Is it a hoax? A surrealist joke? A misunderstood artistic statement? The rarefied world of independent publishers was buzzing with these questions yesterday after a new book about the ancient musical ...

These works appear on the CD The Art of Funerary Violin. All pieces are performed by the Guild of Funerary Violinists under the direction of Rohan Kriwaczek, except where noted. (These are the credits ...

The art of funerary violin, although little known today, emerged during the Protestant Reformation and for almost 300 years was an integral part of European interment ceremonies. The Protestant ...

In the sometimes highly strung world of the classical violin, they were today trying to get to grips with the fiddling of Rohan Kriwaczek. A busker, violinist, clarinetist, flautist and bagpipe player ...

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Although largely forgotten in the last 150 years, Funerary Violin was for two and a half centuries central to funerary ritual throughout England and much of Europe. Recent scholarly interest in the ...

Inspired by the imagined death of the real-life (and living) Amanda Palmer, the front woman for the self-described "Brechtian punk cabaret" band, The Dresden Dolls, Kriwaczek (An Incomplete History of ...