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Series Page 4 Title Page 6 Copyright 7 Contents 8 List of Illustrations 9 List of Music Examples 11 List of Abbreviations 13 Note to the Reader 18 Preface 20 Introduction: Origins and Contexts 24 Plates 34 1 ‘Musitians on the Viol de Gamba’: Professional Players in Restoration England 50 2 ‘The Noble Base Viol’: Amateur Players around 1700 88 3 ‘Per la Viola da Gamba’: Immigrants in Early Eighteenth-Century London 133 4 ‘Awake my Cetra, Harp and Lute’: John Frederick Hintz and the Cult of Exotic Instruments 174 5 ‘A Solo on the Viola da Gamba’: Charles Frederick Abel as a Performer 208 6 ‘Composed to the Soul’: Abel’s Viola da Gamba Music 239 7 ‘The Heart of Sensibility’: Writers, Artists and Aristocrats 272 8 ‘The Art of Playing it has never Died Out in this Country’: Abel’s Competitors, Followers and Successors 305 9 ‘Performed upon the Original Instruments for which it was Written’: the Viola da Gamba and the Early Music Revival 341 Bibliography 376 Index 414

Author

Holman, Peter

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