Holman Life After Death: The Viola da Gamba in Britain from Purcell to Dolmetsch

1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-1-84615-898-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 6, 432 Seiten

Reihe: Music in Britain, 1600-1900

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

Autoren/Hrsg.

Holman, Peter

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Geschichte der Musik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
'Musitians on the Viol de Gamba': Professional Players in Restoration England
'The Noble Bass Viol': Amateur Players around 1700
'Per la Viola da Gamba': Immigrants in Early Eighteenth-Century London
'Awake my Cetra, Harp and Lute': John Frederick Hintz and the Cult of Exotic Instruments
'A Solo on the Viola da Gamba': Charles Frederick Abel as a Performer
'Composed to the Soul': Abel's Viola da Gamba Music
'The Heart of Sensibility': Writers, Artists and Aristocrats
'The Art of Playing it has never Died Out in this Country': Abel's Competitors, Followers and Successors
'Performed upon the Original Instruments for which it was Written': the Viola da Gamba and the Early Music Revival

Über Autor(innen)

Holman Peter:
PETER HOLMAN is Emeritus Professor of Historical Musicology at Leeds University. When not occupied with writing and research, he organises performances of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century music, mostly directing them from the keyboard. He is director of The Parley of Instruments, Leeds Baroque, the Suffolk Villages Festival and the annual Baroque Summer School run by Cambridge Early Music.