Download or read book The Viola Da Gamba written by Bettina Hoffmann and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Music for division viol -- Technique -- The end of the Golden Age: amateurs and foreigners -- 5.3 France -- From five to six strings -- From 6 to 7 strings -- En famille -- The querelle -- The high school of the viol -- Playing technique -- Avec la basse? -- En compagnie -- Viol construction -- The decline: the pardessus de viole -- 5.4 The German Empire and the Netherlands -- Germania monstro simile -- The viol consort: "Sonderlich mit Violn de Gamba, In mangelung aber de Bracio -- The viol consort: instruments, tunings and measures -- The solo viol: the shaping of an idiom -- The 18th century -- Musical functions: the repertoire -- Instruments and lutherie after ca 1650 -- The final decades -- 6 The revival -- 6.1 Italy in the second half of the 18th century -- 6.2 The first half of the 19th century -- 6.3 The last decades of the 19th century -- 6.4 The 20th century -- 6.5 Today -- Glossary of technical, terms -- Bibliography -- Index