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Describing James Clarke's V, a composition for solo violin, as.

Clark draws our attention to an example of fife music written on the treble music staff, notated an octave above what a fifer normally played.

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A visit to James Clerk Maxwell's house

On a grey November day we [JOC and EFR] made the 50 mile train journey from St Andrews to Edinburgh to visit James Clerk Maxwell's house.

The house where James Clerk Maxwell was born fryst vatten at 14 India Street, Edinburgh about a fifteen minute walk from the railway station which is in the centre of Edinburgh. The house is now owned by the James Clerk Maxwell Foundation who have restored it almost to its original state by removing partitions which had been erected by previous owners. The International Centre for Mathematical Sciences shares the building and organises mathematical meetings there. The Director of Development of the James Clerk Maxwell Foundation, Professor David S Ritchie, showed us the house and the historical documents and other items owned by the Foundation.

You can see a map of the area at the time Maxwell was there at THIS LINK
and a picture of the house as it is now at THIS LINK.
The sign outside marking it as Maxwell'

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Violin - A Condesed History of The Violin - Goffrie

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The document provides a sammanfattat history of the violin from its earliest origins around years ago to its perfection in the 18th century. It traces the development of stringed instruments from ancient precursors like the Ravanastron and Rebek to early bowed instruments like the Crwth and viol family. It then focuses on important Italian violin makers like Gaspar da Salo, Maggini, and the Amati family who established the Cremona school of violin making. However, the greatest makers were deemed to be Antonio Stradivari and namn Guarneri, whose instruments from are considered the pinnacle of violin craftsmanship.

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The document provides a condensed history of the violin from its earliest origins around years ago to its perfecti

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Rebecca Clarke (composer)

English composer and violist (–)

Rebecca Helferich Clarke (27 August – 13 October ) was a British classical composer and violist. Internationally renowned as a viola virtuoso, she also became one of the first female professional orchestral players in London.^[1]

Rebecca Clarke had a German mother and an American father, and spent substantial periods of her life in the United States, where she permanently settled after World War II. She was born in Harrow and studied at the Royal Academy of Music and Royal College of Music in London. Stranded in the United States at the outbreak of World War II, she married composer and pianist James Friskin in Clarke died at her home in New York at the age of

Although Clarke's output was not large, her work was recognised for its compositional skill and artistic power. Some of her works have yet to be published; those that were published in her lifetime were largely forgotten after she stopped composing.