The Viola da Gamba

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315284235
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (152 download)

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Book Synopsis The Viola da Gamba by : Bettina Hoffmann

Download or read book The Viola da Gamba written by Bettina Hoffmann and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-04-19 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The viola da gamba was a central instrument in European music from the late 15th century well into the late 18th. In this comprehensive study, Bettina Hoffmann offers both an introduction to the instrument -- its construction, technique and history -- for the non-specialist, interweaving this information with a wealth of original archival scholarship that experts will relish. The book begins with a description of the instrument, and here Hoffmann grapples with the complexity of various names applied to this and related instruments. Following two chapters on the instrument's construction and ancestry, the core of the book is given to a historical and geographical survey of the instrument from its origins into the classical period. The book closes with a look at the revival of interest in the 19th and 20th centuries.

The Italian Viola Da Gamba

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Publisher : Presses Univ. Limoges
ISBN 13 : 9782950934253
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (342 download)

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Book Synopsis The Italian Viola Da Gamba by : Susan Orlando

Download or read book The Italian Viola Da Gamba written by Susan Orlando and published by Presses Univ. Limoges. This book was released on 2002 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Frederick the Great and his Musicians: The Viola da Gamba Music of the Berlin School

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351566563
Total Pages : 272 pages
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Book Synopsis Frederick the Great and his Musicians: The Viola da Gamba Music of the Berlin School by : Michael O'Loghlin

Download or read book Frederick the Great and his Musicians: The Viola da Gamba Music of the Berlin School written by Michael O'Loghlin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After decades of stagnation during the reign of his father, the 'Barracks King', the performing arts began to flourish in Berlin under Frederick the Great. Even before his coronation in 1740, the crown prince commenced recruitment of a group of musician-composers who were to form the basis of a brilliant court ensemble. Several composers, including C.P.E. Bach and the Graun brothers, wrote music for the viola da gamba, an instrument which was already becoming obsolete elsewhere. They were encouraged in this endeavour by the presence in the orchestra from 1741 of Ludwig Christian Hesse, one of the last gamba virtuosi, who was described in 1766 as 'unquestionably the finest gambist in Europe'. This study shows how the unique situation in Berlin produced the last major corpus of music written for the viola da gamba, and how the more virtuosic works were probably the result of close collaboration between Hesse and the Berlin School composers. The reader is also introduced to the more approachable pieces which were written and arranged for amateur viol players, including the king's nephew and ultimate successor, Frederick William II. O'Loghlin argues that the aesthetic circumstances which prevailed in Berlin brought forth a specific style that is reflected not only in the music for viola da gamba. Characteristics of this Berlin style are identified with reference to a broad selection of original written sources, many of which are hardly accessible to English-speaking readers. There is also a discussion of the rather contradictory reception history of the Berlin School and some of its composers. The book concludes with a complete thematic catalogue of the Berlin gamba music, with a listing of original manuscript sources and modern publications. The book will appeal to professional and amateur viola da gamba players as well as to scholars of eighteenth-century German music.

The Bassanos

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351546015
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)

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Book Synopsis The Bassanos by : Roger Prior

Download or read book The Bassanos written by Roger Prior and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1530s, five Bassano brothers, who were outstanding wind players and instrument makers, emigrated from Venice to England. Dr Lasocki‘s authoritative new book, the first to be devoted to the family, is a minutely researched account of these brothers, their sons (and a daughter) and their grandsons. The first half of the book discusses the everyday affairs of the family - their relationships, religion, property, law suits, finances, and standing in society. Two chapters, one written by Roger Prior, are devoted to Emilia Bassano, whose identification as thedark lady of Shakespeare‘s sonnets is supported by a wealth of evidence. The second half of the book discusses the family‘s musical activities. At the English Court the Bassanos made up a recorder consort that lasted 90 years; they also played in the flute/cornett and shawm/sackbutt consorts. As instrument makers their fame was spread throughout Europe. The book‘s appendixes present information on the Venetian branch of the family and the musical activities of the English branch since 1665.

A Performer's Guide to Seventeenth-Century Music

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Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253005280
Total Pages : 558 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Book Synopsis A Performer's Guide to Seventeenth-Century Music by : Stewart Carter

Download or read book A Performer's Guide to Seventeenth-Century Music written by Stewart Carter and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2012-03-21 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revised and expanded, A Performer's Guide to Seventeenth Century Music is a comprehensive reference guide for students and professional musicians. The book contains useful material on vocal and choral music and style; instrumentation; performance practice; ornamentation, tuning, temperament; meter and tempo; basso continuo; dance; theatrical production; and much more. The volume includes new chapters on the violin, the violoncello and violone, and the trombone—as well as updated and expanded reference materials, internet resources, and other newly available material. This highly accessible handbook will prove a welcome reference for any musician or singer interested in historically informed performance.

The Caldwell Collection of Viols

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Publisher : Music Word Media Group
ISBN 13 : 1937330060
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (373 download)

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Book Synopsis The Caldwell Collection of Viols by : Catharina Meints Caldwell

Download or read book The Caldwell Collection of Viols written by Catharina Meints Caldwell and published by Music Word Media Group. This book was released on 2012 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This app for Apple iPad presents the 22 stringed musical instruments in the Caldwell Collection of Viols, including fine, rare, and important examples by Amati, Bertrand, Norman, Rose, Tielke, and others. Lavishly illustrated listings provide: * more than 200 photographs, including full-page portraits of each instrument by Roger Mastroianni * over 90 minutes of music, in 40 audio tracks * details of provenance, dimensions, and restoration history * technical descriptions of each instrument by the contemporary viol builder John Pringle * essays on the makers by the musicologist Thomas G. MacCracken The publication contains Catharina Meints Caldwell's moving and humorous memoir as well as a catalogue, telling the story of how the collection was shaped by the forty-year musical life together of its principals, and by their conviction that "instruments, no matter how beautiful, are meant to be played and heard, not just looked at."

Journal of the Viola Da Gamba Society of America

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Journal of the Viola Da Gamba Society of America written by Viola da Gamba Society of America and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Performer's Guide to Renaissance Music

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Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253013771
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Book Synopsis A Performer's Guide to Renaissance Music by : Jeffery Kite-Powell

Download or read book A Performer's Guide to Renaissance Music written by Jeffery Kite-Powell and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2007-08-02 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revised and expanded since it first appeared in 1991, the guide features two new chapters on ornamentation and rehearsal techniques, as well as updated reference materials, internet resources, and other new material made available only in the last decade. The guide is comprised of focused chapters on performance practice issues such as vocal and choral music; various types of ensembles; profiles of specific instruments; instrumentation; performance practice issues; theory; dance; regional profiles of Renaissance music; and guidelines for directors. The format addresses the widest possible audience for early music, including amateur and professional performers, musicologists, theorists, and educators.

Performance Practice

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113676769X
Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (367 download)

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Book Synopsis Performance Practice by : Roland Jackson

Download or read book Performance Practice written by Roland Jackson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-23 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Performance practice is the study of how music was performed over the centuries, both by its originators (the composers and performers who introduced the works) and, later, by revivalists. This first of its kind Dictionary offers entries on composers, musiciansperformers, technical terms, performance centers, musical instruments, and genres, all aimed at elucidating issues in performance practice. This A-Z guide will help students, scholars, and listeners understand how musical works were originally performed and subsequently changed over the centuries. Compiled by a leading scholar in the field, this work will serve as both a point-of-entry for beginners as well as a roadmap for advanced scholarship in the field.

Style and Performance for Bowed String Instruments in French Baroque Music

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317048814
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Book Synopsis Style and Performance for Bowed String Instruments in French Baroque Music by : Mary Cyr

Download or read book Style and Performance for Bowed String Instruments in French Baroque Music written by Mary Cyr and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-01 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mary Cyr addresses the needs of researchers, performers, and informed listeners who wish to apply knowledge about historically informed performance to specific pieces. Special emphasis is placed upon the period 1680 to 1760, when the viol, violin, and violoncello grew to prominence as solo instruments in France. Part I deals with the historical background to the debate between the French and Italian styles and the features that defined French style. Part II summarizes the present state of research on bowed string instruments (violin, viola, cello, contrebasse, pardessus de viole, and viol) in France, including such topics as the size and distribution of parts in ensembles and the role of the contrebasse. Part III addresses issues and conventions of interpretation such as articulation, tempo and character, inequality, ornamentation, the basse continue, pitch, temperament, and "special effects" such as tremolo and harmonics. Part IV introduces four composer profiles that examine performance issues in the music of Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre, Marin Marais, Jean-Baptiste Barrière, and the Forquerays (father and son). The diversity of compositional styles among this group of composers, and the virtuosity they incorporated in their music, generate a broad field for discussing issues of performance practice and offer opportunities to explore controversial themes within the context of specific pieces.

The Consort Music of William Lawes, 1602-1645

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Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 0954680979
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (546 download)

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Book Synopsis The Consort Music of William Lawes, 1602-1645 by : John Patrick Cunningham

Download or read book The Consort Music of William Lawes, 1602-1645 written by John Patrick Cunningham and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2010 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book looks at the work of one of England's finest composers, William Lawes. It provides a contextual examination of music at the court of Charles I, a detailed study of Lawes's autograph sources and an examination of his consort music.

Reader's Guide to Music

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135942692
Total Pages : 2624 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (359 download)

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Book Synopsis Reader's Guide to Music by : Murray Steib

Download or read book Reader's Guide to Music written by Murray Steib and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-02 with total page 2624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Reader's Guide to Music is designed to provide a useful single-volume guide to the ever-increasing number of English language book-length studies in music. Each entry consists of a bibliography of some 3-20 titles and an essay in which these titles are evaluated, by an expert in the field, in light of the history of writing and scholarship on the given topic. The more than 500 entries include not just writings on major composers in music history but also the genres in which they worked (from early chant to rock and roll) and topics important to the various disciplines of music scholarship (from aesthetics to gay/lesbian musicology).

The Bassanos

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351546007
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)

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Book Synopsis The Bassanos by : Roger Prior

Download or read book The Bassanos written by Roger Prior and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1530s, five Bassano brothers, who were outstanding wind players and instrument makers, emigrated from Venice to England. Dr Lasocki?s authoritative new book, the first to be devoted to the family, is a minutely researched account of these brothers, their sons (and a daughter) and their grandsons. The first half of the book discusses the everyday affairs of the family - their relationships, religion, property, law suits, finances, and standing in society. Two chapters, one written by Roger Prior, are devoted to Emilia Bassano, whose identification as the ?dark lady? of Shakespeare?s sonnets is supported by a wealth of evidence. The second half of the book discusses the family?s musical activities. At the English Court the Bassanos made up a recorder consort that lasted 90 years; they also played in the flute/cornett and shawm/sackbutt consorts. As instrument makers their fame was spread throughout Europe. The book?s appendixes present information on the Venetian branch of the family and the musical activities of the English branch since 1665.

Goldberg

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Goldberg written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

William Lawes (1602-1645)

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429766076
Total Pages : 375 pages
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Book Synopsis William Lawes (1602-1645) by : Andrew Ashbee

Download or read book William Lawes (1602-1645) written by Andrew Ashbee and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-05-20 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1998, this volume comprises papers given at a conference on Lawes and his music held at Oxford in September 1995 to commemorate the 350th anniversary of his death. They examine not only Lawes’s music but the milieu in which he worked. Part One examines the musical life of the English Court in Lawes’s day, noting his activities there and his involvement with companies of players. Manuscript studies and a detailed account of the fatal battle are also included. Part Two comprises seven essays exploring the wide range of his instrumental and vocal music. William Lawes is acknowledged as the most exciting and innovative composer working in England during the reign of Charles I. His tragic early death at the Siege of Chester in 1645 only served to heighten his reputation among his contemporaries, lending him also the cloak of martyrdom in the service of his king.

Performing History

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Publisher : Academic Studies PRess
ISBN 13 : 1644694468
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (446 download)

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Book Synopsis Performing History by : Nancy November

Download or read book Performing History written by Nancy November and published by Academic Studies PRess. This book was released on 2020-08-25 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fifteen essays of Performing History glimpse the diverse ways music historians “do” history, and the diverse ways in which music histories matter. This book’s chapters are structured into six key areas: historically informed performance; ethnomusicological perspectives; particular musical works that “tell,” “enact,” or “perform” war histories; operatic works that works that “tell,” “enact,” or “perform” power or enlightenment; musical works that deploy the body and a broad range of senses to convey histories; and histories involving popular music and performance. Diverse lines of evidence and manifold methodologies are represented here, ranging from traditional historical archival research to interviewing, performing, and composing. The modes of analyzing music and its associated texts represented here are as various as the kinds of evidence explored, including, for example, reading historical accounts against other contextual backdrops, and reading “between the lines” to access other voices than those provided by mainstream interpretation or traditional musicology.

The Edinburgh Magazine, Or, Literary Miscellany

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 550 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The Edinburgh Magazine, Or, Literary Miscellany written by and published by . This book was released on 1780 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: