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1751-2006 LIST OF PUBLICATIONS

YEAR:  Title - Author (source / code)

HORN VIOLIN

1902:  The Stroh Violin - D. Donovan (The Strand Magazine / Vol.23)
1975:  Fiddles With Horns - Julian Pilling (The Galpin Society / April #28)
199?:  Trumpet Violin - Ferdinand Hell/Hill? (The Strad / ?)



ELECTRIC VIOLIN

1927:  The Giant-Tone Radio Violin - R.F. Starzl (Radio News / Vol.8 No.10 April, 1927)
1930:  The Electric Violin - F.H. & V. (L'Illustration / April-12)
1933:  And Now The Electric Violin - Editor in Chief Hugo Gernsbeck (Radio Craft Magazine / August, Volume V, Number 2, page 85)
1933:  Electric Violin Has No Sounding Board - A Fawcett Publication? (Modern Mechanix and Inventions / August)
1936:  Brother Musician Listen to a Miracle - ? ? (Electro String Instrument Corporation / ?)
1936:  The Radio Times Music Handbook - Percy A. Scholes (Oxford University Press / 3rd edition)
1938:  Quake Inspired Violin Invention; Tone Said to Astound Musicians - ? ? (The New York Times / Jun-13)
1939:  An Experimental Electronic Violin - L H Stauffer (Journal of Allied Physics / Volume 10, Feb)
1939:  Vega Electric Instruments - ? ? (Vega Catalogue / #33 14B?)
1940:  Violectric - The Perfect Violin - ? ? (National Catalogue / ?)
1943:  Fiddle Without a Body - ? ? (The New York Times / Feb-14)
1945:  The Oxford Companion to Music - Percy A. Scholes (Oxford University Press / 6th edition)
1946:  Electrical Impulse - ? ? (Time Magazine / Jul-15)
1946:  Electro Cello Scheduled for Introduction - ? ? (Los Angeles Times / Jul-07)
1947:  Electric Orchestra - Vera & Henry Bradshaw (Popular Mechanics / June)
1972:  An Electronic Violin - J Kohut and M V Mathews (The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America / July, Volume 52 Issue 1A)
1973:  A Case for and Electronically Adjusted ("Electric") Violin - Dr. Eugene Gratovich (The Strad / July, No. 999, Vol. 84)
1973:  Concerto for Amplified Violin - ? Wuorinen (Music Trades / Issue 121, pages 45-6)
1973:  Electronic Simulation of Violin Resonances - M V Mathews and J Kohut (The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America / June 1973, Volume 53 Issue 6)
1975:  Guitar Book - Tom Wheeler (Macdonald / ISBN 0356083225)
1975:  Sound check - the violin revolution - ? ? (Melody Maker / 50, page 21?)
1976:  Musical Instruments of the World: An Illustrated Encyclopedia - Diagram Group (Facts on File Inc / ISBN 0871963205)
1976:  Sound check - all strung out - ? ? (Melody Maker / 51, page 29?)
1977:  World's oldest, rarest electronic violin - ? ? (School Musician / Issue 48, page 22)
1978:  Rock and Violin - ? ? (Music Journal / Issue 36, pages 6-10)
1979:  Lustrum - Emmanuel Ghent (Persimmon Press / ?)
1981:  World of Romantic and Modern Musical Instruments - Jeremy Montagu (David & Charles (publ) / Manchester Public Library (781.9Ms59))
1982:  An Electronic Violin with a Singing Formant - M V Mathews (The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America / April, Volume 71 Issue S1)
1984:  The Extended Family - Electronic Bowed String Instruments - David Neubert (American String Teacher Magazine / Winter)
1986:  Electronic Violin: a research tool - Max Matthews (Journal of the Violin Society of America / vol.8/1, pages 70-88)
1986:  Towards a New Age of Performance: Reading the Book of Dreams with the Mathews Electronic Violin - Richard Boulanger (Perspectives of New Music / Spring/Summer, Vol. 24 No.2)
1990:  Performance of Music with an Electronic Violin - Janos Negyesy and Lee Ray (The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America / November, Volume 88 Issue S1)
1991:  Electric Violin - Alexander Markov and James Remington (The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America / July, Volume 90 Issue1)
1994:  Electric Violin with Multiple Registration Points - Robert D Henderson (The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America / February, Volume 95 Issue 2)
1994:  The Fender Inside Story - Forrest White (Miller Freeman Books / ISBN 0879303093)
1995:  Current Affairs - Joanna Pieters (The Strad / September)
1995:  Electronic instruments - Terminology and Techniques - Hugh Davies (Grove Encyclopedia of Musical Instruments / ?)
1995:  Fender - The Sound Heard 'Round the World - Richard R. Smith (Hal Leonard / ISBN 0634058754)
1995:  Stingray Violins - Tom Leary (Musician / September)
1998:  Electric Violins - the electric violin book - Hanno Graesser (Bochinsky / ISBN 3923639325)
1998:  Electrifying Violins - Andy Holliman (Traditional Music Maker / ?)
1998:  Traditional Music Maker - Andy Holliman (Healey & Faulkner / Issue No.10)
1999:  Gruhn's Guide to Vintage Guitars - George Gruhn (Backbeat Books / ISBN 0879304227)
2000:  50 Years of Fender - Tony Bacon (Miller Freeman Books / ISBN 0879306211)
2000:  Birth of the Electric Viola - Bianca Soros (Strings / May-June 2000 Volume XIV, Number 8, Issue 86)
2000:  Angel Voices - Ken Smith (The Strad / November)
2000:  Experience Music Project: An interactive Museum of American Popular Music - Editor William E. Hettrick (American Musical Instrument Society Newsletter / Vol.29 No.3)
2000:  Mellow Cello - ? ? (Electronics Times / #989)
2003:  The Vbow - An Expressive Musical Controller Haptic Human-Computer Interface - Charles Sabin Nichols II (Stanford University - Department of Music / August)
2004:  Departmental Accessions - Musical Instruments - ? ? (Metropolitan Museum of Art / 2003-2004)
2004:  Entrepreneur Tunes Up His Business - ? ? (Technological Research and Development Authority - Outreach Program News / ?)
2004:  Virtual Musical instrument - Le SuperPolm - ? ? (Proceedings of the 2004 Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression / NIME04)
2005:  The Overtone Violin - Dan Overholt (New Interfaces for Musical Expression / NIME05)
19??:  The Shock of the New - Marilyn Emerson (? / pg 698-700)



THE VIOLIN

1854:  The Violin - George Dubourg (Robert Cocks & Co / ?)
1885:  Violin Making -As it was and is - Ed. Heron-Allen (Ward Lock Ltd. / ISBN 706310454)
1900:  An Historical Sketch of the Violin and its master makers -  R.R. and Sons Co. (printed for Lyon & Healy) Donnelley (Lakeside Press / Manchester Public Library)
1902:  Antonio Stradivari  His Life and Work - William Hill & Sons (Dover Publications / ISBN 486204251)
1905:  The Violin - William Henley (The Strad / #13)
1948:  Treatise on Instrumentation - Hector Berlioz & Strauss (Dover Publications / ISBN 0486269035)
1950:  Violins & Violinists - Franz Farga (Rockliff Publishing Corporation Ltd / ?)
1965:  An Encyclopedia of the Violin - Alberto Bachmann (Da Capo Press / ISBN 306800047)
1967:  The Violin - Theodore Rowland Entwistle (Dover Publications / ISBN 340059923)
1981:  Jazz Violin - Matt Glaser & Grappelli (Oak Publications / ISBN 0825601940)
1984:  Book of the Violin - Dominic Gill (Phaidon Press Ltd. / ISBN 0714822868)
1984:  Physics of the Violin - Lothar Cremer (The MIT Press / ISBN 0262031027)
1984:  The New Violin - Linda Smith (Music Works / vol.28, pages 3-5)
1985:  Violin Technique and Performance Practice in the Late 18th and Early 19th Centuries - Robin Stowell (Cambridge University Press / ISBN 521232791)
1985:  Viols, Violins and Virginals - Jennifer A. Charlton (Ashmolean Museum / ISBN 090784944X )
1989:  Music for Solo Violin Unaccompanied - A catalogue - Harry Edlund (Peter Marcan Publications / ISBN 2080136232)
1992:  The Violin Explained  Components Mechanism and Sound - James Beament (Clarendon Press / ISBN 198166230)
1992:  Violin - Edited Robin Stowell (Cambridge University Press / ISBN 521390238)
1996:  The Violin - Yehudi Menuhin (Flammarion / ISBN 2080136232)
1999:  Reinventing the Violin - Daniel Trueman (Daniel Trueman / ?)
2001:  The Early Violin and Viola - Robin Stowell (Cambridge University Press / ISBN 521625556)
2003:  Violin  An Easy Guide - Chris Coetzee (New Holland Publishers / ISBN 1843303329)
19??:  Bluegrass Fiddle Styles - ? ? (Mel Bay Publications Inc / ?)
19??:  Something New - Dennis Rooney (The Strad? / ?)




VIOLIN PLAYERS

1880:  Biographical Notice of Nicolo Paganini - F.J. Fetis (Schott & Co.  / ?)
1953:  Joe Venuti and his Blue Violin - James Baxter, inspired by Robert White (Privately published, Philadelphia? / ?)
1953:  Paganini - Renee de Saussine (Hutchinson & Co Ltd / ?)
1957:  Paganini  The Genoese - G.I.C. de Courcy (University of Oklahoma Press  / ?)
1959:  The Jazz Scene - Francis Newton (Macgibbon & Kee / Jazz book Club 26)
1968:  Tartini  His Life and Times - Prof. Dr. Lev Ginsburg (Paganiniana Publications Inc / ISBN 876665903)
1969:  Szigeto on the Violin - Joseph Szigeti (Dover Publications / ISBN 048623763X)
1976:  Unfinished Journey - Yehudi Menuhin (Macdonald and Jane's / ISBN 354041460)
1979:  Paganini - Leslie Sheppard & Axelrod (Paganiniana Publications Inc / ISBN 876666187)
1980:  Paganini  His Life and Times - John Sugden (Paganiniana Publications Inc / ISBN 087666642X)
1980:  The Great Violinists - Margaret Campbell (Robson Books / ISBN 1861056230)
1980:  Ysa? Prof. Dr. Lev Ginsburg (Paganiniana Publications Inc / ISBN 876666209)
1982:  Paganini  A Biography - Alan Kendall (Chappell & Company Ltd / ISBN 241108454)
1982:  Virtuoso  The LIfe and art of... - Harvey Sachs (Thames & Hudson / ISBN 500012865)
1991:  Pure at Heart - Anthony Barnett (Allardyce, Barnett Publishers / ISBN 907954154)
1993:  Fable Bulletin Violin Improvisation Studies - Edited Anthony Barnett (Allardyce, Barnett Publishers / ISBN 0907954456)
1993:  Fuzz Acid and Flowers - A Comprehensive Guide to American Garage Psychedelic and Hippie Rock (1964-1975) - Vernon Joynson (Borderline Productions / ISBN 1899855068)
1994:  Psychedelic Psounds - Interviews from A to Z with 60s Psychedelic and Garage Bands - Allan Vorda (Borderline Productions / ISBN 0951287591)
1995:  Desert Sands / Up Jumped The Devil - Anthony Barnett (Allardyce, Barnett Publishers / ISBN 0907954251)
1995:  Tapestry of Delights, The - The comprehensive guide to British music of the Beat, R&B, Psychedelic and Progressive eras 1963-1976 - Vernon Joynson (Borderline Productions / ISBN 1899855009)
1996:  Violin sans Frontieres - Joanna Pieters (The Strad / October)
1997:  The Devil's Box  Masters of Southern Fiddling - Charles Wolfe (Country Music Foundation Press / ISBN 826513247)
1998:  Tony Conrad - Fiddler on the Hoof - Richard Henderson (The Wire / Issue 170)
1998:  Up Jumped The Devil - Anthony Barnett (Allardyce, Barnett Publishers / Supplement only available with Desert Sands)
1999:  Black Gypsy - Anthony Barnett (Allardyce, Barnett Publishers / ISBN 090795426X)
2000:  Japanese Independent Music - Frank  Stofer (Sonore / ISBN 2951564406)
2001:  John Cale - Inside the Dream Syndicate - Edwin Pouncey (The Wire / Issue 206)
2001:  Up Yours! A Guide to UK Punk, New Wave and early post Punk - Vernon Joynson (Borderline Productions / ISBN 1899855130)
2002:  Pure at Heart 2 Anecdotes & Interviews - Edited Anthony Barnett (Allardyce, Barnett Publishers / ISBN 0907954340)
2002:  The Dark Reign of Gothic Rock - Dave Thompson (Helter Skelter Publishing / ISBN 190092448X)
2005:  Joe Venuti - Never Before? Never Again - Edited Richard Niles Romano (Mel Bay Publications Inc / ISBN 0786641312)




VIOLIN TECHNIQUE

1751:  The Art of Playing on the Violin - Francesco Geminiani (Musica Repartita / Op.9)
1756:  A Treatise on the Fundamental Principles of Violin Playing - Leopold Mozart (Oxford University Press / O/XP3602?)
1771:  An Easy method of producing on the violin the harmonic sounds in all the major and minor keys - Joseph Barnabe Saint-Sevin Abbe (Junior) (R.Cocks & Co. (publishers) / Manchester Public Library (Rs811 Ac72))
1797:  A Complete Treatise on Harmonics for the Violin - Bartolommeo Campagnoli (? / Manchester Public Library (s811 Cc81))
1829:  The Art of Paganin's Violin Playing - Carl Guhr (Novello / ?)
1832:  Spohr's Violin School - Louis Spohr rev. & ed. Holmes (Boosey & Co / ?)
1835:  The Art of the Violin - Pierre M.F de Sales Baillot (Northwestern University Press / ISBN 0810107546)
1901:  School of Violin Technique - Otakar Sevcik (Bosworth & Co. Ltd / BoE 3529)
1904:  Neue Methode des Flageolettspiels - Paolo Felis (Steingraber - Verlag / Manchester Public Library)
1911:  Basic Studies - Carl Flesch (Carl Fischer Inc / O205)
1921:  The Artist's Technique of Violin Playing - D.C. Dounis (Carl Fischer Inc / ISBN 0825801478)
1921:  Violin Playing  As I Teach it - Leopold Auer (Gerarld Duckworth & Co Ltd.  / ?)
1924:  Scale System - Carl Flesch (Carl Fischer Inc / ISBN 0825801788)
1924:  The Art of Violin Playing - Carl Flesch (Carl Fischer / ISBN 0825801354)
1924:  The Art of Violin Playing - Daniel Melsa (Foulsham & Co. Ltd / ?)
1924:  Violin Harmonics - what they are and how to play them - C.E. Jacomb (The Strad (No.25) / ISBN 0825801362)
1925:  Harmonics in Theory and Practice for the violin - Rebecca Wilder Holmes (Carl Fischer American Academic Series No.30 / Manchester Public Library (811 Hs45))
1925:  Theory of Harmonics - Henryk Heller (N. Simrock / Nr. 729a-g)
1931:  Problems of Tone Production - Carl Flesch (Carl Fischer Inc / O2358)
1934:  Tecnica dei Suoni Armonici per Violino - Michelangelo Abbado (G.Ricordi & Co. Milano / E.R.1621-1625)
1948? Violin Harmonics and the Pizzicato - Ferdinand David (Carl Fischer's Music Library / No.462)
1953:  Violin Technique - Notes for players and teachers - Andre Mangeot (Dennis Dobson Ltd. / 50959G)
1962:  Principles of Violin Playing - Ivan Galamian (Prentice-Hall Inc / LCCC 6214019)
1964:  Senso-Motor Study and its Application to Violin Playing - Dr. Frederick F. Polnauer & Marks (American String Teachers Association / 2nd edition)
1968:  The Violin and I - Kato Havas (Bosworth & Co. Ltd / ?)
1971:  System of Harmonics - Recised & Edited Adam Heller (N. Simrock / Nr. 3142)
1977:  All-Interval Scale Book Including a Chart of Harmonics for the Violin - Paul Zukovsky (G. Schirmer / A-1185a)
1985:  The Violin - Harmonics: Classification and New Techniques - Enzo Porta (Ricordi / E.R.2848)
1986:  Life Class - Yehudi Menuhin (William Heinemann / ISBN 0434463000)
1988:  Left-Hand Violin Technique - Ruggiero Ricci (G. Schirmer / Ed. 3557)
1996:  The Secret Life of the Cello Strings: Harmonics for Cellists - R.Caroline Bosanquet (SJ Music / ISBN 095282020X)
2001:  The Contemporary Violin: Extended Performance Techniques - Patricia & Allen Strange (University of California Press / ISBN 520224094)
2004:  Ring Tones - Laura Reed (The Strad / October)




OTHER, GENERAL

1771:  Principles and Power of Harmony - Giuseppe Tartini trans. Stillingfleet (J. & H. Hughs / ?)
1906:  The Romance of Modern Electricity - Charles R. Gibson (Seeley & Co Ltd / ?)
1909:  Story of the Electric Organ - J.W. Hinton (Bardon Enterprises / ISBN 0952818434)
1910:  The Electric Violin Player - Walter C Beecher (Modern Electrics, Publication / July)
1925:  On Music, Our Musical Future, The New Generation - Thomas Edison (The Diary / ?)
1933:  The British Encyclopedia - J.M. Parrish, Crossland & Pappoport (Oldhams Press Ltd / ?)
1937:  Science and Music - Sir James Jeans (Dover Publications / ISBN 0486619648)
1942:  The Music Goes Round - F.W. Gaisberg (Macmillan Company / Manchester Public Library (789.75GB45))
1950:  Music - its Story and Enjoyment - Editor Lord Gorell (New Educational Library / ?)
1954:  The World of Music - Edited K.B. Sandved (The Waverley Book Company / ?)
1956:  Joe Batten's Book - Joe Battern (Rockliff Publishing Corporation Ltd / ?)
1959:  Collins Encyclopedia of Music - Sir Jack Westrup & Harrison (Chancellor Press / ISBN 0907486495)
1963:  An Anthology - La Monte Young (La Monte Young / LCCC 6717544)
1963:  The Language of Modern Music - Donald Mitchell (Faber & faber / ISBN 0571049346)
1968:  The Philips Tape Recording Book - Frederick Purves (The Focal Press / ISBN 240449592)
1977:  Veteran Talking Machines - the Phonautograph - Brian Jewell (Midas Books / ?)
1979:  Performance Art - Rose Lee Goldberg (Thames & Hudson / ISBN 0500202141)
1980:  American Minimal Music - Wim  Mertens (Kahn Averill / ISBN 1871082005)
1982:  The Incredible Music Machine - Russell Miller (Quartet Books Ltd / ISBN 0704323249)
1983:  Industrial Culture Handbook - V. Vale & Juno (Re/Search Publications / ISBN 0940642077)
1985:  Noise - The Political Economy of Music - Jacques Attali (University of Minnesota Press / ISBN 0816612870)
1986:  The Art of Noises - Luigi Russolo (Pendragon Press / ISBN 0918728576)
1987:  Edison, Musicians, and the Phonograph - John & Susan Harvith & Harvith (Greenwood Press / ISBN 0313253935)
1987:  The Recording Angel - Evan Eisenberg (Yale University Press / ISBN 0300099045)
1988:  Revolutions in Sound - Dr. Christopher H. Roads (The British Library / ?)
1989:  Stockhausen on Music - Karlheinz Stockhausen (Marion Boyars / ISBN 0714528870)
1990:  New Sounds - the Virgin Guide to New Music - John Schaefer (W.H. Allen & Co Plc / ISBN 0060970812)
1992:  Healing Sounds - The Power of Harmonics - Jonathan Goldman (Healing Arts Press / ISBN 0892819936)
1992:  Stockhausen - A Biography - Michael Kurtz (Faber & faber / ISBN 057117146X)
1993:  The Harmony of the Spheres - Joscelyn Godwin (Inner Traditions International / ISBN 0892812656)
1993:  The Music of the Spheres - Jamie James (Abacus / ISBN 0349105421)
1996:  Telegraphic Repeating Instrument - ? ? (Microsoft Encarta / ?)
1997:  EMI the first 100 years - Peter Martland (B.T. Batsford Ltd / ISBN 0713462078)
1997:  Music of the Whole Earth - David Reck (Da Capo Press / ISBN 0306807491)
1998:  Figuring the fiddles - Jennifer Paterson (Music Teacher / ?)
1998:  Noise Pollution - History of the Loudspeaker - Barry Blake-Coleman (Inventors World / ?)
2001:  History of Great Inventions - James Dyson (Constable & Robinson Ltd / ISBN 1841196177)
2003:  The Cable - The Wire That Changed The World - Gillian Cookson (Tempus Publishing / ISBN 0752423665)
2005:  Electric Universe - David Bodans (Little, Brown / ISBN 0316861820)

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