This is a compact, composite and authoritative survey of the history and development of the cello from its origins to the present day. Its carefully structured series of thirteen essays deals with the history and construction of the cello and bow, discusses the careers of the most distinguished cellists through history, surveys the repertory of the instrument in unprecedented detail and reviews teaching methods, technical developments and issues of performance practice. It is the most comprehensive book ever to be published about the instrument.
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This is a compact, composite and authoritative survey of the history and development of the cello from its origins to the present day. Its carefully structured series of thirteen essays deals with the history and construction of the cello and bow, discusses the careers of the most distinguished cellists through history, surveys the repertory of the instrument in unprecedented detail and reviews teaching methods, technical developments and issues of performance practice. It is the most comprehensive book ever to be published about the instrument.
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This review is from: The Cambridge Companion to the Cello (Cambridge Companions to Music) (Paperback)
This book is not an instruction on how to practice the cello but gives an historical perspective about how the cello was developed back in Europe to today's modern cello. It does however discuss the physics of playing easier and with less stress. It is for those who want to know everything about the violoncello not just playing it. It is informative and very interesting. So if you love the cello and want to know just about everything about it, get this book.
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An interesting overview of the cello, from history to instrument description and acoustics. If your main interest is history, though, this is not a great choice. I was disappointed with the chapters 4 - 6 by Margaret Campbell - overview of virtuosi from past centuries, the writing was very boring. The rest of the book is fun, though.
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the making of a cello,
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I bought this book to give to a friend for Christmas. He had just dusted off his Cello after 20+ years and needed some refresher info. Unfortunately, this was not the book for him. This is a book of esays about the history of and how to make a cello. It gives great detail in that aspect. There isn't really any included music or actual methods.
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Although it is the noblest and most profound in tone of the violin family, the cello is probably the youngest member and certainly the most recently perfected in form and proportion. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
cello teaching, cello repertory, cello making, cello literature, central slow movement, cello technique, solo cellist, cello studies, continuo sonatas, principal cellist, slurred staccato, cello school, first cellist, solo cadenza, cello playing, bowed stringed instruments, sul ponticello, cello concerto, bow makers, two concertos, great cellists, cello bow, violin family, moto perpetuo, solo cello Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Paris Conservatoire, Jean-Louis Duport, Double Concerto, Second Concerto, Friedrich Wilhelm, Second Sonata, Nicolo Amati, Royal Academy of Music, Siegfried Palm, Chapel Royal, First Concerto, Jean-Pierre Duport, New York, Second World War, Anton Kraft, Herbert Walenn, Jonathan Harvey, Royal College of Music, Alfredo Piatti, Bernhard Romberg, Concert Spirituel, Ecole Normale, Joan Dickson, Pablo Casals, Paul Sacher New!
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Although it is the noblest and most profound in tone of the violin family, the cello is probably the youngest member and certainly the most recently perfected in form and proportion. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
cello teaching, cello repertory, cello making, cello literature, central slow movement, cello technique, solo cellist, cello studies, continuo sonatas, principal cellist, slurred staccato, cello school, first cellist, solo cadenza, cello playing, bowed stringed instruments, sul ponticello, cello concerto, bow makers, two concertos, great cellists, cello bow, violin family, moto perpetuo, solo cello Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Paris Conservatoire, Jean-Louis Duport, Double Concerto, Second Concerto, Friedrich Wilhelm, Second Sonata, Nicolo Amati, Royal Academy of Music, Siegfried Palm, Chapel Royal, First Concerto, Jean-Pierre Duport, New York, Second World War, Anton Kraft, Herbert Walenn, Jonathan Harvey, Royal College of Music, Alfredo Piatti, Bernhard Romberg, Concert Spirituel, Ecole Normale, Joan Dickson, Pablo Casals, Paul Sacher New!
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- Dictionary Of Music And Musicians (9 Volumes)) (Music Book Index) by Sir George Grove on 5 pages
- New Grove Dictionary by Sadie on 5 pages
- History of the Violoncello by Lev Ginsburg on 4 pages
- Concerto in E Minor, Op. 85: Study Score by Edward William Elgar on 4 pages
- The Cambridge Companion to the Violin (Cambridge Companions to Music) by Robin Stowell on 4 pages
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- The Cambridge Companion to the String Quartet (Cambridge Companions to Music) by Robin Stowell in Front Matter, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Cambridge Companion to the Concerto (Cambridge Companions to Music) by Simon P. Keefe in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Beethoven: The Music and the Life by Lewis Lockwood in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Beethoven: The Music and the Life by Lewis Lockwood in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Cambridge Companion to the Lied (Cambridge Companions to Music) by James Parsons in Front Matter
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