Format:
1 online resource (336 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9783631826287
Series Statement:
Ars Musica. Interdisziplinaere Studien Series v.7
Content:
This book is the first integral study of the imitative art that has led to the creation of cello transcriptions and arrangements. It has an interdisciplinary character and covers issues related to philosophy, history of aesthetics and the art of cello making, as well as the fine arts, including iconography.
Content:
Cover -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Mimesis 1 - general issues -- 1.1. Mimesis and the art of music -- 1.2. Periodisation of the evolution of mimetic cello performance -- Chapter 2: The Renaissance and the Baroque: the first evidence of the cello, the instrument's design and the earliest mimetic cello repertoire -- terminology, iconography -- 2.1. Mimesis and Renaissance instruments -- 2.2. Renaissance instruments and the design of the cello -- 2.4. Italian masters of the cello -- 2.5. Cello making schools, cello makers and extant instruments -- 2.5.1. The beginnings of cello making -- 2.5.2. The art of cello making in Cremona -- 2.5.3. Other cello making centres in Italy -- 2.5.4. The cello in the Commonwealth of Poland-Lithuania and in Royal Prussia: hypotheses and views -- 2.5.5. The design of a Baroque cello and bow -- 2.6. Cello terminology in documents and treatises -- 2.6.1. Cello nomenclature in Europe -- 2.6.2. Cello nomenclature in Poland -- 2.7. The depiction of the cello in European art of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries -- 2.7.1. Iconography as a source of knowledge about the cello -- 2.7.2. The cello in Italian painting -- 2.7.3. Representations of the cello in Flemish art -- 2.7.4. Paintings depicting the cello in Dutch art 204 -- 2.7.5. The earliest traces of the cello in other European countries -- 2.7.6. Summary -- 2.7.7. Drawing, painting and sculpture with the cello and hybrid instruments in Poland -- 2.7.8. Sacred painting and sculpture depicting a cello -- Chapter 3: The late Baroque, cello transcriptions and arrangements after 1687 -- 3.1. The cello as an alternative instrument -- 3.1.1. General issues -- 3.1.2. The cello and the viola da gamba -- 3.1.3. Artistic transcription, self-transcription and polyversions for solo cello -- 3.2. Cellists active in Europe from 1688 to 1750.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783631806142
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9783631806142
Language:
English
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