Violin (Baroque, Classical)

[Video] Introducing the Baroque Violin - Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment

[Video] Meet the Orchestra: Baroque Violin - Irish Baroque Orchestra

[Video] Introducing the Piccolo Violin - Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment

[Video] The Baroque Violin and Bow - Netherlands Bach Society

[Video] The Baroque Violin and the Modern Violin: Similar, but Very Different - BaroqueBand

[Video] Introducing the Baroque Violin Bow - Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment

[Video] Holding the Baroque Violin, Part 1: Sources, Paintings, and Treatises - Irish Baroque Orchestra

[Video] Holding the Baroque Violin, Part 2: The Practical Aspect - Irish Baroque Orchestra

[Video] Interview with Rainier Guerrero Alvarez: Baroque Violin - Maisie Productions

The Anatomy of the Violin - Claire Givens Violins

The Anatomy of a Bow - Claire Givens Violins

Anatomy of a Violin - Darcy McGilvray. TheaterSeatStore.com (Generously recommended by the students of the Centerline Arts Group Children's Music Program)

The Baroque Violin – More Than Catgut Strings - Corilon Violins

Anatomy of the Violin - The Instrument Place

The Art of Playing on the Violin, Containing All the Rules Necessary to Attain to a Perfection on That Instrument, With Great Variety of Compositions, Which Will Also Be Very Useful to Those Who Study the Violoncello, Harpsichord, &c. - Francesco Geminiani. Self-published/London, 1751

[German] Versuch Einer Gründlichen Violinschule (Attempt at a Thorough Violin School) - Leopold Mozart. Johann Jacob Lotter/Augsburg, 1756

Louis Spohr’s Celebrated Violin School - Louis Spohr (translated by John Bishop). Robert Cocks & Co./London, 1843

Eichberg’s Complete Method for the Violin - Julius Eichberg. White, Smith & Co./Boston, 1876

Why All Chin-Rests Should Be Abolished - Arthur Hartmann. The Musical Times, Vol. 56, No. 864, pp. 105-106, 1915

Should Chin-Rests Be Abolished? - W. W. Cobbett. The Musical Times, Vol. 56, No. 866, pp. 223-224, 1915

The Social Condition of Violinists in France Before the Eighteenth Century - Marc Pincherle and Ottomar King. The Musical Quarterly, Vol. 8, No. 2, pp. 193-198, 1922

A Complaint of the Decay of the Violin Solos - Marion M. Scott. Music & Letters, Vol. 6, No. 4, pp. 330-343, 1925

The Creation of the Violin and its Consequences - Maurice Emmanuel and G. R. The Musical Quarterly, Vol. 23, No. 4, pp. 509-515, 1937

Violin Intonation in the 18th Century - J. Murray Barbour. Journal of the American Musicological Society, Vol. 5, No. 3, pp. 224-234, 1952

Traditional Fiddling - Marion Unger Thede. Ethnomusicology, Vol. 6, No. 1, pp. 19-24, 1962

Vedel and Geige – Fiddle and Viol: German String Traditions in the Fifteenth Century - Keith Polk. Journal of the American Musicological Society, Vol. 42, No. 3, pp. 504-546, 1989

The Violino Piccolo and Other Small Violins - Margaret Downie Banks. Early Music, Vol. 18, No. 4, pp. 588-596, 1990

Violin Intonation: A Historical Survey - Patrizio Barbieri and Sandra Mangsen. Early Music, Vol. 19, No. 1, pp. 69-88, 1991

[PDF] Violin Playing in Late Seventeenth-Century England: Baltzar, Matteis, and Purcell - Mary Cyr. Performance Practice Review, Vol. 8, No. 1, Article 5, 1995

[PDF] The Violin: A Research and Information Guide - Mark Katz. Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 2006

[PDF] Early Twentieth-Century Discourses of Violin Playing - Stefan Knapik. Magdalen College, Oxford, 2011

Traditions of Baroque Violin Playing - Divided Into Seven Parts - Richard Gwilt and Irmgard Schaller. Baroque-Violin.info, 2011

[PDF] Review: “Before the Chinrest: A Violinist’s Guide to the Mysteries of Pre-Chinrest Technique and Style” by Stanley Ritchie - Stewart Pollens. Performance Practice Review, Vol. 18, No. 1, Article 6, 2013

Unravelling the Influential Franco-Belgian Violin and Organ Schools: Part 1 - Guy Francis. Interlude, December 2017

[PDF] The Influence of Chinese Instruments on the Violin: A Practice Guide of Three Violin Techniques - Jie Gao, B.A, M.M. University of North Texas, 2017

A Timeline History of the Violin Bow – From c. 1600-1800: Timeline, Development, Technique, Traditions - Richard Gwilt, 2020

The Baroque Violin & Viola: A Fifty-Lesson Course, Vol. 1 - Walter S. Reiter. Oxford University Press, 2020

A Cultural History of the Violin in Nineteenth-Century London – From Instrument to Art - Tom Wilder. Boydell & Brewer, 2025