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Tradition and Innovation in American Violin Making.

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正題名/作者:	Tradition and Innovation in American Violin Making./
作者:	Pickett, Sarah Gilbert.
出版者:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2021,
面頁冊數:	208 p.
附註:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 83-01, Section: B.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International83-01B.
標題:	Music. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=28320843
ISBN:	9798516064166

Tradition and Innovation in American Violin Making.
Pickett, Sarah Gilbert.

Tradition and Innovation in American Violin Making. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2021 - 208 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 83-01, Section: B.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 2021.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

This dissertation takes an organological, historical, and ethnographic approach to the study of innovative violin making in the twenty-first century. The violin is a long-established icon as well as a tool for the production of sound, and consequently, attempts to alter its traditional form have been largely dismissed. While many makers have produced innovative violin models, the instrument has retained its basic form since its invention nearly five centuries ago. The search for a modern violin form based in scientific ideals was reignited in the mid-twentieth century, however, as scientists and musicians continued to work toward the construction of modernized forms employing the latest technology and acoustical research. Through interviews with innovative violin and bow makers, and organological studies of their instruments, this study explores the musical, financial, technological, and environmental reasons that these modern luthiers are challenging long-held traditions.This study explores the tensions between historicism and experimentation in a conservative field, raising issues of prestige structures and status symbols, real versus symbolic capital, and the arbitrariness of cultural values. The significance of musical instruments lies not merely in their existence as static artifacts but in the complex relationships that exist among the instruments, musicians, and societies. In considering both traditional and innovative instruments, an ethnographic study of living luthiers complements the study of the sociohistorical context of past makers and their instruments, allowing for an examination of the continued tensions of traditionalism, innovation, and ecological concerns in violin making across time. Musical instruments are often seen as being ancillary, rather than a crucial component, in the development of musical styles. In acting as an extension of the human performer, however, the instrument can be manipulated to expand and enrich sonic capabilities, thereby participating in the creation of musical culture. While I do not argue that instruments can be active agents in this process, because they require human mediation, they can certainly modify the ways in which one conceptualizes and produces music.While most keyboard and wind instruments have undergone significant modifications since their inventions in order to adapt to changing repertoire, new technology, and larger performance spaces, the instruments of the violin family have remained largely unchanged since the transition from the Baroque to the standardized form universally used today, when the neck and fingerboard were slightly elongated and steel strings were introduced. Attempts to improve or alter the structure of the violin have often been rejected by both performers and luthiers, who have long held sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Cremonese instruments as the ideal form. During the Industrial Revolution in the nineteenth century many European luthiers created experimental violin models in attempts to improve the instrument's acoustics and to employ production methods using newly available technology. While many of these new violins were praised by musicians, composers, and acousticians for their quality of sound, playability, and ease of production, these innovative instruments of the nineteenth century all eventually fell out of use, becoming novelties in museums and auction houses rather than fixtures in concert halls. In this dissertation I explore the mythology surrounding the violin, especially its early history in Cremona, research innovation and experimentation in modern violin making, cover the history of American violin making along with my own experience in the field, and interview American makers who are currently working to innovate and modernize the craft to adapt to the twenty-first century.

ISBN: 9798516064166Subjects--Topical Terms:

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Music.
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Ecomusicology

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