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This book provides the first scholarly history of the viola d'amore, a popular bowed string instrument of the Baroque era, with a unique tone produced by a set of metal sympathetic strings.
List of contents
- 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
About the author
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.
Summary
This book provides the first scholarly history of the viola d’amore, a popular bowed string instrument of the Baroque era, with a unique tone produced by a set of metal sympathetic strings.
