Traité de Lutherie
Subtitle: The Violin and the Art of Measurements
Publisher: ALADFI
Published: 2006
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
Table of contents: label: Contents; title: 11-14
label: Preface; title: 17-18
label: Introduction; label: PART I  MEASURE AND INSTRUMENT MAKING BEFORE THE 18th century; label: I-1 Preliminary remarks; title: 23-24
label: The role of resources in creation; label: I-2 Concepts connected with the notion of measurement; title: 25
label: 2.1 Unit and number; title: 25-26
label: Continuous and discrete quantity; title: 26-27
label: 2.2 What is a difference ratio and a measurement of magnitude?; title: 28
label: 2.3 Proportionality; title: 28-29
label: Means; title: 30
label: Arithmetic proportion; title: 30-31
label: Geometric proportion; title: 31
label: Harmonic proportion; title: 31-33
label: 2.4 Proportional sections; title: 34-37
label: 2.5 The symmetrical properties of proportional sections; label: I-3 The measurement of magnitudes in past recipes; title: 38-41
label: 3.1 Three examples of recipes from Vitruvius, Henri-Arnaut de Zwolle and Mathias Roriczer; title: 41
label: 3.2 The myth of the Golden Number; title: 42-43
label: 3.3 Proportional geometric drawings and their approximations by number; title: 43-45
label: 3.6 Approximations and the construction of sequences of converging ratios; label: The geometric progression; label: The harmonic progression; label: The subharmonic progression; title: 45-47
label: 3.7 The analogical principle and the substitution of measurements; label: I-4 Analysis of measurements in a 15th century technical drawing; title: 48-50
label: 4.1 Henri-Arnaut de Zwolle's lute; title: 50-52
label: 4.2 Drawing the outline: first proportional relations; title: 52-53
label: 4.3 How proportion generates measurements; title: 54-55
label: 4.4 The position of the soundhole; title: 56
label: 4.5 The relative nature of the plan; label: PART II  DESIGN AND OUTLINE OF THE FORMS OF THE VIOLIN FAMILY; title: 41
label: II-1 Preliminary remarks: The difficulties of analysing measurements; label: II-2 Antonio Stradivari's violin moulds; title: 62
label: 2.1 Relations between the main dimensions of the forms; title: 65-68
label: 2.2 Vertical relations; title: 68-72
label: 2.3 Horizontal relations; title: 72-73
label: 2.4 Height relations; title: 73-77
label: 2.5 The length of the neck, the position of the bridge, the length of the string; title: 77-79
label: 2.6 Relations between the three dimensions; label: II-3 The proportional archetypes of the violin family; title: 80-81
label: 3.1 The square and the organic conception of form; title: 81-83
label: 3.2 Definition and organisation of the surface; title: 84-86
label: 3.3 Analogical measurements and an archetypal division in Vitruvius; title: 86-100
label: 3.4 Some examples of frameworks; label: II-4 Drawing with a compass; title: 101-103
label: 4.1 Drawing curves and the principle of the section; title: 103-104
label: 4.2 Scotia and the reverse curve; title: 104-105
label: Drawing a scotia; title: 105-106
label: Drawing a reverse curve; title: 106-111
label: 4.3 Three problems and their solutions; title: 112-113
label: 4.4 The characteristics of violin curves; label: II-5 Seven models; title: 114-129
label: 5.1 Outline of a violin form by Andrea Amati; title: 130-138
label: 5.2 Andrea Amati violin outline: analysis and commentary; title: 139-147
label: 5.3 Form of a violin by the Amati brothers; title: 148-151
label: 5.4 Amati brothers outline: analysis and commentary; title: 152-161
label: 5.5 Form of an alto viola by Giacomo Gennaro; title: 162-171
label: 5.6 Form of an alto viola by Andrea Guarneri; title: 172-181
label: 5.7 Form of a tenor viola by Andrea Guarneri; title: 182-191
label: 5.8 Form of a cello by Joseph filius Andrea Guarneri; title: 192-202
label: 5.9 Form of a cello by Domenico Montagnana; label: PART III  Late-period applications of proportionality; title: 207-208
label: III-1 Preliminary remarks Of arms and legs; label: III-2 Stradivari's inheritance and particularities; title: 209-216
label: 2.1 Production of forms and changes in ways of taking measurements; title: 217-220
label: 2.2 The Turn of the Scroll; title: 221-223
label: 2.3 Stradivari's proportional principles for placing f-holes; title: 224-231
label: 2.4 How to draw Stradivari's forms; title: 232-233
label: 2.4.1 Mould MS 1 MB; title: 234-235
label: 2.4.2 Mould MS 2 S; title: 236-237
label: 2.4.3 Mould MS 28 SL; title: 238-239
label: 2.4.4 Mould MS 21 PG; title: 240-241
label: 2.4.5 Mould MS 49 G; title: 245-246
label: Conclusion; title: 249-251
label: Glossary; title: 252-253
label: List of subscribers; title: 254-255
label: Selected bibliography