Viols and other historic bowed string instruments

Murray Campbell; Patsy Campbell

doi:10.1007/978-1-4419-7110-4

Viols and other historic bowed string instruments

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This chapter begins with a short survey of the musical and acoustical properties of some of the more important medieval bowed string instruments. The nature of the viols that were made and played in the late fifteenth and sixteenth centuries is then described, and the evolution that led to the instruments written for by Baroque composers such as Couperin, Handel and Bach is charted. Results of recent scientific investigations of these instruments are presented and discussed.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The Science of String Instruments
Editors	Thomas D. Rossing
Place of Publication	New York
Publisher	Springer
Pages	301-315
Number of pages	15
Edition	1st
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-4419-7110-4
ISBN (Print)	978-1-4419-7109-8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-7110-4
Publication status	Published - 2010

Keywords / Materials (for Non-textual outputs)

Acoustics
String instruments
viol

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10.1007/978-1-4419-7110-4

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