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Life After Death: The Viola Da Gamba in Britain from Purcell to Dolmetsch
Peter Holman
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Description for Life After Death: The Viola Da Gamba in Britain from Purcell to Dolmetsch
Hardback.
New research throws light on the history of the viol after Purcell, including its revival in the late eighteenth century through Charles Frederick Abel. 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 ... Read more
New research throws light on the history of the viol after Purcell, including its revival in the late eighteenth century through Charles Frederick Abel. 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
434
Condition
New
Number of Pages
432
Place of Publication
Woodbridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781843835745
SKU
V9781843835745
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Ref
99-1
About Peter Holman
PETER HOLMAN is Emeritus Professor of Historical Musicology at Leeds University. When not occupied with writing and research, he organises performances of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century music, mostly directing them from the keyboard. He is director of The Parley of Instruments, Leeds Baroque, the Suffolk Villages Festival and the annual Baroque Summer School run by Cambridge Early Music.
Reviews for Life After Death: The Viola Da Gamba in Britain from Purcell to Dolmetsch
[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 & LETTERS
[Eine] spannenede und extreme informative Abhandlung.
VIOLA DA GAMBA
This is a book not only for those ... Read more
EIGHTEENTH CENTURY MUSIC
[A] fascinating study that has significantly enlightened the dark ages of a much loved instrument.
MUSIC & LETTERS
[Eine] spannenede und extreme informative Abhandlung.
VIOLA DA GAMBA
This is a book not only for those ... Read more