The Viola D'amore
Author : Harry Danks
Publisher : Theodore Front Music
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 18,67 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780900998164
Author : Harry Danks
Publisher : Theodore Front Music
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 18,67 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780900998164
Author : Rachael Durkin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 41,89 MB
Release : 2020-07-23
Category : Art
ISBN : 0429783655
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 : Paul Shirley
Publisher :
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 16,77 MB
Release : 1920
Category : Viola d'amore
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Author : Rachael Durkin
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 15,3 MB
Release : 2015
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Author : Paul Shirley
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,10 MB
Release : 1920
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Author : Daniel Thomason
Publisher :
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 11,89 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Instrumental music
ISBN :
Author : Robert Dolejší
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 44,69 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Music
ISBN : 1468478389
HE playing of die viola has been one of the sadly neglected arts. This is all the more incredible T when we realize, as we all do today, that the instrument with its rich, mellow tone should always have been regarded as one of the most ideally gratifying mediums of musical expression when played by the accomplished artist. The insignificant position that the viola had occupied in the field of solo instru ments in the past undoubtedly was responsible for the apparent neglect in its artistic exploitation to such a degree that in nearly every symphony orchestra throughout the world the viola section (with the none tor-frequent exception of the principal player) was composed of cast-offs from the second violins, who, al ready too old to perform satisfactorily on their respective instruments, were relegated to pass their remain ing years of service playing viola. Happily, we have a different picture of the orchestral viola sections in most of our modern symphonic bodies today. Virile young players are adopting the viola as their major instrument, and that sly, well known German sobriquet, Pensions-instrument, surely is deserved no longer. The viola should be studied and played by young artists who especially adapt themselves to the serious presentation of the instrument as aseparate and independent medium of expression, which requires fully as much intelligent, conscientious, and diligent application to achieve noteworthy results as any orches tral instrument.
Author : Myron Rosenblum
Publisher :
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 19,64 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Viola d'amore
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Author : Paul Shirley
Publisher :
Page : 39 pages
File Size : 43,75 MB
Release : 1960
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Author : John Tyrrell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 13,14 MB
Release : 1982-06-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780521298537
Kát'a Kabanová is both the first Janáček opera to have been performed in Britain and the one which has received the most productions in Britain and the USA. In this book the author brings together letters, early reviews and other documents (most of them translated from Czech for the first time) on the opera's composition and its early performances. A group of key interpretations of the opera ranges from one by the opera's German translator and Janáčeks first biographer Max Brod to specially commissioned essays by Wilfrid Mellers and by David Pountney, producer of the highly successful Welsh National Opera/Scottish Opera Janáček cycle.