American luthier
Subtitle: Carleen Hutchins, the art and science of the violin
By: Quincy Whitney
Publisher: ForeEdge; imusti
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 290
ISBN-13: 9781611685923; 9781611689273
Subjects: Violin makers; Biography
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Prelude. A piazza in Cremona; title: Exposition. Naturalist ; Teacher ; Intermezzo. Music : sound and sympathy; title: Retrograde. Violist ; Intermezzo. History : virtue, virtuosity, and strings ; Luthier ; Intermezzo. Anatomy : more than the sum of the parts; title: Stretto. Scientist ; Intermezzo. Science : the organ, polyphony, and the science of sound ; Apprentice ; Intermezzo. Acoustics : sound waves and sand  patterns; title: Pedal point. Musicmonger ; Intermezzo. Lutherie : a Spanish lute maker settles in Cremona; title: Augementation. Inventor ; Intermezzo. Consorts : da Vinci's dream ; Author; title: Sequence. Catalyst ; Intermezzo. Collections : the cabinet of curiosities ;  Editor ; Lecturer; title: Inversion. Fiddles and guitars : sympathetic strings; title: Fiddles in the conservatory : England, Wales, Scotland; title: Fiddles in the bakery : Sweden; title: Intermezzo. Innovation : virtuosos and inventors; title: Fiddles in the limelight : virtuosos on the vertical; title: Intermezzo. Market : "Messiah" as metaphor; title: Fiddles on exhibit : the Metropolitan Museum of Art; title: Fiddles in the palace : Russia; title: Fiddling with time : cabin fever; title: Fiddles live in concert : the Hutchins Consort; title: Coda. Fiddles on the marquee : returning to Ithaca; title: Finale. Counterpoint.