The Viola D'amore
Author : Harry Danks
Publisher : Theodore Front Music
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 30,94 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780900998164
Author : Harry Danks
Publisher : Theodore Front Music
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 30,94 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780900998164
Author : Antonio Vivaldi
Publisher : Alfred Music
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 24,18 MB
Release : 1996-02-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781457478246
Expertly arranged concerto for viola and piano.
Author : Rachael Durkin
Publisher :
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 45,87 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Viola d'amore
ISBN : 9781138358966
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 : Barbara Quick
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 16,85 MB
Release : 2007-07-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0061285269
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.
Author : Antonio Vivaldi
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 31,52 MB
Release : 1967
Category :
ISBN :
Editio musica.
Author : Johann Michael Böhm
Publisher :
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 24,14 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Trio sonatas (Oboe d'amore, viola d'amore, continuo)
ISBN :
Author :
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 20,10 MB
Release : 2004-06-01
Category :
ISBN : 9781419299834
Sheet Music: Vivaldi, A. (1678-1741) Viola d'amore, Lute, Strings: Violins, Viola, Cello, Basso Continuo.
Author : Karl Stamitz
Publisher : Alfred Music
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 35,61 MB
Release : 1996-02-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781457478345
A solo, for Viola with Piano Accompaniment, composed by Karl Stamitz.
Author : Rudolf Hacker
Publisher :
Page : 41 pages
File Size : 22,23 MB
Release : 1994
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Donald Maurice
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 22,57 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0195156900
Tells the intriguing story of Bela Bartok's viola concerto, a work left unfinished at his death in 1945. Drawing on interviews and documents that reveal previously unavailable information, it discusses the commission, the reconstruction by Tibor Serly, events leading up to the premiere, its reception over the second half of the twentieth century, the revisions, and future possibilities.