Stringed instruments are included in Psalm 150 among those appropriate for music-making in praise of the Lord. For that reason, angels frequently appear in medieval and Renaissance art playing bowed and plucked instruments. The later association of the violin and the Devil is therefore a departure from the religious tradition. This paper traces the appearance of this notion in eastern European folklore, Shakespeare and his contemporaries, reactions to instrumental virtuosity in the Baroque period, Tartini's dream, and the career of Paganini, in whom the myth reached its apogee. Stringed instruments are included in Psalm 150 among those appropriate for music-making in praise of the Lord. For that reason, angels frequently appear in medieval and Renaissance art playing bowed and plucked instruments. The later association of the violin and the Devil is therefore a departure from the religious tradition. This paper traces the appearance of this notion in eastern European folklore, Shakespeare and his contemporaries, reactions to instrumental virtuosity in the Baroque period, Tartini's dream, and the career of Paganini, in whom the myth reached its apogee.
مجموعه
تاريخ نشر
2012
توصيف ظاهري
305-327
عنوان
Religion and the Arts
شماره جلد
16/4
شماره استاندارد بين المللي پياييندها
1568-5292
اصطلاحهای موضوعی کنترل نشده
اصطلاح موضوعی
fiddlestick
اصطلاح موضوعی
folklore
اصطلاح موضوعی
musical dream
اصطلاح موضوعی
Niccolò Paganini
اصطلاح موضوعی
popular religion
اصطلاح موضوعی
Psalm 150
اصطلاح موضوعی
Shakespeare
اصطلاح موضوعی
virtuosity
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