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Chapter 4 ‘Awake my Cetra, Harp and Lute’: John Frederick Hintz and the Cult of Exotic Instruments
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Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents vii
- List of Illustrations viii
- List of Music Examples x
- List of Abbreviations xii
- Note to the Reader xvii
- Preface xix
- Introduction: Origins and Contexts 1
- Chapter 1 ‘Musitians on the Viol de Gamba’: Professional Players in Restoration England 11
- Chapter 2 ‘The Noble Base Viol’: Amateur Players around 1700 49
- Chapter 3 ‘Per la Viola da Gamba’: Immigrants in Early Eighteenth-Century London 94
- Chapter 4 ‘Awake my Cetra, Harp and Lute’: John Frederick Hintz and the Cult of Exotic Instruments 135
- Chapter 5 ‘A Solo on the Viola da Gamba’: Charles Frederick Abel as a Performer 169
- Chapter 6 ‘Composed to the Soul’: Abel’s Viola da Gamba Music 200
- Chapter 7 ‘The Heart of Sensibility’: Writers, Artists and Aristocrats 233
- Chapter 8 ‘The Art of Playing it has never Died Out in this Country’: Abel’s Competitors, Followers and Successors 266
- Chapter 9 ‘Performed upon the Original Instruments for which it was Written’: the Viola da Gamba and the Early Music Revival 302
- Bibliography 337
- Index 375
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents vii
- List of Illustrations viii
- List of Music Examples x
- List of Abbreviations xii
- Note to the Reader xvii
- Preface xix
- Introduction: Origins and Contexts 1
- Chapter 1 ‘Musitians on the Viol de Gamba’: Professional Players in Restoration England 11
- Chapter 2 ‘The Noble Base Viol’: Amateur Players around 1700 49
- Chapter 3 ‘Per la Viola da Gamba’: Immigrants in Early Eighteenth-Century London 94
- Chapter 4 ‘Awake my Cetra, Harp and Lute’: John Frederick Hintz and the Cult of Exotic Instruments 135
- Chapter 5 ‘A Solo on the Viola da Gamba’: Charles Frederick Abel as a Performer 169
- Chapter 6 ‘Composed to the Soul’: Abel’s Viola da Gamba Music 200
- Chapter 7 ‘The Heart of Sensibility’: Writers, Artists and Aristocrats 233
- Chapter 8 ‘The Art of Playing it has never Died Out in this Country’: Abel’s Competitors, Followers and Successors 266
- Chapter 9 ‘Performed upon the Original Instruments for which it was Written’: the Viola da Gamba and the Early Music Revival 302
- Bibliography 337
- Index 375