The viola d'amore : its history and development /

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Author / Creator:	Durkin, Rachael, author.
Imprint:	Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2021. ©2021
Description:	xiv, 179 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Viola d'amore. Viola d'amore.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12449328

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ISBN:	9781138358966 1138358967 9780367513733 9780429783654 9780429783661 9780429783647 9780429433993
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
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"--
Other form:	Online version: Durkin, Rachael, Viola d'amore New York : Routledge, 2020. 9780367513733

Table of 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.

The viola d'amore : its history and development /

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