| Viola da Gamba Society of America |
The Viola da Gamba Society of America (VdGSA) is a not-for-profit national organization dedicated to the support of activities relating to the viola da gamba in the United States and abroad. It is a society of players, builders, publishers, distributors, restorers and others sharing a serious interest in music for viols and other early bowed string instruments. |
| Viola da gamba - Gesellschaft |
Welcome, Viola da Gamba friends
Our society was founded in 1992 in Switzerland and is the younger sister of the VdG Society of Great Britain, the VdGS of America and others around the world. Its purpose is to spread out information about the viol and everything connected with. We also want to promote contacts between viol players and fans.
Therefore we publish a quarterly periodical |
| http://novell.felk.cvut.cz/....rtime/clsocen.htm |
Czech Lute & Viola Da Gamba Society
Michaela & David Freeman
Kamenny Privoz 274, CZ - 252 82 , Czech Republic
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| Stichting Gamba: viola da gamba foundation of... |
The organisation will take care of a number of activities that will structure life with the Viola da Gamba in the Netherlands for professionals and amateurs. |
| welcome |
I recently decided to get back into playing music, after a long absence. I thought about different instruments, and considered playing the cello, but there is not much solo music I really like for that instrument, since I prefer early music and baroque music.
So, I decided to try and learn the viol.
It may seem to be an anachronism, making music by rubbing horse-hairs impregnated with tree resin against bits of animal intestine stretched over a wooden box, especially in this hypermodern era. But that is part of its charm: there is something quite relaxing about the viol that comes from another, perhaps simpler age. It has a soft, velvety sound that is not found in other string instruments, and the music written for it has an intensely meditative quality. Its sound is the closest of all instruments to the human voice.
These pages are my contribution to the world of viol players and music. Together with Jonathan Dunford, a Real viol player, I have tried to organize some of the resources available both on and off the Internet.
Like all web sites, this is always under construction, so come back from time to time to see what we have added.
Kirk Mcelhearn " |
| VdG Info Service Center |
All kinds of services |
| Société Française de Viole de Gambe / Viola d... |
Musiciens professionnels ou amateurs, luthiers, musicologues, éditeurs... ce site est le VOTRE !
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| AVdGS Home page |
Australian Viola da Gamba Society |
| Viola da gamba-föreningen |
Viola da gamba-föreningen är en förening, som har som mål att skapa och vidmakthålla ett nätverk för intresserade av instrumentet viola da gamba och dess musik. Föreningen vill bl a hjälpa till med att organisera spelträffar, ordna kurser, främja nykompositioner, informera om kurser och konserter samt fungera som ett allmänt forum för gambafrågor.
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| Dirk Moelants' viola da gamba pages |
Here you can find some transcriptions of relevant passages from 17th century treatises, together with scans of the original pages. I always tried to stay as close as possible to the original, this includes the use of 17th century spelling and abbreviations, everything in the original language. Illustrations were added in the running text as much as possible. Sometimes the quality could be improved, but it is always possible to look at the scans of the original pages, where somewhat larger versions of the illustrations are given. Hopefully this can be of some use for musicologists and for performers interested in 'historically informed performance practice'. |
| Viola Da Gamba - Peter Hütmannsberger |
Maker |
| index |
VIOLA DA GAMBA WITAMY NA POLSKIEJ STRONIE VIOLI DA GAMBA ... U nas dowiecie sie czym
wlasciwie jest viola da gamba, jak rysuje sie historia tego instrumentu... ... |
| Viola da Gamba |
Bows |
| MusicMoz - Instruments: Stringed: Bowed: Viol... |
From the Open Music Project |
| Viola da Gamba - musicolog.com |
The viola da gamba, or viol, is a bowed string instrument with frets. It is held upright and supported between the legs. Viola da gamba literally means leg viol. It can also be played, as a plucked instrument, across the lap. Generally, it is a six-stringed instrument, but seven-stringed basses are very popular and five-stringed instruments are not rare.
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| VdGSJ |
Gamba Society in Japan. |
| EarlyMusicShop.at - Historical Stringed Instr... |
In Austria |
| Viola da Gamba Society-Pacifica |
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| Viola da Gamba Strings |
Just Strings, string shop |
| Viola da Gamba Articles |
The list below is by no means a complete bibliography of materials concerning the history and development of the viola da gamba family. Indeed, so much material is available that a full list would exceed the scope of this project, and furthermore, a number of extensive viol bibliographies exist elsewhere. My own research bias has been towards the use of the larger members of the viol family and their repertoires (such as the lyra viol, viola bastarda and divisions viol, for example). But the list could easily be augmented by referencing the journals of the Viola da Gamba Societies of America and Great Britain, and by including biographical studies of the many composers who wrote for these instruments.
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| Welcome to the Viola da Gamba Society of Grea... |
The Viola da Gamba Society started in 1948 with the aim of advancing the study of viols, their music, their playing, and their making.
The viol family consists of a range of bowed instruments, similar in scope to the violin family. They flourished in 16th and 17th century Europe, with the focus for much of the ensemble, or 'consort', music being in England.
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| Markku Luolajan-Mikkola - a viola da gamba pl... |
a viola da gamba and cello player from Finland
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| viola da gamba maker Charlie Ogle |
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| Federation of Viola da Gamba Societies |
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| Thilo Hirsch - Viola da gamba/Violone/Tenor |
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| Viola da Gamba Maker Marco Ternovec |
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| Colorado Case - Viola da Gamba Cases |
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| Guidantus Viol at the National Music Museum |
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| Community Music School of Santa Cruz - Viola ... |
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| Gilles Zimmermann - composer - musician - vio... |
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| Viola da Gamba Maker Sergio Gistri |
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| Pre-College Viola da Gamba Program |
The Indiana University Pre-College Viola da Gamba Program is part of the Pre-College Early Music Program. Victor Penniman gives viola da gamba lessons to elementary and high school students. This new program was added in 1997.
Students have the opportunity to perform in a class recital at the end of each term. These recitals are held in Ford Hall in the Bess Meshulam Simon Music Library and Recital Center Building at the corner of 3rd Street and Jordan Avenue in Bloomington. |
| J.P. Gheerardyn, Viola da Gamba |
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| Viola da Gamba - Helge Marsel |
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| Peter Wendland, Viola da gamba, new site 2003 |
Peter Wendland, based in London, performs regularly as a soloist, specializing in the repertoire for unaccompanied solo viola da gamba, and is a member of various ensembles in the UK and Germany, including the Rose Consort of Viols. He has made numerous recordings for radio and television, and is also active as a teacher and lecturer. CDs include Bach’s Art of the Fugue with the Kölner Violen Consort, the first recording of the twelve sonatas for violin, viola da gamba and basso continuo by Johann Philipp Krieger (1649-1725) with the Baroque violinist Mihoko Kimura, and a recording of contemporary music by the American cult composer, "Moondog". Recordings with The Rose Consort of Viols on Naxos include "Elizabethan Songs and Consort Music" with Catherine King, Mezzo-soprano. |
| Merion David Attwood -Instrument Maker- Viola da Gamba,Violins ... |
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| VdGS/GNY |
The Viola da Gamba Society of Greater New York (VdGS/GNY) is a nonprofit organization formed for the purpose of promoting activities related to and disseminating information about the viola da gamba and related early instruments.
Our community of members includes amateur and professional players of the viola da gamba, instrument makers, musicologists, composers, and others with an interest in the instrument and its repertoire. Among the activities that we currently sponsor and resources that we provide are |
| http://mitglied.lycos.de/Braumann |
Susanne Braumann, player. |
| Jerome Soliles, vocals and viola da gamba player |
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| Timorthy G. Johnson, Luthier |
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| Musikinstrumentenmuseum der Universität Leipizg |
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| Bernd Kuerschner strings for musical instruments |
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| Welcome To HilleNet... |
Hille Perl |
| Kazuo Imai: Profile |
Guitar, viola da gamba (replica) and electronics
Born in Kawasaki, Kanagawa prefecture, September 24, 1955
Kazuo Imai creates unique and powerful free improvised music, combining his excellent technique with the passion of free jazz, and the textures of ethnic and avant-garde classical genres. His principal instrument is the guitar--both acoustic and electric--and he uses various techniques to play it: fingering; picking; hitting and scratching the strings with a pick, or one or both hands; bowing; placing sticks under the strings; and using effectors. In addition to guitar, Imai plays the viola da gamba (replica) and live electronics in his performances. He succeeds in conveying his musical world to his listeners with remarkably high degrees of abstraction, density and tension.
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| Lyra Viol's Alive! |
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| Paulo Gomes Luthier Workshop |
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| Dominik Zuchowicz Stringed Instruments |
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| Merion David Attwood - Musical Instrument Maker |
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| Renate Fink, Viola da Gambas - Bows |
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| Startseite United Continuo Service |
Der United Continuo Service, gegründet 1995 von dem Gambisten Jörg Meder, ist eine Formation von Musikern aus Deutschland und dem benachbarten Ausland mit Spezialisierung auf Basso-Continuo-Instrumente. Das Ensemble UCS arbeitet mit Sängern, Tänzern, Schauspielern sowie mit weiteren Instrumentalisten zusammen.
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| The Spirit of Gambo |
Dutch ensemble with gambas (Freek Borstlap) |
| ShaunNg.com - The Official Website of Shaun Ng |
Gamba player, nice site! |
| LA GAMBA Freiburg HomePage |
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| Fretwork |
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| Ensemble Soleil Early MusicWebsite |
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| Concordia Viol Consort: Welcome |
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| Miriam Morris - Viola da Gamba |
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| Gruenert - Instrumente: Viola da Gamba |
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| Duet Luca Pianca - Vittorio Ghielmi - Gamba |
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| http://www.accent-records.be/WKUIJKEN.HTML |
Wieland Kuijken, the master |
| Petr Wagner - Viola da gamba & Ensemble Tourb... |
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| Johan Hedvall - Luthier |
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| Marais Consort Gambenconsort |
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| AquilaUsa Home Page |
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| Historical instruments by Daniel Larson |
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| Historical treatises |
Historical treatises on viola da gamba
The following article is adapted from an early chapter of my M.Mus thesis on pedagogy of the viola da gamba. It examines the main historical treatises, in order to place them in time and to give a context for the chapters which follow. Where known, some brief biographical material has been included to give a picture of the author and his ideas. Other material, such as Marais' or De Machy's prefatory material, or any letters is not reviewed here.
A question which may appear flippant could read "When is a viol tutor not a viol tutor?" The answer is serious: when it's a lute tutor. The viol's origins in the vihuela and lute had a profound influence on its technique in each period of its development, though sometimes in different ways. The indications to be found in various treatises - Judenkünig (1523), Robinson (1603) and Mace (1676) - all suggest that the left hand technique of the two instruments was identical. This article only covers those pedagogical works which principally concern the viol.
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| Dr. Ted Conner |
Dr. Conner is a professional Jazz guitarist and viola da gamba player. His jazz group, The Ted Conner Quartet--guitar, bass, drums, alto sax--performs regularly with recent concerts at The Touchstone Theatre and Muhlenberg College. Dr. Conner also performs on viola da gamba with several early music groups including the Wincoma Consort and the Muhlenberg Collegium Musicu |