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1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. List of Illustrations ix
4. Preface xi
5. Acknowledgments xvii
6. Part One: An Instrument or a Metaphor?
7. 1 Associations with Death and the Devil 1
8. 2 Violinists and Violins in Literature 36
9. Part Two: Across the Centuries
10. 3 The Violin in Italy during the Baroque Period 63
11. 4 Bach and the Violin 95
12. 5 Mozart, Beethoven, and the Violin 123
13. 6 The Violin Concerto and Virtuosity in the Nineteenth Century 157
14. 7 The Violin Concerto in the Twentieth Century 186
15. 8 The Masters’ Voice: Recordings as Documentation of Performance Practice 214
16. Part Three: Across the Continents
17. 9 The Peripatetic Violin 241
18. 10 The Devil’s Box No More: Fiddling in America 266
19. List of Contributors 291
20. Index 293