DownloadThe Portobello Bookshop Gift Guide 2024

One Hundred Years of Violoncello

A History of Technique and Performance Practice, 1740–1840

Valerie Walden author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:19th Aug '04

Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back

One Hundred Years of Violoncello cover

The first book to address the full range of performance issues for the violoncello.

The first book to address the full range of performance issues for the violoncello from the Baroque to the early Romantic period. Richly illustrated with over 300 music examples, plates and figures, this book provides playing instructions which can easily be applied by modern players to their own performance of period music.This is the first book to address the full range of performance issues for the cello from the Baroque to the early Romantic period. The development of playing techniques and stylistic transitions are traced regionally through a comparison of Italian, French, German, English, and East European performance traits. Through a close study of contemporary violoncello methods, music, early instruments, periodicals, diaries, letters and pictures, Walden provides a cohesive overview which examines construction methods for instruments and bows, fingering and bowing techniques, special effects and ornamentation, accompanying skills and the stylistic preferences of the most famous soloists. Richly illustrated with over 300 music examples, plates and figures, this book provides playing instructions which can easily be applied by modern players to their own performance of period music.

ISBN: 9780521607612

Dimensions: 247mm x 190mm x 18mm

Weight: 605g

328 pages