Lectures and writings
Lectures, conferences, books, articles, dissertations and other contributions to the research on viola da gamba
Video lectures and conferences
Vittorio Ghielmi and his Viola da Gamba Class, “TIC TAC” with the bow in the air. A historical and practical tutor for the Viola da Gamba bow technique, Mozarteum University Salzburg
Bettina Hoffmann, La realizzazione del basso continuo alla viola da gamba: capriccio o prassi comune?, Conservatorio di Vicenza
Bettina Hoffmann, La realizzazione del basso continuo alla viola da gamba: consigli pratici dalle fonti, Conservatorio di Vicenza
Bettina Hoffmann, Size does matter. On the origins of the viol, Viola da Gamba Society of Great Britain
Writings by Violanet professors and students
Vittorio Ghielmi, An Eighteenth-Century Italian Treatise and Other Clues to the History of the Viola da Gamba in Italy, in: The Italian Viola da Gamba. Proceedings of the International Symposium on the Italian Viola da Gamba, edited by Susan Orlando, Turin, Manzoni, 2002, pp. 73-85.
Bettina Hoffmann, Viol Music in the Palazzo Ruffo or How the Viol came to Sicily, «The Viola da Gamba Society Journal», vol. 12, 2018, pp. 1-15
Bettina Hoffmann, Accordature delle viole da gamba nell’Italia del Cinquecento: dal concerto alto al concerto basso, «Recercare», 2004, vol. XVI, pp. 23-67.
Bettina Hoffmann, The Nomenclature of the Viol in Italy, «The Viola da Gamba Society Journal» vol. 2, 2008, pp. 1-16
Bettina Hoffmann, Il repertorio italiano della viola da gamba dopo il 1640: delimitazione e censimento, «Rivista Italiana di Musicologia» 47, 2012, pp. 83-123.
Bettina Hoffmann, ‘Einige praetendiren gar einen General-Bass darauff zu wege zu bringen’ – Die Gambe als akkordisches Generalbassinstrument, in: Repertoire, Instrumente und Bauweise der Viola da gamba: XXXVIII. Wissenschaftliche Arbeitstagung, Michaelstein, 19. bis 21. November 2010, edited by Christian Philipsen, Augsburg, Wissner-Verlag, 2016, pp. 251-279.
Violanet student’s dissertations
Luke Challinor, What factors should be considered when choosing a stringing for historical French viols for repertoire circa 1670-1740? How does this shape our performance and execution of this music today? Extract of a Bachelor Thesis, Royal College of Music. Experimentally proved during the Violanet Programme at the Mozarteum University, 2019-2021.
Nicholas Kleinman, Extant cadenzas for viola da gamba and baryton, in preparation. Musical examples already available here.
Laura Secco, The traditional cosmology in the representation of the musical instrument, Masterarbeit, Universität Mozarteum Salzburg, 2016
Christoph Urbanetz, Die Bearbeitungen von Johann Gottlieb Grauns Werken für Viola da Gamba durch Ludwig Christian Hesse, dissertation, Mozarteum Salzburg, 2015.
Essentials on paper: Books dedicated entirely to the viola da gamba
Boer, Johannes and van Oorschot, Guido (editors), A Viola da Gamba Miscellany. Proceedings of the International Viola da Gamba Symposium, Utrecht 1991, Utrecht, STIMU, 1994.
Bol, Hans, La basse de viole du temps de Marin Marais et d’Antoine Forqueray, Bilthoven, A. B. Creyghton, 1973.
Coin, Christophe and Orlando, Susan (editors), A Viola da Gamba Miscellanea, Collection Ensemble Baroque de Limoges, Pulim, Limoges, 2005.
Flassig, Fred, Die solistische Gambenmusik in Deutschland im 18. Jahrhundert, Göttingen, Cuvillier Verlag, 1998.
Fleming, Michael and Bryan, John, Early English Viols: Instruments, Makers and Music, London, Routledge, 2017.
Hoffmann, Bettina, Catalogo della musica solistica e cameristica per viola da gamba, Lucca, LIM, 2001.
Hoffmann, Bettina, The viola da gamba, Routledge, 2018 (edizione italiana: L’Epos, 2010; deutsche Ausgabe: Ortus Verlag, 2014).
Holman, Peter, Life after Death: the Viola da Gamba in Britain from Purcell to Dolmetsch, Woodbridge, Boydell Press, 2010.
König, Adolf Heinrich, Die Viola da gamba, Frankfurt a. M., Bochinsky, 1985.
O’ Loghlin, Michael, Frederick the Great and his Musicians. The Viola da Gamba Music of the Berlin School, Aldershot, Ashgate, 2008.
Orlando, Susan (editor), The Italian Viola da Gamba. Proceedings of the International Symposium on the Italian Viola da Gamba, Turin, Manzoni, 2002.
Otterstedt, Annette, Die Englische Lyra-Viol. Instrument und Technik, Kassel, Bärenreiter, 1989.
Otterstedt, Annette, The Viol. History of an Instrument, Kassel, Bärenreiter, 2002.
Philipsen, Christian (editor), Repertoire, Instrumente und Bauweise der Viola da gamba: XXXVIII. Wissenschaftliche Arbeitstagung, Michaelstein, 19. bis 21. November 2010, Augsburg, Wissner-Verlag, 2016.
Pio, Stefano, Viol & lute makers: Venice 1490-1630, Venice, Venice Research, 2011.
Strümper, Marc, Die Viola da gamba am österreichischen Kaiserhof, Tutzing, Schneider, 2004.
Woodfield, Ian, The Early History of the Viol, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1984.
More bibliography
Taco Stronks, A Viola da Gamba Bibliography, in A Viola da Gamba Miscellany. Proceedings of the International Viola da Gamba Symposium, Utrecht 1991, edited by Johannes Boer and Guido van Oorschot, Utrecht, STIMU, 1994, pp. 141-162.
John B. Rutledge, Megaviol. A bibliography of the viols (a list of publications about the viol issued before 1997)