| Edition |
First Pegasus Books edition. |
| Description |
214 pages : maps ; 24 cm |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
Prelude -- First movement. Child of many fathers; Cremona and the modern violin -- Musical people; How violins became stars of the musical world -- Pilgrim in Cremona; The great violin-making dynasties -- Message from the mountains; The ancient trade in violin wood -- Second movement. Church music; A chapter in the life of Lev's violin -- Mood music; The lives of church violins and their musicians -- Political instruments; Violins at the Medici Court in Florence -- Cozio; The world's first violin collector and connoisseur -- Tarisio; The beginning of an international trade in Cremona violins -- Third movement. Old Italians; Violin dealing for a modern age -- Little Italys; The diaspora of Italians and their violins -- Musica popolare; Roma fiddles and Italian folk music -- Fourth movement. Twice looted; The fate of old Italians during the second world war -- Full circle; Revival in Cremona -- Violin A & E; The difference between copies and fakes -- Smuggled; Lev's violin in the USSR -- All about rings; A dendrochronology test and its result -- Coda. |
| Subject |
Attlee, Helena, 1958- -- Travel.
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Violin -- Italy -- History.
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Music -- Social aspects -- Italy -- History.
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Italy -- History.
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Italy -- Social life and customs.
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| Genre or Form |
Travel writing.
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| Added Title |
Story of music, culture, and Italian adventure |
| ISBN |
9781643137209 hardcover |
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1643137204 hardcover |
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