Cello - POD TITLE

Klappentext This is the most comprehensive book ever to be published about the cello. Zusammenfassung This is a compact and authoritative survey of the cello. It deals with the history and construction of the cello and bow! discusses the careers of the most distinguished cellists through history! surveys the repertory and reviews teaching methods! technical developments and issues of performance practice. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of illustrations; Notes on the contributors; Preface; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations, fingering and notation; 1. The cello: origins and evolution John Dilworth; 2. The bow: its history and development John Dilworth; 3. Cello acoustics Bernard Richardson; 4. Masters of the Baroque and Classical eras Margaret Campbell; 5. Nineteenth-century virtuosi Margaret Campbell; 6. Masters of the twentieth century Margaret Campbell; 7. The concerto Robin Stowell and David Wyn Jones; 8. The sonata Robin Stowell; 9. Other solo repertory Robin Stowell; 10. Ensemble music: in the chamber and the orchestra Peter Allsop; 11. Technique, style and performing practice to c. 1900 Valerie Walden; 12. The development of cello teaching in the twentieth century R. Caroline Bosanquet; 13. The frontiers of technique Frances-Marie Uitti; Appendix: principal pedagogical literature; Glossary of technical terms; Notes; Select bibliography; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Robin Stowell
• Assisted by: Jonathan Cross (Editor), Robin Stowell (Editor), Robin (University of Wales College of Cardiff) Stowell (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.06.1999
• EAN: 9780521629287
• ISBN: 978-0-521-62928-7
• Dimensions: 170 mm x 250 mm x 10 mm
• Series: Cambridge Companions to Music; Cambridge Companions to Music
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Music