Music For Viola Bastarda

Author : Jason Paras
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1986-04-22
Category : Music
ISBN : 0253388244

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Music for Viola Bastarda by Jason Paras Pdf

The term "viola bastarda" refers to both an instrument and a style of playing that is one of the crowning achievements of musical mannerism. The Italian repertory for the solo viola da gamba in the 16th and early 17th centuries was largely music played "alla bastarda," an art of performance in which a polyphonic composition is transformed into a single melodic line derived from the original parts and spanning their ranges. Jason Paras has traced the development of the "viola bastarda" and has assembled and transcribed 46 peices in this genre. The music in his collection is a rich and fascinating repertory that is rarely heard today. This anthology is an invitation to present-day players to recreate the improvisation practice of the 16th and 17th centuries in ways not fully disclosed by ornamentation manuals of that time.

Author : Jason Paras
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Viola da gamba
ISBN : STANFORD:36105042335047

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The Music for Viola Bastarda in Sixteenth and Seventeenth-century Italy by Jason Paras Pdf

Author : Viola da Gamba Society of America
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Music
ISBN : UOM:39015019882862

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Journal of the Viola Da Gamba Society of America by Viola da Gamba Society of America Pdf

Author : Susan Orlando,Christophe Coin
Publisher : Presses Univ. Limoges
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Musical instruments in art
ISBN : 2950934250

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The Italian Viola Da Gamba by Susan Orlando,Christophe Coin Pdf

Author : Bettina Hoffmann
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2018-04-19
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781315284231

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The Viola da Gamba by Bettina Hoffmann Pdf

The viola da gamba was a central instrument in European music from the late 15th century well into the late 18th. In this comprehensive study, Bettina Hoffmann offers both an introduction to the instrument -- its construction, technique and history -- for the non-specialist, interweaving this information with a wealth of original archival scholarship that experts will relish. The book begins with a description of the instrument, and here Hoffmann grapples with the complexity of various names applied to this and related instruments. Following two chapters on the instrument's construction and ancestry, the core of the book is given to a historical and geographical survey of the instrument from its origins into the classical period. The book closes with a look at the revival of interest in the 19th and 20th centuries.

Author : Robert Dolejší
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781468478389

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Modern Viola Technique by Robert Dolejší Pdf

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 : Ian Woodfield
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1988-04-21
Category : Music
ISBN : 0521357438

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The Early History of the Viol by Ian Woodfield Pdf

This book traces the development of the viol from its late medieval Spanish origins to the sixteenth century, when it became the most widely played bowed instrument in western Europe. Ian Woodfield examines the two most important ancestors of the instrument, the Moorish rahab and the vihuela de mano. From these two instruments emerged an early form of viol, the Valencian vihuela de arco, which spread rapidly across the Mediterranean during the papacy of Rodrigo Borgia. The viol was enthusiastically accepted by the d'Este and Gonzaga families and other Italian arbiters before migrating across the Alps and into the rest of Europe. The author discusses all aspects of the viol during its Renaissance hey-day: the growing perfection of viol design at the hands of Italian craftsmen; the gradual evolution of tuning systems; the development of advanced playing techniques and the wide range of music, both solo and consort. The final chapter examines the growth of a viol playing tradition in sixteenth-century England, in particular in the London choir-schools. Dr Woodfield brings iconographic evidence and an interesting approach to this study which will be of interest to musicologists, iconographers, organologists and viol players.

Author : Library of Congress
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2002 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Subject headings, Library of Congress
ISBN : OSU:32435081357840

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Library of Congress Subject Headings by Library of Congress Pdf

Author : Library of Congress. Cataloging Policy and Support Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1924 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Subject headings, Library of Congress
ISBN : UOM:39015079817071

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Library of Congress Subject Headings by Library of Congress. Cataloging Policy and Support Office Pdf

Author : Richard Wistreich
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2016-02-17
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781317000273

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Warrior, Courtier, Singer by Richard Wistreich Pdf

Giulio Cesare Brancaccio was a Neapolitan nobleman with long practical experience of military life, first in the service of Charles V and later as both soldier and courtier in France and then at the court of Alfonso II d'Este at Ferrara. He was also a virtuoso bass singer whose performances were praised by both Tasso and Guarini - he was even for a while the only male member of the famous Ferrarese court Concerto delle dame, who established a legendary reputation during the 1580s. Richard Wistreich examines Brancaccio's life in detail and from this it becomes possible to consider the mental and social world of a warrior and courtier with musical skills in a broader context. A wide-ranging study of bass singing in sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century Italy provides a contextual basis from which to consider Brancaccio's reputation as a performer. Wistreich illustrates the use of music in the process of 'self-fashioning' and the role of performance of all kinds in the construction of male noble identity within court culture, including the nature and currency of honour, chivalric virtù and sixteenth-century notions of gender and virility in relation to musical performance. This fascinating examination of Brancaccio's social world significantly expands our understanding of noble culture in both France and Italy during the sixteenth century, and the place of music-making within it.

Author : Seth J. Coluzzi
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 483 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2023-01-19
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781315463032

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Guarini's 'Il pastor fido' and the Madrigal by Seth J. Coluzzi Pdf

Battista Guarini’s pastoral tragicomedy Il pastor fido (1589) began its life as a play, but soon was transformed through numerous musical settings by prominent composers of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Through the many lives of this work, this book explores what happens when a lover’s lament is transplanted from the theatrical stage to the courtly chamber, from speech to song, and from a single speaking character to an ensemble of singers, shedding new light on early modern literary and musical culture. From the play’s beginnings in manuscripts, private readings, and aborted stage productions in the 1580s and 1590s, through the gradual decline of Pastor fido madrigals in the 1640s, this book examines how this widely read yet controversial text became the center of a lasting and prolific music tradition. Using a new integrative system of musical-textual analysis based on sixteenth-century theory, Seth Coluzzi demonstrates how composers responded not only to the sentiments, imagery, and form of the play’s speeches, but also to subtler details of Guarini’s verse. Viewing the musical history of Guarini’s work as an integral part of the play’s roles in the domains of theater, literature, and criticism, this book brings a new perspective to the late Italian madrigal, the play, and early modern patronage and readership across a diverse geographical and temporal frame.

Author : Viola da Gamba Society of America
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Viol music
ISBN : UVA:X001649566

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Catalog of the Microfilm Collection of the Viola Da Gamba Society of America by Viola da Gamba Society of America Pdf

Author : Andrew Ashbee
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-20
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780429766077

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William Lawes (1602-1645) by Andrew Ashbee Pdf

First published in 1998, this volume comprises papers given at a conference on Lawes and his music held at Oxford in September 1995 to commemorate the 350th anniversary of his death. They examine not only Lawes’s music but the milieu in which he worked. Part One examines the musical life of the English Court in Lawes’s day, noting his activities there and his involvement with companies of players. Manuscript studies and a detailed account of the fatal battle are also included. Part Two comprises seven essays exploring the wide range of his instrumental and vocal music. William Lawes is acknowledged as the most exciting and innovative composer working in England during the reign of Charles I. His tragic early death at the Siege of Chester in 1645 only served to heighten his reputation among his contemporaries, lending him also the cloak of martyrdom in the service of his king.

Author : Viola da Gamba Society of America
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Music
ISBN : UVA:X006107493

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Journal of the Viola Da Gamba Society of America by Viola da Gamba Society of America Pdf

Author : Annette Otterstedt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Viol
ISBN : UOM:39015056491825

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The Viol by Annette Otterstedt Pdf