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The Viola d’Amore
This book provides the first scholarly history of the viola d’amore, a popular bowed string instrument of the Baroque era, with a unique tone produced by a set of metal sympathetic strings. Composers like Bach made use of the viola d’amore for its particular sound, but the instrument subsequently fell out of fashion amid orchestral standardisation, only to see a revival as interest in early music and historical performance grew. Drawing on literary accounts, iconography, and surviving instruments, this study examines the origins and development of this eye-catching string instrument in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It explores the rich variation of designs displayed in extant...
The Viola D'amore
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Concerto for Viola d'Amore
Expertly arranged concerto for viola and piano.
Vivaldi's Virgins LP
In this enthralling new novel, Barbara Quick re-creates eighteenth-century Venice at the height of its splendor and decadence. A story of longing and intrigue, half-told truths and toxic lies, Vivaldi's Virgins unfolds through the eyes of Anna Maria dal Violin, one of the elite musicians cloistered in the foundling home where Antonio Vivaldi—known as the Red Priest of Venice—is maestro and composer. Fourteen-year-old Anna Maria, abandoned at the Ospedale della Pietà as an infant, is determined to find out who she is and where she came from. Her quest takes her beyond the cloister walls into the complex tapestry of Venetian society; from the impoverished alleyways of the Jewish Ghetto to...
A Treatise on the Fundamental Principles of Violin Playing
Leopold Mozart's Treatise on the Fundamental Principles of Violin Playing was the major work of its period on the violin and comparable in importance to Quantz's treatise on the flute and P.E. Bach's on the piano. This translation by Editha Knocker was the first to appear in English and remains scholarly and eminently readable.
Stradivari
A highly illustrated biography and study of Stradivari, the greatest violin maker, including colour photographs of his most famous instruments.
Life After Death
New research throws light on the history of the viol after Purcell, including its revival in the late eighteenth century through Charles Frederick Abel.
The Viola Da Gamba
Music for division viol -- Technique -- The end of the Golden Age: amateurs and foreigners -- 5.3 France -- From five to six strings -- From 6 to 7 strings -- En famille -- The querelle -- The high school of the viol -- Playing technique -- Avec la basse? -- En compagnie -- Viol construction -- The decline: the pardessus de viole -- 5.4 The German Empire and the Netherlands -- Germania monstro simile -- The viol consort: "Sonderlich mit Violn de Gamba, In mangelung aber de Bracio -- The viol consort: instruments, tunings and measures -- The solo viol: the shaping of an idiom -- The 18th century -- Musical functions: the repertoire -- Instruments and lutherie after ca 1650 -- The final decades -- 6 The revival -- 6.1 Italy in the second half of the 18th century -- 6.2 The first half of the 19th century -- 6.3 The last decades of the 19th century -- 6.4 The 20th century -- 6.5 Today -- Glossary of technical, terms -- Bibliography -- Index
Music for Viola Bastarda
The term "viola bastarda" refers to both an instrument and a style of playing that is one of the crowning achievements of musical mannerism. The Italian repertory for the solo viola da gamba in the 16th and early 17th centuries was largely music played "alla bastarda," an art of performance in which a polyphonic composition is transformed into a single melodic line derived from the original parts and spanning their ranges. Jason Paras has traced the development of the "viola bastarda" and has assembled and transcribed 46 peices in this genre. The music in his collection is a rich and fascinating repertory that is rarely heard today. This anthology is an invitation to present-day players to recreate the improvisation practice of the 16th and 17th centuries in ways not fully disclosed by ornamentation manuals of that time.
