[PDF.41ut] Life After Death: The Viola da Gamba in Britain from Purcell to Dolmetsch (Music in Britain, 1600-1900)

Life After Death: The Viola da Gamba in Britain from Purcell to Dolmetsch (Music in Britain, 1600-1900)

[PDF.lc81] Life After Death: The Viola da Gamba in Britain from Purcell to Dolmetsch (Music in Britain, 1600-1900)

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 | #1912926 in Books |  2013-04-18 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.20 x.90 x6.10l,2.05 | File type: PDF | 432 pages

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||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| Amazing the thin|By Emily L. Ferguson|Holman's careful research into Karl Friedrich Abel and his small London circle forms the core of this book. A thorough compilation of huge quantities of data about the period after the end of the French 17C kings until and including the rediscovery of the gamba by the Dolmetsches. Amazing the thin, but surviving trail throughout those cen| |O]utstanding research [...] a valuable reference book that I will no doubt consult again and again. --Eighteenth Century Music

[A] fascinating study that has significantly enlightened the dark ages of a much loved instrument. --Music and Letters

It is normally thought that the bass viol or viola da gamba dropped out of British musical life in the 1690s, and that Henry Purcell was the last composer to write for it. Peter Holman shows how the gamba changed its role and function in the Restoration period under the influence of foreign music and musicians; how it was played and composed for by the circle of immigrant musicians around Handel; how it was part of the fashion for exotic instruments in the middle of the ...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Life After Death: The Viola da Gamba in Britain from Purcell to Dolmetsch (Music in Britain, 1600-1900)   |  Peter Holman. I was recommended this book by a dear friend of mine.

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