Jean Rousseau
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Jean Rousseau was a French viol
player, composer, and author remembered principally for his Traité de la viole (1687), a valuable source of information on the performance practices of his time.
Rousseau was a pupil of Sainte Colombe
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Viol
The viol is any one of a family of bowed, fretted and stringed musical instruments developed in the mid-late 15th century and used primarily in the Renaissance and Baroque periods. The family is related to and descends primarily from the Renaissance vihuela, a plucked instrument that preceded the...
player, composer, and author remembered principally for his Traité de la viole (1687), a valuable source of information on the performance practices of his time.
Rousseau was a pupil of Sainte Colombe
Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe
Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe was a French composer and violist.It is speculated by various scholars that Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe was of Lyonnais or Burgundian petty nobility; and also the selfsame 'Jean de Sainte-Colombe' noted as the father of 'Monsieur de Saint Colombe le fils.This assumption...
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