Chapters in this book

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