The Viola d’Amore
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-35896-6 (ISBN)
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.
Rachael Durkin is a Senior Lecturer in Music at Northumbria University, specialising in the field of organology. She holds a doctorate from The University of Edinburgh (2015), and has previously worked at both The University of Edinburgh and Edinburgh Napier University.
1. An obsolete instrument of the viol tribe: The viola d’amore
2. For its swetenesse & novelty: The wire-strung viola d’amore
3. Especially charming in the stillness of the evening: The sympathetically-strung viola d’amore
4. La Viole d’amour est ordinairement montée de 6. ou de 7. cordes: Design and development of the viola d’amore
5. A dolefull & straunge noyse of violles, Cythren, Bandurion: The context of the viola d’amore
6. Une masse de violes d'amour chantant une belle prière: The viola d’amore’s revival
| Erscheinungsdatum | 27.07.2020 |
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| Zusatzinfo | 6 Tables, black and white; 13 Halftones, color; 44 Halftones, black and white; 13 Illustrations, color; 44 Illustrations, black and white |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Gewicht | 530 g |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Instrumentenkunde |
| Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Klassik / Oper / Musical | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-138-35896-7 / 1138358967 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-138-35896-6 / 9781138358966 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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