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Life After Death: The Viola da Gamba in Britain from Purcell to Dolmetsch (Paperback)
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Life After Death: The Viola da Gamba in Britain from Purcell to Dolmetsch (Paperback)
Series: Music in Britain, 1600-1900
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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.
Later chapters investigate the gamba's role as an emblem of
sensibility among aristocrats, artists and intellectuals, including
the Countess of Pembroke, Sir Edward Walpole, Ann Ford, Laurence
Sterne, Thomas Gainsborough and Benjamin Franklin, and trace Abel's
influence and legacy farinto the nineteenth century. A concluding
chapter is concerned with its role in the developing early music
movement, culminating with Arnold Dolmetsch's first London concerts
with old instruments in 1890. PETER HOLMAN is Professor Emeritus of
Historical Musicology at Leeds University, and director of The
Parley of Instruments, the choir Psalmody, and the Suffolk Villages
Festival.
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