The Italian viola da gamba
Subtitle: proceedings of the International Symposium on the Italian Viola da Gamba : Christophe Coin & Susan Orlando, directors : Magnano, Italy, 29 April-1 May 2000
By: edited by Susan Orlando.
Contributors: Orlando, Susan.; Coin, Christophe.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Ensemble baroque de Limoges; A. Manzoni
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Solignac; Torino
Language: eng; ita; fre
Number of pages: 223
Subjects: Viola da gamba -- Italy -- Congresses.; Viols -- Italy -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: Includes summaries in Italian and French.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Early evidence of the viola da gamba in Italy / Renato Meucci; title: 'Wherein the most complete harmony was heard' : the viola da gamba in chromatic and enharmonic music in seventeenth-century Rome / Martin Kirnbauer; title: Monteverdi, the viola bastarda player / James Bates; title: An eighteenth-century Italian treatise and other clues to the history of the viola da gamba in Italy / Vittorio Ghielmi; title: The viola da gamba in Cremona / Carlo Chiesa; title: Problems of authenticity in sixteenth-century Italian viols and the Brussels collection / Karel Moens; title: The viola bastarda and the art of improvising / Paolo Pandolfo; title: Italian instruments in a list of extant viols made before 1900 / Thomas G. MacCracken; title: Violin traits in Italian viol building, rule or exception? / Myrna Herzog; title: Real gut strings : some new experiments in historical stringing / Oliver Webber; title: The system and proportions of barring on viols / Luc Breton; title: A study of three viols attributed to Antonio Ciciliano / Simone Zopf; title: The 'Antonio Ciciliano à Venetia' viol in the Accademia filharmonica of Bologna / Marco Tiella; title: Glossary of terms.