Vielle
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The vielle
The instrument was also known as a fidel or a viuola, although the French name for the instrument, vielle, is generally used; the word comes from the same root as sculptures and paintings.
Starting in the middle or end of the 15th century, the word vielle was used to refer to the hurdy-gurdy, as a shortened form of its name: vielle à roue ("vielle with a wheel").[4]
Several modern groups of musicians have formed into bands to play
Gallery
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Image cropped from the Cantigas de Santa Maria (codex MS T.I. 1). Two vielles (left) and a citole. Spain, c. 1280.
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Vielle or fiddle from c. 1310,
Ormesby Psalter, Bodleian Library -
Vielle from the Codex Manesse, UB Heidelberg, c. 1305-1315.
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Modern build of a viella from Spain. Based on a sculpture instrument at the Mirta Caviello del Portico de la Gloria de Santiago de Compostela.
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Reinmar the fiddler, from the Codex Manesse.
Germany, c. 1305-1315. -
Player of a three-string vielle. Image in margin of Peterborough Psalter.
Early 14th Century. -
Half-man, half-beast playing a three-string vielle left-handed. Image in margin of the Hours of Charles the Noble.
Early 15th Century.
References
- ^ public domain: Schlesinger, Kathleen (1911). "Vielle". In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 28 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 50. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the
- ^ "fiddle," Encyclopædia Britannica, from Encyclopædia Britannica Online: http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/206069/fiddle (retrieved March 06, 2009)
- ^ (in French) Roi David jouant de la vièle en huit
- ^ Schlesinger 1911.
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