Rachael Durkin

The Viola d'Amore

Its History and Development

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 202
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Juli 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 155mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 540g
• ISBN-13: 9781138358966
• ISBN-10: 1138358967
• Artikelnr.: 59927343

Autorenporträt

Rachael Durkin is a Senior Lecturer in Music at Northumbria University, specialising in the field of organology. She holds a doctorate from The University of Edinburgh (2015), and has previously worked at both The University of Edinburgh and Edinburgh Napier University.

Inhaltsangabe

1. 1. An obsolete instrument of the viol tribe: The viola d'amore
2. For its swetenesse & novelty: The wire-strung viola d'amore
3. Especially charming in the stillness of the evening: The
sympathetically-strung viola d'amore
4. La Viole d'amour est ordinairement montée de 6. ou de 7. cordes:
Design and development of the viola d'amore
5. A dolefull & straunge noyse of violles, Cythren, Bandurion: The
context of the viola d'amore
6. Une masse de violes d'amour chantant une belle prière: The viola
d'amore's revival

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1. 
   
   1. An obsolete instrument of the viol tribe: The viola d'amore
   
   2. For its swetenesse & novelty: The wire-strung viola d'amore
   
   3. Especially charming in the stillness of the evening: The sympathetically-strung viola d'amore
   
   4. La Viole d'amour est ordinairement montée de 6. ou de 7. cordes: Design and development of the viola d'amore
   
   5. A dolefull & straunge noyse of violles, Cythren, Bandurion: The context of the viola d'amore
   
   6. Une masse de violes d'amour chantant une belle prière: The viola d'amore's revival