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Life After Death: The Viola Da Gamba in Britain from Purcell to Dolmetsch

Life After Death: The Viola Da Gamba in Britain from Purcell to Dolmetsch

Holman, Peter

Hardcover

Series: Music in Britain, 1600-1900, Book 6

Classical MusicMusic ReferenceMusic Instruction: Strings

ISBN10: 1843835746
ISBN13: 9781843835745
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Inc
Published: Nov 18 2010
Pages: 432
Weight: 2.42
Height: 1.30 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.30
Language: English
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 of the fashion for exotic instruments in themiddle of the century; and how the presence in London of its greatest eighteenth-century exponent, Charles Frederick Abel, sparked off a revival in the 1760s and 70s.

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