The Viola Da Gamba by Hoffmann, Bettina -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Copyright Contents List of illustrations Abbreviations 1 Getting acquainted

1.1 What exactly is a viol? 1.2 What is the viol called?

In Italian In German In French In English In Spanish In Greek and Latin

1.3 What are the instruments of the viol family? 1.4 How is the viol tuned? 1.5 What does the viol sound like?

2 Anatomy of a viol

2.1 The body 2.2 The neck and fretboard 2.3 The bridge 2.4 Decoration 2.5 The bow 2.6 The strings 2.7 Frets and temperaments: problems of compatibility

3 Antecedents

3.1 Origins 3.2 Shapes 3.3 Names 3.4 Some technical details 3.5 Playing positions 3.6 Musical and social fields of application 3.7 The innovations of the early Renaissance

4 Renaissance

4.1 Italy, ca 1500

The archival sources A technical drawing The iconoeraphic sources Results

4.2 A new instrument achieves recognition in Europe (ca 1510-50)

Germany Italy Other European countries

4.3 Repertoire

'To sing, and to play on all kinds of instruments' What? With whom? How? Idiomaticisation and soloism: the viola bastarda

4.4 Tunings

Pitch and transposition Viol-tunings in 16th-century treatises Consequences The tuning of the viola bastarda

4.5 Playing technique 4.6 Viol structures and viol makers

False witnesses? Details The road to standardisation

5 Baroque and classical

5.1 Italy

The early 17th century After 1640: on the scent Instruments Italian viol music in Italy Miscellaneous theoretical accounts Interchange across the Alps

5.2 England

The Golden Age (ca 1600-60) The instruments: "Three sorts of Baβ-Viols" Tunings Sympathetic strings The music: "Three manners of ways in playing" Music for consort viol Music for lyra viol Music for division viol Technique The end of the Golden Age: amateurs and foreigners

5.3 France

From five to six strings From 6 to 7 strings En famille The querelle The high school of the viol Playing technique Avec la basse? En compagnie Viol construction The decline: the pardessus de viole

5.4 The German Empire and the Netherlands

Germania monstro simile The viol consort: "Sonderlich mit Violn de Gamba, In mangelung aber de Bracio" The viol consort: instruments, tunings and measures The solo viol: the shaping of an idiom The 18th century Musical functions: the repertoire Instruments and lutherie after ca 1650 The final decades

6 The revival

6.1 Italy in the second half of the 18th century 6.2 The first half of the 19th century 6.3 The last decades of the 19th century 6.4 The 20th century 6.5 Today

Glossary of technical, terms Bibliography Index