The Viola D'Amore

The Viola D'Amore
Title The Viola D'Amore PDF eBook
Author Rachael Durkin
Publisher
Pages 192
Release 2020
Genre Viola d'amore
ISBN 9781138358966

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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 viola d'amore specimens, both as originally constructed and as a result of conversion and repair. The viola d'amore is then set into the wider context of Elizabethan England's development of instruments with wire strings, and its legacy in the form of the baryton which emerged in the early seventeenth century, followed by a look at the viola d'amore's own nomenclatorial and organological influence. The book closes with a discussion of the viola d'amore's revival, and its use and manufacture today. Offering insights for organological research and historical performance practice, this study enhances our knowledge of both the viola d'amore and its wider family of instruments.

The Viola D'amore

The Viola D'amore
Title The Viola D'amore PDF eBook
Author Harry Danks
Publisher Theodore Front Music
Pages 148
Release 1979
Genre Music
ISBN 9780900998164

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Vivaldi's Virgins LP

Vivaldi's Virgins LP
Title Vivaldi's Virgins LP PDF eBook
Author Barbara Quick
Publisher Harper Collins
Pages 415
Release 2007-07-03
Genre Fiction
ISBN 0061285269

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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 masked ball in the company of a king; from the passionate communal life of adolescent girls competing for their maestro's favor to the larger-than-life world of music and spectacle that kept the citizens of a dying republic in thrall. In this world, where for fully half the year the entire city is masked and cloaked in the anonymity of Carnival, nothing is as it appears to be. A virtuoso performance in the tradition of Girl with a Pearl Earring, Vivaldi's Virgins is a fascinating glimpse inside the source of Vivaldi's musical legacy, interwoven with the gripping story of a remarkable young woman's coming-of-age in a deliciously evocative time and place.

Stradivari

Stradivari
Title Stradivari PDF eBook
Author Stewart Pollens
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 367
Release 2010-02-11
Genre Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN 0521873045

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A highly illustrated biography and study of Stradivari, the greatest violin maker, including colour photographs of his most famous instruments.

The Viola Da Gamba

The Viola Da Gamba
Title The Viola Da Gamba PDF eBook
Author Bettina Hoffmann
Publisher Routledge
Pages 0
Release 2019-11-11
Genre
ISBN 9780367443757

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The viola da gamba was a central instrument in European music from the late fifteenth century well into the late eighteenth. Bettina Hoffmann offers an introduction to the instrument-its construction, technique and history-for the non-specialist with a wealth of original archival scholarship that experts will relish.

Life After Death

Life After Death
Title Life After Death PDF eBook
Author Peter Holman
Publisher Boydell & Brewer
Pages 434
Release 2010
Genre Music
ISBN 1843835746

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New research throws light on the history of the viol after Purcell, including its revival in the late eighteenth century through Charles Frederick Abel.

Mole Music

Mole Music
Title Mole Music PDF eBook
Author
Publisher Macmillan
Pages 36
Release 2001-10
Genre Education
ISBN 9780805067668

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Feeling that something is missing in his simple life, Mole acquires a violin and learns to make beautiful, joyful music.