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Syntagma musicum II, Plate XXI. (Public domain.)

Syntagma musicum II, Plate XXI. (Public domain.)

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Figure 1 Syntagma musicum's scale: the Brunswick foot. (Public domain.)
Figure 2 Syntagma musicum II, Plate XXI. (Public domain.)
Figure 3 Guido Reni, Saint Cecilia, 1606, oil on canvas, The Norton...
Figure 4 Judith Leyster, Boy Playing the Flute, c. 1630, oil on canvas,...
+3 Figure 7 Reduced viola by Andrea Amati, the "Propugnaculo" (NMM 3370),...
Reconstructing Lost Instruments: Praetorius’s Syntagma musicum and the Violin Family c. 1619
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  • Oct 2019
Michael Praetorius’s De organographia and Theatrum instrumentorum provide valuable clues that contribute to a new understanding of the violin family c. 1619, many surviving examples of which are reduced in size from their sixteenth- and seventeenth-century dimensions. The record of surviving instruments – especially those of the Amati family – alon...
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... Plate XXI illustrates the three principal members of the violin family as they were at the time: the (Rechte) Discant-, Tenor-and Bas-Geig de bracio -that is, the violin, viola and what we now call the cello (nos. 4-6, respectively; see Figure 2). The instruments and tunings of the early violin family have long been the object of scholarly debate. ...