chapter 1 Observations on the Origin of Violins and Cellos

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. foreword Th e Adventures of a Cello and the Stories and Memories of Its Happy Owner ix
4. Contributors ix
5. Acknowledgments xi
6. introduction Th e Origin and Purpose of Th is Book xiii
7. part one A Brief History of Violin Making
8. chapter 1 Observations on the Origin of Violins and Cellos 3
9. chapter 2 Amati, Stradivari, Guarneri del Gesù, and the Great Italian Violin Makers 16
10. part two The Adventures of a Stradivari Cello from 1720 to the Present
11. chapter 3 Th e Adventures of a Stradivari Cello: From Cremona in 1720 to New York in 1979 39
12. chapter 4 A Brief Autobiographical Note 76
13. chapter 5 Around the World with the Piatti 90
14. chapter 6 My Relationship with the Music and Musicians of Latin America, Spain, and Portugal 147
15. part three A Brief History of Music for the Cello from the Time of Stradivari to the Present
16. chapter 7 Th e Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries 221
17. Chapter 8 From Beethoven to the End of the Nineteenth Century 231
18. Chapter 9 The Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries: The Cello Comes of Age 243
19. Epilogue 285
20. Appendix 1 Some Principal Works for Cello from the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries (Excluding Ibero-America) 303
21. Appendix 2 Some Principal Works for Cello from the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries (Spain, Portugal, and Latin America) 314
22. Appendix 3 Carlos Prieto’s Discography 329
23. Appendix 4 Reviews of Concerts 333
24. Notes 336
25. Bibliography 345
26. Index 350