Israel in Egypt, 188

Istromento di porco, 292

Jacks, 294

Jahn, quoted, 212

Jingles, 125

Joachim, quoted, 36-37

Joseph del Gesù, 32-33

Jubilee, Saint-Saëns, 269

Kettledrums, 120-122, 191, 197, 200;

compass, 121;

sticks, 121;

tuning, 121

“King, The” (violoncello), 60

Kirchmann, 298

Kreisler, Fritz, 30

La Bas, 168

Labyrinth (Marais), 171

La Londe, 172

Lalouette, Jean François, 169

Lamoureux, 268

Landi, Stefano, 149

Lanzetti, 59

Lavignac, Albert, 270;

quoted, 42, 54, 65, 73, 84, 89, 92, 97, 98, 108, 110, 113, 130, 257-258

Lazarin, 156

Leclerc, Guy, 169

Léger, 156

Lesueur, 249

Lichnowsky, Prince, 218, 220

Liebich, Mrs. F., quoted, 271-272

Liszt, 41, 60, 77, 102, 124, 243, 251-255, 260, 267, 290, 299, 301;

quoted, 299-300

Lobkowitz, Prince, 223

Local coloring, 237

Lodoiska, 105

Lohengrin, 253, 256

Lombardy, 21, 49, 142, 179

“Long Strads,” 31

Louis XIII, 154

Louis XIV, 155;

age of, 158;

music of, 160

Lulli. See Lully

Lully, Jean Baptiste, 158-164, 174, 195, 269, 277, 278

Lute, 168

Lute, bass, 140;

tenor, 137

Lutes, 29, 57, 58, 137, 140

Luther, Martin, 185

Lyre, 140

Madrigals, 136, 142

Maestro di Capella, 142, 147, 148

Maggini, Giovanni Paolo, 21, 23-24, 64, 141, 179

Magic flute, 77, 114, 127

Manfred, overture, 114

Mantua, Duke of, 141

Marais, Marin, 165, 169-172

Marchand, Jean Baptiste, 168

Marche Slave, 95

Marie Antoinette, 194

Marly, 155, 156

Martini, Padre, quoted, 193

Maximilian, Triumph of, 152

Mazarin, Cardinal, 152, 157

Mazeppa, 41, 102

Mazzocchi, Vergilio, 148;

school of, 148-149

Medea, 94

Medici, Ferdinand de’, 298

Meistersinger, Die, 62, 70, 77, 109, 127, 257, 264

Melodic instruments, 85, 86, 106

Melusine, 101, 241

Mendelssohn, 6, 62, 77, 94, 96, 101, 105, 240-243;

conducting, 242-243

Mersenne, quoted, 154, 156, 292

Messiah (Handel’s), 188, 191

“Messiah,” violin, 30, 32

Metsu, 55

Meyerbeer, 82, 90, 130, 289

Midsummer Night’s Dream (Mendelssohn’s), 6-8, 77, 95, 105, 117, 240, 241

Military Symphony, 93

Modern Music Master, 293

Molière, 160

Monodic music, 140

Monteverde, Claudio, 141-148, 295

Montpensier, Mademoiselle de, 159-160

Mozart, Leopold, 207

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 51, 69, 77, 93, 100, 105, 114, 127, 199, 207-214, 262, 267, 289, 290

Mozartiana, 267

“Music of the Future,” 243, 253, 255

Music of the Renaissance, 48, 152, 185

Music of the Seventeenth Century, 58

“Musicians’ musician,” 186

Musurgia, 292

Naggareh, 122

“Nakers,” 122

Newman, Ernest, quoted, 244-245, 246-247, 265

New World Symphony, 77, 90, 101

Nibelungen Ring, 256, 259

Ninth Symphony, 52, 69, 88, 94, 96, 114, 120, 121

Nuance, 192

Nut Cracker Suite, 78, 102, 267

Oberon, 101, 106, 236, 237

Oboe, 83-88, 89, 189;

air-column, 85;

compass, 86;

construction, 85;

keys, 87;

playing of, 86;

reed, 86;

scale, 86;

voice, 84

Oboe d’amore, 84, 186, 264

Oboe di caccia, 84, 90, 186

Ode to Joy, 70

Ole Bull, 22, 29

“Olifant,” 103

Opera, dawn of, 139

Opera, Italian, 139, 142-152

Operas, Gluck’s, 196;

Handel’s, 188

Ophicleide, 116, 117, 247

Oratorios, Handel’s, 188

Orchestra, 3-8, 42, 65, 68;

Bach, 192, 209;

Beethoven, 230;

Berlioz, 247;

Cesti, 151;

Corelli, 180;

Dresden, 234, 235, 256;

Eleventh-century, 273;

French, 153;

Gluck, 194;

Handel, 189, 192, 209;

Haydn, 199, 200, 223;

Landi, 149-150;

Louis XIV, 155;

Lully, 160, 161-164, 172;

Mannheim, 210;

Monteverde, 143-144;

Mozart, 223, 229;

Scarlatti, 183;

Venetian, 150;

Wagner, 258

Orchestral palette, 209-210

Orchestral solos, 186

Orchestration, Debussy, 270-271;

Liszt, 255;

Strauss, 263-264;

Tschaikowsky, 267;

Wagner, 257-258

Orfeo, Gluck, 69, 78, 88, 94, 196;

Monteverde, 141-146

Organ, 143, 151, 186, 199

Organists, German, 185

Otello, 70, 82

Ottoboni, Cardinal, 180

Ouvertures (Lully), 174

Over-blowing, 76, 87, 92, 108

Paganini, 33, 45, 249, 250, 252

“Paganini of the ’cello,” 61

Paliarino, 298

Papa Haydn, 199

Parsifal, 131

Pasdeloup, 268

Pastoral Symphony, 77, 82, 88, 101, 226

Pathetic Symphony, 53, 95

Pelleas et Mélisande, 270

Pepys, quoted, 295

Percussion instruments, 5, 119-131

“Petits Violons,” 160, 172

Petrushka, 301

Philbert, 167-168, 173

Piatti, Alfredo, 61, 63

Pianoforte, 290-301

Pianoforte Concerto in E-flat (Liszt), 124

Pianoforte recital, first, 299

Piccini, 194, 197

Piccolo, 79-83

Piffero pastorale, 83

Pills to Purge Melancholy, 177

Pitch, definite, 119;

indefinite, 119

Pizzicato, 41

Plague, the, 23, 147

Platel, N. J., 61

Plectrum, 291, 292, 294

Polyphonic Music, 140, 142

Pommers, 83

Pomo d’oro, Il, 151

Pomone, 93

Pomp and Circumstance, 95

Portamento, 40

Pourceaugnac, 160

Preciosa, 160, 237

Princesse d’Élide, La, 163

“Prison Josephs,” 33

Provence, 17

Psaltérion, 273, 291, 292

Psaltery, 291, 292, 293, 295

Purfling, 13, 23

Quantz, 78

Quartet, string, 58, 62

Quartet, woodwind, 83

Queen Anne, court of, 187-188

Queen Mab Scherzo, 246

Quill, 294, 297

Quinault, 160

Quintons, 139

Raguenet, Abbé, quoted, 173

Rameau, 184, 195, 269, 273

Ranz des Vaches, 90

Rasoumoffsky Quartet, 218

Rattle, 129

Reed, 72, 86;

double, 85, 89;

single, 97

Reed family, 72

Regale, 143

Regibo, 116

Renaissance, the, 48, 152, 185, 277;

French, 269;

instruments, 136-139, 143-144;

music, 136-152

René, King, 269

Requiem (Mozart’s), 93, 102

Revolution of 1830, 244, 269

Rheingold Das, 115, 259, 289

Richard the Second, 135

Richelieu, Cardinal de, 154-155

Riddle, 48

Ride of the Walküre, 82

Rienzi, 117, 256

Ries, 216, 220

Rinaldo, 81

Ripienist, 190

Robert le Diable, 82-90, 289

Rolland, Romain, quoted, 162, 163, 190, 192-193, 196

Romantic music, 232

Romantic movement, 244, 252

Romaunt of the Rose, 288

Rome, opera in, 150

Roméo et Juliette, Symphony, 246, 250

Rospigliosi, Giulio, 149

Rossini, 62, 90, 130

Rouet d’Omphale, 268

Rubinstein, Anton, 266;

quoted, 266

Rubinstein, Nicholas, 266

Ruckers, 297-298

Ruy Blas, overture, 94

Sacchini, 100

Sackbut, 112, 116

S. Alessio, 149

St. Cecilia, picture of, 19, 20

Saint Paul, 62

Saint-Saëns, 41, 126, 128, 130, 268-269, 301

Salieri, 227, 238, 252

Salterio, 291

Samson, 188

Samson et Dalila, 126

Sarasate, 269

Saul, 127, 188

Savoyard in Paris, Little, 17

Scarlatti, Alessandro, 62, 180, 182-183, 187;

Domenico, 183-184, 293, 297

Schalmei, 83

Schalmey, 84, 91

Schalmey-Pommer Family, 90, 91

Schubert, 88, 105, 114, 239-240

Schumann, 114, 232, 233

Schuppanzigh Quartet, 218

Score, 274-275

Scotch Symphony, 94

Seasons, The, 88

Semele, 191

Serpent, the, 116

Servais, A. F., 61, 63

Shakespeare, 56, 58, 134-5

Shawm, 83, 84

Sheridan, 191

Siegfried, 109, 115, 127

Siegfried Idyll, 109

Simonelli, Matteo, 179

Sinfonia Domestica, 131

Snares, 122

Sordino, 40

Sound-holes, 12, 18, 20, 22, 23, 27, 30, 31, 57

Sound-post, 14, 15

Speaker-keys, 85

Spinet, 293, 294-295, 299

Spinetta traversa, 294

Spinetti, Giovanni, 294

Spitta, Dr., quoted, 233, 237

Spohr, 289

Spontini, 81

Stabat Mater (Rossini), 94

Stainer, Jacob, 34

Stamford, Charles Villiers, quoted, 70

Stamitz, 211

Steele, 187, 188

Stendhal, quoted, 200-204, 208

Stone, W. H., quoted, 93, 94

Stradivari, Antonio, 15, 16, 26-32, 63, 178, 250;

house of, 28

“Stradivari of the Bow,” 43

Strauss, Richard, 41, 53, 63, 78, 82, 90, 95, 102, 109, 128, 129, 131, 260, 289;

quoted, 262

Stravinsky, 301

String-quartet, 58, 62

Strings, 4, 152, 153

Suites (Bach), 187

Surprise Symphony, 200

Symphonic Poems (Liszt), 254;

Tschaikowsky, 266

Symphonie Fantastique, 90.

See Symphony

Symphonie Pathetique, 267

“Symphonies,” 140, 144, 168

Symphonies (Haydn), 202-204;

Mozart, 208;

Schubert, 239

Symphony (Beethoven), First, 93, 223;

Second, 94, 101, 220;

Eighth, 94, 227, 242;

Fifth, 96;

Fourth, 94, 224;

Ninth, 94, 96, 228;

Third (Eroica) 88, 223, 225;

Seventh, 100, 120, 227;

Sixth (Pastoral), 77, 82, 88, 101, 226

Symphony in C (Saint-Saëns), 301

Symphony in C-major (Schubert), 88, 105, 114, 239

Symphony in C-minor (Brahms), 95, 96

Symphony, Mozart’s first, 210

Symphony in E-flat (Mozart), 100

Symphony in F-minor (Tschaikowsky), 41

Symphony Society of New York, 273

Tabel, 298

Tambour de Basque, 126, 163

Tambourin, 126

Tambourine, 125-126

Tannhäuser, 53, 109, 126, 253

Tartini, 44, 60

Temperament, 186

Tennyson, quoted, 104

Tenor, 49

Tenor viol, 49, 67

Ter Borch, 55

Theorbo, 137, 153

Till Eulenspiegel, 83, 95, 110, 129

Tone, search for, 178

Tone-color, 209-210

Tonguing, 75, 86

Touch, 290

Tourte, François, 43, 44-46

Toy Symphony, 130

“Trackers,” 85

“Tragic Symphony,” 239

Transposing instrument, 89

Treatise on Instrumentation (Berlioz), 249

Treble, 18, 47

Triangle, 124

Triébert, 85

Tristan and Isolde, 63, 90, 109, 257, 263

Triumph of Death, 292

Trombone, 112-115, 263;

bell, 112;

compass, 113;

harmonics, 113;

position, 112;

slide, 112, 113;

tone, 113

Troubadours, 17, 18

Trouvères, 269

Trovatore, Il, 129, 130

Trumpet, 110-112;

keys, 111;

voice, 110

Tschaikowsky, 41, 53, 78, 95, 101, 128, 260, 264-267

Tschudi, 298;

quoted, 267

Tuba, bass, 115, 247, 267

Tubas, 117-118, 258, 264

“Tubular Chimes,” 131

Tuileries, 159

Tulip mania, 165-166

Twelfth Night, quoted, 56, 58

“Twenty-four Violins of the King,” 154-160, 169

Twenty-four Violins (Charles II), 173-174, 175-177

Tympanon, 291

Tyrol, 21, 34, 48

Unfinished Symphony, 239

Urfey, Thomas d’, quoted, 177

Variations (Elgar), 121

Venice, opera in, 150

Verdi, 70, 82, 130, 283

Verdier, 168

Versailles, 155, 156

Vibrato, 154

Vielle, 17, 18, 43, 273

Vienna, opera in, 151

Viol, Bass, 171

Viol Family, 47, 55, 58, 67, 68, 139

Viol, tenor, 49, 67, 173

Viola, 47-54, 63, 67, 70, 236, 250;

Berlioz, quoted, 53;

Gasparo di Salò, 50;

Lavignac, quoted, 54;

Maggini, 50;

strings, 47;

tone, 54

Viola d’amore, 20, 47, 57, 58, 186

Viola da braccio, 47, 67, 138

Viola da gamba, 47, 55, 56-58, 59, 67, 136, 138, 170, 186

Viola da spalla, 138

Viole, 17, 43

Violin, 9-43, 49, 57, 58, 67, 146, 153, 173-176, 178, 186, 187;

age of, 16, 21;

ancestry, 17;

bass-bar, 14, 15;

belly, 12;

birthplace, 21;

bouts, 19, 21;

bridge, 14;

charm of, 9-10;

construction, 13-14;

corner-blocks, 18-19, 27;

f-holes, 12, 18, 20, 30, 31;

Lavignac, quoted, 42;

model, 11;

neck, 16;

nervous system, 15;

parts of, 13;

positions, 38;

purfling, 13, 23;

ribs, 12;

scroll, 11, 16;

soul of the, 15;

sound-holes, 12, 18, 20, 22, 23, 27, 30, 31, 57;

sound-post, 14, 15;

tension, 15;

tongue of the, 14;

varnish, 13, 22, 23, 25, 26, 27, 30, 31-32, 35;

voice, 10;

waist, 18;

wood, 13, 23, 25, 34-35

Violin Family, 178

Violin, the Little, 49

Violino, 48, 138, 139

Violino piccolo, 49

Violins, Amati, 25-26;

Bergonzi, 33;

Berlioz, quoted, 42-43;

Gasparo di Salò, 22;

Guarneri, 26, 32-23;

Maggini, 23-24;

Stainer, 34;

Stradivari, 30-32

Violoncello, 55-66, 67, 69, 146, 175, 183, 191, 236, 242;

Berlioz, quoted, 65-66;

Lavignac, quoted, 65;

strings, 64

Violone, 47, 68

Viols, 58, 138-139, 141, 146, 156, 173, 175-176;

chest of, 29;

concert of, 62;

consort of, 57, 62

Viotti, 44, 60

Virginal, 293, 295

Vizé, 167

Vogler, Abbé, 234

Voltaire, 61

Wagner, 52-53, 62, 70, 77, 82, 95, 101, 109, 115, 126, 127, 129, 147, 256-260, 261, 262, 264, 265, 278, 289;

conductor, 256;

quoted, 248, 261

Walküre, Die, 127, 289

Weber, Carl Maria von, 81, 94, 100-101, 105, 106, 232-238, 244;

conductor, 235;

quoted, 224

Widor, quoted, 124

Wieprecht, W. F., 115

Wilhelmj, 256

William Tell, overture, 62, 90, 130

Wind instruments, 141, 152

Wind-machine, 129

Wodehouse, A. W., quoted, 232

“Wolf,” the, 50

Wood, Anthony, quoted, 175-177

Woodwind, 4-5, 72-102, 184, 189, 258

Xylophone, 128

Zimbalist, Efrem, 23-24

Zinke, 115