Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- List of Music Examples
- List of Abbreviations
- Note to the Reader
- Dedication
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Origins and Contexts
- Chapter 1 ‘Musitians on the Viol de Gamba’: Professional Players in Restoration England
- Chapter 2 ‘The Noble Base Viol’: Amateur Players around 1700
- Chapter 3 ‘Per la Viola da Gamba’: Immigrants in Early Eighteenth-Century London
- Chapter 4 ‘Awake my Cetra, Harp and Lute’: John Frederick Hintz and the Cult of Exotic Instruments
- Chapter 5 ‘A Solo on the Viola da Gamba’: Charles Frederick Abel as a Performer
- Chapter 6 ‘Composed to the Soul’: Abel’s Viola da Gamba Music
- Chapter 7 ‘The Heart of Sensibility’: Writers, Artists and Aristocrats
- Chapter 8 ‘The Art of Playing it has never Died Out in this Country’: Abel’s Competitors, Followers and Successors
- Chapter 9 ‘Performed upon the Original Instruments for which it was Written’: the Viola da Gamba and the Early Music Revival
- Bibliography
- Index
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- List of Music Examples
- List of Abbreviations
- Note to the Reader
- Dedication
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Origins and Contexts
- Chapter 1 ‘Musitians on the Viol de Gamba’: Professional Players in Restoration England
- Chapter 2 ‘The Noble Base Viol’: Amateur Players around 1700
- Chapter 3 ‘Per la Viola da Gamba’: Immigrants in Early Eighteenth-Century London
- Chapter 4 ‘Awake my Cetra, Harp and Lute’: John Frederick Hintz and the Cult of Exotic Instruments
- Chapter 5 ‘A Solo on the Viola da Gamba’: Charles Frederick Abel as a Performer
- Chapter 6 ‘Composed to the Soul’: Abel’s Viola da Gamba Music
- Chapter 7 ‘The Heart of Sensibility’: Writers, Artists and Aristocrats
- Chapter 8 ‘The Art of Playing it has never Died Out in this Country’: Abel’s Competitors, Followers and Successors
- Chapter 9 ‘Performed upon the Original Instruments for which it was Written’: the Viola da Gamba and the Early Music Revival
- Bibliography
- Index
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- Type
- Chapter
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- Life After DeathThe Viola da Gamba in Britain from Purcell to Dolmetsch, pp. i - viPublisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2010