Author: Abel/Schenk/Telemann

Release Date: 20-12-2013

Details: At first glance, the viola da gamba obviously evokes the cello: their shapes are similar and both are held between the knees and bowed. But the similarity ends there. In fact, the viola da gamba has more in common with the lute. Like a lute, a gamba's neck is fretted, and it has six or seven strings tuned in fourths around a central third, rather than the fifths of a cello. This gives the gamba lute-like harmonic and contrapuntal options not available to the cello, which has only four strings. Indeed, the viola da gamba can be thought of as a “bowed lute”; even its history of successive national schools, from the early Renaissance to the late Baroque, is similar to that of the lute.

UPC: 774204314422

EAN: 0774204314422

Languages: English

Binding: Audio CD

Item Condition: UsedVeryGood