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The viola d'amore : its history and development

Title
The viola d'amore : its history and development / Rachael Durkin.
Author
Durkin, Rachael
Publication
  • Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2021.
  • ©2021

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Description
xiv, 179 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
Summary
"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"--
Subject
Viola d'amore
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages [154]-172) and index.
Contents
An obsolete instrument of the viol tribe : The viola d'amore -- For its swetenesse & novelty : The wire-strung viola d'amore -- Especially charming in the stillness of the evening : The sympathetically-strung viola d'amore -- La Viole d'amour est ordinairement montée de 6. ou de 7. cordes : Design and development of the viola d'amore -- A dolefull & straunge noyse of violles, Cythren, Bandurion : The context of the viola d'amore -- Une masse de violes d'amour chantant une belle prière : The viola d'amore's revival.
Call Number
JME 21-52
ISBN
  • 9781138358966
  • 1138358967
  • 9780367513733 (canceled/invalid)
  • 9780429783654 (canceled/invalid)
  • 9780429783661 (canceled/invalid)
  • 9780429783647 (canceled/invalid)
  • 9780429433993 (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
2020010355
OCLC
1142939727
Author
Durkin, Rachael, author.
Title
The viola d'amore : its history and development / Rachael Durkin.
Publisher
Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2021.
Copyright Date
©2021
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages [154]-172) and index.
Local Note
AUTH: NORTHUMBRIA UNIVERSITY. HISTORY OF POPULAR BAROQUE-ERA BOWED INSTRUMENT.
Other Form:
Online version: Durkin, Rachael, Viola d'amore New York : Routledge, 2020. 9780367513733 (DLC) 2020010356
Research Call Number
JME 21-52
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