The Early History Of The Viol

Author : Ian Woodfield
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521357432
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Early History of the Viol written by Ian Woodfield and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1988-04-21 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces the development of the viol from its late medieval Spanish origins to the sixteenth century, when it became the most widely played bowed instrument in western Europe. Ian Woodfield examines the two most important ancestors of the instrument, the Moorish rahab and the vihuela de mano. From these two instruments emerged an early form of viol, the Valencian vihuela de arco, which spread rapidly across the Mediterranean during the papacy of Rodrigo Borgia. The viol was enthusiastically accepted by the d'Este and Gonzaga families and other Italian arbiters before migrating across the Alps and into the rest of Europe. The author discusses all aspects of the viol during its Renaissance hey-day: the growing perfection of viol design at the hands of Italian craftsmen; the gradual evolution of tuning systems; the development of advanced playing techniques and the wide range of music, both solo and consort. The final chapter examines the growth of a viol playing tradition in sixteenth-century England, in particular in the London choir-schools. Dr Woodfield brings iconographic evidence and an interesting approach to this study which will be of interest to musicologists, iconographers, organologists and viol players.

Author : William Sandys
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The History of the Violin written by William Sandys and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Michael Fleming
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1317147162
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Early English Viols: Instruments, Makers and Music written by Michael Fleming and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-11-18 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Nicholas Bessaraboff Prize Musical repertory of great importance and quality was performed on viols in sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century England. This is reported by Thomas Mace (1676) who says that ’Your Best Provision’ for playing such music is a chest of old English viols, and he names five early English viol makers than which ’there are no Better in the World’. Enlightened scholars and performers (both professional and amateur) who aim to understand and play this music require reliable historical information and need suitable viols, but so little is known about the instruments and their makers that we cannot specify appropriate instruments with much precision. Our ignorance cannot be remedied exclusively by the scrutiny or use of surviving antique viols because they are extremely rare, they are not accessible to performers and the information they embody is crucially compromised by degradation and alteration. Drawing on a wide variety of evidence including the surviving instruments, music composed for those instruments, and the documentary evidence surrounding the trade of instrument making, Fleming and Bryan draw significant conclusions about the changing nature and varieties of viol in early modern England.

Author : Bettina Hoffmann
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781138240230
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Viola Da Gamba written by Bettina Hoffmann and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

Author : Carl Engel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Researches Into the Early History of the Violin Family written by Carl Engel and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Rachael Durkin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781138358966
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Viola D'Amore written by Rachael Durkin and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Edmund Van Der Straeten
Publisher : Da Capo Press, Incorporated
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The History Of The Violin written by Edmund Van Der Straeten and published by Da Capo Press, Incorporated. This book was released on 1968-03-21 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Alison Crum
Publisher : Clarendon Press
ISBN 13 : 9780198163114
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Play the Viol written by Alison Crum and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Play the Viol meets the need for a comprehensive guide to playing technique which provides for the specific requirements of the adult beginner. The book covers the treble, tenor, and bass viol, and assumes no knowledge beyond an ability to read music.

Author : Annette Otterstedt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Viol written by Annette Otterstedt and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Iain Fenlon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521104333
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Early Music History written by Iain Fenlon and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-03-19 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early Music History is devoted to the study of music from the early Middle Ages to the end of the seventeenth century. It demands the highest standards of scholarship from its contributors, all of whom are leading academics in their fields. It gives preference to studies pursuing interdisciplinary approaches and to those developing novel methodological ideas. The scope is exceptionally broad and includes manuscript studies, textual criticism, iconography, studies of the relationship between words and music and the relationship between music and society. Articles in volume six include: On the question of psalmody in the ancient synagogue; Music and grammar: imitation and analogy in Morales and the Spanish humanists; and a Florentine chansonnier of the early sixteenth century.