Cremonal (kremona)

[For Cremona violin: see def.] Any violin made at Cremona, Italy, by the Amati family, in the latter part of the sixteenth and in the seventeenth century, and by Strad i var i us at the beginning of the eighteenth century. These instruments are considered to excel all others, and are highly prized. The name is often improperly applied to any old Italian violin. cremona (krē-mō'nä), n. [Corruption (in imitation of Cremonal ) of cromorna, F. cromorne, itself a corruption of G. krummhorn: seekrumm horn.] Same as cromorna. Cremonese (kre-mō-nēs' or -nēz'), a. and n. [ The term "a Cremona," or "a Cremonese violin," is often incorrectly used for an old Italian instrument of any make. Grove, Dict. Music, I. 416. II. n. sing. and pl . A native or natives of Cremona. At the beginning of the thirteenth century the Mantuans had repulsed the Cremonese. C. C. Perkins, Italian Sculpture, Int., p. xxvii. Crem on i an (krē-mō'ni-an), a. Pertaining to the Italian geometer Luigi Cremona. - Crem on i an congruency. See congruency. Crem on i an correspondence, a one-to-one correspondence of the points in two planes, such that to every straight line in either plane there corresponds a conic in the other. There are three Crem on i an foci in each plane, where all the conics in that plane corresponding to right lines in the other intersect.