TY - JOUR
AU1 - REMANANT, MARY
AB - MARY REMNANT 1 Caption* on page 48 2 'It is to be hoped that the "Cremonese" school of medieval was only too frequent. Nevertheless, to say 'Fiddles which fiddle making is doomed'—thus ends Christopher Page's are carelessly drawn are of no use as evidence' is a harsh article 'An aspect of medieval fiddle construction' in the judgement. An instrument may be inconsistent in one July 1974 issue of Early Music. Using the word 'fiddle' in its respect but quite reasonable in others. There are, for in- generic sense, he reasons that, as many medieval pictures of stance, numerous pictures of fiddles which have an indeter- fiddles show no nut or fingerboard, their strings must have minate number of strings, but also show the distinct been intended to pass directly from the bridge or its equiva- presence of a fingerboard. When these are added to the lent to the pegs, having no intervening contact with the number of more accurate pictures, it becomes apparent that instrument itself. He compares this aspect of their construc- the fingerboard was in fact widely used before 1300, and tion to that of Greek and Cretan lyrai, and calls for per- does go back to 
TI - The diversity of medieval fiddles
JF - Early Music
DA - 1975-02-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/the-diversity-of-medieval-fiddles-56psAVFvIQ
SP - 47
EP - 51
VL - 3
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -