Baroque Violin
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This contribution represents a chapter in the volume "Sozialgeschichte der Musik des Barock", the sixth part of the "Handbuch der Musik des Barock", and deals with the status and function of bowed and plucked instruments in the Baroque... more
- Facsimile of the 12 sonatas in ms. 177 (Biblioteca del Sacro Convento di S. Francesco) -Musicological introduction by Guido Olivieri - Critical notes by Enrico Gatti - Critical edition in a separate file, suitable for performance Texts... more
The c.1720 manuscript by Pedro Lopes Nogueira (c.1700-?), which is part of the collection of the National Library of Portugal since at least 1948, brings to the fore one of the most fascinating violin tutorials written during the European... more
Introduction The present edition offers an arrangement for Recorder of the Trio for Flauto Trav., Violino & Basso Wq. 143 by CPE Bach (1714-1788). As is customary in such adaptations, with the transposition of a minor 3nd up, from B... more
The subject-matter of the work is a seventeenth-century Italian sonata for a violin solo and continuo, its form and the technique. For the needs of the work, all known and preserved old prints and manuscripts with the Italian violin... more
Aunque en la Edad Media existieron instrumentos parecidos, fue el italiano Andrea Amati quien, a mediados del siglo XVI, fabricó los primeros violines tal como hoy los conocemos.
Una traducción al castellano del tratado de F. Geminiani: The art of playing on the violin. "Contiene todas las reglas necesarias para alcanzar la perfección en dicho instrumento, con gran variedad de composiciones, las cuales serán... more
The house of Mario Maggi, violin teacher at the School of Violin Making in Cremona, welcomes an important correspondence and an extraordinary collection of musical instruments. The teacher collaborated, since the years of the war for the... more
This article is a translation of a study originally published in Dutch: Wim RAYMAEKERS, De vormkenmerken van de instrumenten der vioolfamilie in de 17de-eeuwse Nederlandse schilderkunst, in Musica antiqua. Actuele informatie over oude... more
Eine komparative Lektüre der pädagogischen Literatur des 17. und 18. Jahrhunderts
While I was extensively studying the forgotten lutherie style represented in many Dutch paintings from the era between 1620 and 1640, the plan arose to make a reconstruction, not only on paper but also for real. The result is now part of... more
It is assumed that the bow model designed by Francois Xavier Tourte has been generally accepted as soon as it appeared. Recent research established that especially in those countries where the revolutionary French school of violin playing... more
The Schrank II (Cabinet II) collection from the Die Sächsische Landesbibliothek – Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Dresden (SLUB) is not only one of the most interesting archives open to the worldwide audience thanks to the new... more
La primera parte está dedicada a la historia inicial del violín, es decir a la historia anterior a la constitución como tal de ese instrumento. La presencia de esa parte en mi trabajo se explica porque considero preciso ubicar a... more
This is a scholarly article, but at the same time a plea for an urgent rewrite of the early history of the violin, this time unhampered by prejudice and entrenched ideas. To me, this is symbolic of the world we are now fighting for: a... more
Complete catalog of the Vazquez Collection of the Orpheon Foundation, as. of June, 2020.
The collection is now in Bologna, Museo San Colombano (Genus Bononiae)
The collection is now in Bologna, Museo San Colombano (Genus Bononiae)
In the Baroque era, the violino piccolo was the highest and smallest member of the violin family. Claudio Monteverdi wrote for the instrument in his L’Orfeo (1607), and Michael Praetorius mentioned it in his Syntagma musicum (1619).... more
The origin of the violin is one of the great lacunae in the history of musical instruments. The violin is the product of a long process of development, the standard form emerging in Brescia and Cremona in the third quarter of the 16th... more
Traduzione in italiano dell'articolo di Stewart Pollens "Some Misconceptions about the Baroque Violin" scritto per Performance Practice Review e consultabile su http://scholarship.claremont.edu/ppr/vol14/iss1/6/ Molto è stato scritto... more
Irving, David R. M. ‘Handel and the Violin’. Early Music Performer 32 (2013): 4–12.
Treatises, reports and iconographic documents testify to the great variety of violin techniques coexisting in Corelli’s lifetime. Cristofor Schor’s famous engraving of Corelli leading an orchestra at the Piazza di Spagna in 1687 shows... more
In the Schrank II collection of the sächsische landesbibliothek – staats- und universitätsbibliothek (sluB) of dresden there is preserved a set of separate parts – copied out by Johann Georg Pisendel between 1720 and 1730 – for an... more
Catalog of the Vazquez Collection of the Orpheon Foundation, June, 2020. The present exhibition is in Bologna: San Colombano (Genus Bononiae).... more
The violinist Giovanni Antonio Piani had a crucial role in the triumph of Italian instrumental music in France at the beginning of the eighteenth century. A member of a celebrated family of musicians, Piani completed his studies at the... more
Musicological, stylistic, pedagogical analysis and presentation of the performance edition of the Manuscript M.M. 4824 entitled "Consta este Livro de toda a Casta de Lisões, que servem para se fazer estudo na Rabeca: ao que Se seguem... more
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/early-music-history/latest-issue Placing amateur performers and their instrument of choice at the forefront of inquiry, this article makes a case for the Spanish guitar as an instrument through... more
Giulia Felice d'Este (1588?-1646), figlia naturale del cardinale Alessandro (1568-1624) dei marchesi di Montecchio, fratello di Cesare, primo duca del ramo modenese, fu "principessa suora" che trascorse la maggior parte della sua vita nel... more
This text was written as a contribution to the Laaber Bach-Handbuch (Bd. IV Instrumentalmusik, Laaber 2013), but has been withdrawn by the author after dissention with the publisher. Another text on the violoncello, however, remained in... more
Bibliographical review and hermeneutics reading of 19 violin tutors from the 21st century. XVIII to contextualize and establish performance guidelines for the Portuguese manuscript Casta de Lições of Pedro Lopes Nogueira (1720). The... more
"O celeste armonia di lieta sorte". "Lectures", lezioni e ricerche di musicologia, a cura di Galliano Ciliberti e Giovanni Tribuzio, Perugia, Morlacchi Editore University Press, 2019 (ISBN 9788893921244)
International STIMU-Symposium, "The Historical Violin", Utrecht, 27/08/2019 Violin bands at the Comédie Française: on the interpretation of theatrical music at the time of Lully Preserved in the Library-museum of the Comédie-Française,... more
Existem na Biblioteca Pública de Dresden três trios para dois violinos e baixo contínuo atribuídos ao ‘sgnre Avondano’ e catalogados como Mus.2661-Q-1/2/3. Aqui neste artigo busca-se precisar aspectos de data e autoria, através da reunião... more
Salvatore Mazzella, attivo a Roma nella seconda metà del Seicento, dedicò la sua esigua produzione musicale al Cardinale Astalli personalità controversa dell’aristocrazia romana. Poco o nulla si conosce della sua biografia, salvo alcuni... more
Ricostruzione della vita musicale presso la chiesa di Santa Maria delle Anime del Purgatorio ad Arco di Napoli tramite lo studio delle fonti d'archivio (secc. XVII-XVIII). Tesi del Biennio di Specializzazione in DISCAMUS (Discipline... more