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Music for Viola Bastarda

by Jason Paras

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A Transcribed Anthology of Viola Bastarda Repertory

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A Transcribed Anthology of Viola Bastarda Repertory

Jason Paras’s collection documents the viola bastarda as both an instrument and a sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century performance practice for solo viola da gamba. In this approach, material from a polyphonic work is recast as one wide-ranging melodic line that draws on the original voices. The volume traces the development of the practice and gathers 46 transcribed pieces, placing the repertory alongside the historical question of how performers improvised and ornamented it. It offers practical musical material while foregrounding a mannerist tradition whose performance details are only partly preserved in period manuals.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Viola da gamba players exploring historical repertory
  • Performers interested in Renaissance and early Baroque improvisation practices
  • Students of early music and musical mannerism

Themes

Viola bastardaSolo viola da gambaRenaissance and early Baroque musicPolyphonic transformationHistorical improvisation

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Book overview

The term "viola bastarda" refers to both an instrument and a style of playing that is one of the crowning achievements of musical mannerism. The Italian repertory for the solo viola da gamba in the 16th and early 17th centuries was largely music played "alla bastarda," an art of performance in which a polyphonic composition is transformed into a single melodic line derived from the original parts and spanning their ranges.

Jason Paras has traced the development of the "viola bastarda" and has assembled and transcribed 46 peices in this genre. The music in his collection is a rich and fascinating repertory that is rarely heard today. This anthology is an invitation to present-day players to recreate the improvisation practice of the 16th and 17th centuries in ways not fully disclosed by ornamentation manuals of that time.

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