{"title":"Metamorphosis and the Taxonomy of Musical Instruments","authors":"Deirdre Loughridge","doi":"10.1080/01411896.2021.1949307","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"It’s the year 1740. The viol, recently favored instrument of the French aristocracy, has been losing admirers while the violin has been gaining them. As a viol enthusiast, you wish to make a persuasive argument for the continued cultivation and appreciation for viol playing. How do you make the case? The most obvious strategy would be to appeal to that oft-cited emblem of peak musicality: the voice. Marin Mersenne measured the viol against the voice in his Harmonie universelle (1636), finding favorably:","PeriodicalId":42616,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF MUSICOLOGICAL RESEARCH","volume":"70 1","pages":"279 - 288"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4000,"publicationDate":"2021-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"JOURNAL OF MUSICOLOGICAL RESEARCH","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01411896.2021.1949307","RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"MUSIC","Score":null,"Total":0}
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It’s the year 1740. The viol, recently favored instrument of the French aristocracy, has been losing admirers while the violin has been gaining them. As a viol enthusiast, you wish to make a persuasive argument for the continued cultivation and appreciation for viol playing. How do you make the case? The most obvious strategy would be to appeal to that oft-cited emblem of peak musicality: the voice. Marin Mersenne measured the viol against the voice in his Harmonie universelle (1636), finding favorably:
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The Journal of Musicological Research publishes original articles on all aspects of the discipline of music: historical musicology, style and repertory studies, music theory, ethnomusicology, music education, organology, and interdisciplinary studies. Because contemporary music scholarship addresses critical and analytical issues from a multiplicity of viewpoints, the Journal of Musicological Research seeks to present studies from all perspectives, using the full spectrum of methodologies. This variety makes the Journal a place where scholarly approaches can coexist, in all their harmony and occasional discord, and one that is not allied with any particular school or viewpoint.