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An Incomplete
History of the Art of Funerary Violin
After many years of thorough research into the forgotten Art
of Funerary Violin, Rohan Kriwaczek's seminal book on the subject,
An Incomplete History of the Art of Funerary Violin,
is finally due to be published by Duckworth in September
2006, with the American release by Overlook to follow
soon after.
224pp.
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this book from Amazon.co.uk
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Rohan Kriwaczek is
currently working on a new book, however, for now the subject will
remain secret as it is known to him that a number of other scholars
and writers are chasing similar leads towards what will undoubtedly
be a major reassessment of the history of English literarature... |
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From its origins in the Elizabethan Protestant
Reformation, to its final extinction amidst the guns of the
First World War, the Art of Funerary Violin was characterised
by many unique and frequently misunderstood qualities that
set it quite apart from all other forms of music. Indeed it
is these distinctive characteristics that make it a truly
unique genre, with its own specific concerns, aesthetic and
function. Throughout the many changes in culture and society
between the foundation of the Guild of Funerary Violinists
in 1580 and the death of Niklaus Friedhaber (the last of the
practising official Funerary Violinists) in 1915, it retained
a trueness to its origins and function, and a commitment to
purity of form and mode, unparalleled in any other Western
European musical tradition: due, in part, to the exclusive
social role it played in relating the greatness of the higher
classes directly to the ears of the lower classes.....
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