Catalogue of Solo and Chamber Music for Viola da Gamba

N-Tu XA HA Mus 1:1 (partbook of viol I only, viol II missing; in tablature)
N-Tu XA HA Mus 1:2 (partbooks Primo and Secondo; in tablature)

The ms. 1:1 bears the title N° 1 | Nodebog til Viola da Gamba. The two partbooks of ms. 1:2 bear the titles N° 1 | Primo Autor | Johan Schench | A° 1716 d[en] 28. Septemb[er] and N° 1 | Secundo. Autor | Johan Scench | A° 1716 d[en] 28. Septemb[er].

In both ms. these 9 movements are interspersed with others published in Nymphe di Rheno . The ms. 1:1 contains moreover pieces by August Kühnel, published in his Sonate ô partite.

The manuscripts are written in tablature.

The hypothesis that these were copies from Schenck's Giardino Armonico, formulated when that work was lost, has been disproved by its discovery.

ID 170000129

Thematic index: Goy, «Chelys», pp. 71-72

Non-thematic index of the entire manuscripts

Hampus Huldt-Nystrøm, Viola gamba-spill i Norge omkring år 1700: to tabulaturmanuskript for viola da gamba i Hammers samling, DKNVS bibliotek, Trondheim, Tanke og tone til Knut Tedt, Oslo, 1976, pp. 123-137.

François-Pierre Goy, Introduction to Johann Schenck, Two Sonatas for Two Bass Viols, Albany, PRB Productions, 1994

François-Pierre Goy, The Norwegian Viol Tablatures, «Chelys» 23 (1994), pp. 55-72