Footnote_25
Of several treatises which Tartini has written, the one most celebrated, his “Trattato di Musica, secondo in vera scienza dell’ Armonia,” is that in which he unfolds the nature of this discovery, and deduces many observations tending to explain the musical scale, and, in the opinion of some persons, to correct several of the intervals of which it is composed.
Footnote_26
For Tartini’s judicious letter of elementary hints, addressed to Madame Sirmen, see the chapter on
Footnote_27
Query,
Footnote_28
See the reference to the old sacerdotal habit of fiddling, at page 55.
Footnote_29
In his “Sonate Accademiche,”
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“I cannot understand how
Footnote_31
It was remarked, while he was in England, that his execution was astonishing, but that he dealt occasionally in such tricks as tended to excite the risible faculty, rather than the admiration, of his auditors.
Footnote_32
Voltaire’s contempt for
toi, dont le violon Sous un archêt maudit par Apollon D’un ton si dur a
Footnote_33
Michael Kelly, who heard this artist at Vienna, on his return from Russia, makes the following mention of him: —
Footnote_34
Apropos of this deficiency of English, I find an anecdote in the book of Parke, the oboist. He is describing the return from a dinner-party. – “When we arrived at Tottenham-court Road, there being several coaches on the stand, one was called for Jarnovicki, to convey him home; but, on its coming up, although he had been in London several years, he could not muster up English enough to name the street in which he lived; and, none of the party knowing his residence, it produced a dilemma, in which he participated, till, suddenly recollecting himself, he broke out singing,
Footnote_35
Parke, also, mentions the occurrence of this dispute, and the challenge – stating, as the occasion, that Shaw had refused to leave his proper station in the orchestra, to accompany Giornovichi.