{"id":404,"date":"2006-10-04T16:38:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-04T16:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/wordpress\/?p=404"},"modified":"2010-01-09T16:37:50","modified_gmt":"2010-01-09T16:37:50","slug":"filler-by-proxy-xl-an-incomplete-history-of-the-art-of-the-funerary-violin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/2006\/10\/filler-by-proxy-xl-an-incomplete-history-of-the-art-of-the-funerary-violin.html","title":{"rendered":"Filler by Proxy XL: An Incomplete History of the Art of the Funerary Violin"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">For those of you with a love of the funerary violin, that obscure genre of music rendered almost extinct after it was condemned by the Catholic church in the 1830s, you will be glad to learn that Rohan Kriwaczek&#8217;s brand new book <a style=\"font-style: italic;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.duckw.com\/general\/title.php?titleissue_id=327\">An Incomplete History of the Art of the Funerary Violin<\/a> is now available on sale from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0715636049\/ref=duckworth\">Amazon<\/a> (UK site only).  Fittingly, Kriwaczek&#8217;s book is published by Duckworth, purveyors of the poetic <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">oeuvre <\/span>of <a href=\"http:\/\/cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/2006\/08\/au-tombeau-de-william-mcgonagall.html\">William McGonagall<\/a>.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">If you don&#8217;t care much about funerary violin music but have a grudge against Pius X for his 1903  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adoremus.org\/MotuProprio.html\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">motu proprio<\/span><\/a> on sacred music, this book may also be up your alley.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">New York Times<\/span> gives <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/10\/04\/books\/04viol.html\">a little more information about the book<\/a> and the mysterious Guild of Funerary Violinists (you may need <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bugmenot.com\/\">Bugmenot<\/a> to get past registration). <\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Strangely, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rainerlinz.net\/rosenberg-archive\/index.html\">The Rosenberg Archive<\/a> has been silent about this guild.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those of you with a love of the funerary violin, that obscure genre of music rendered almost extinct after it was condemned by the Catholic church in the 1830s, you will be glad to learn that Rohan Kriwaczek&#8217;s brand new book An Incomplete History of the Art of the Funerary Violin is now available [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,7,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=404"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3392,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404\/revisions\/3392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}