Bettina Hoffmann

Catalogue of Solo and Chamber Music for Viola da Gamba

author

Ziani, Marc’Antonio

1653 ca.-1715

work information

Caio Popilio. Trattimento Musicale Nel felicissimo Di Natalizio delle Sae. Caes. Real Maestà di Leopoldo I
Items with viola da gamba:
aria "Soffri, deh soffri" for alto (Valeria), viol and basso continuo
duetto "Cari, cari Lumi" for alto (Valeria), tenor (Popilio), viol and basso continuo
aria "Sono poche due pupille" for tenor (Popilio), 2 viols and basso continuo
coro "O Virtù bella e rara" for choir, 2 viols and orchestra (2 oboes, strings and basso continuo)

manuscript

place (and editor)

Wien

date

1704

scoring

voxA + vb or vt + bc, voxA + voxT + vb or vt + bc, voxT + 2 vb or 2 vt + bc, voxCh + 2 vb or 2 vt + str + bc

where

source

A-Wn mus. Hs 18850

online copy

http://data.onb.ac.at/rep/10043781

modern edition(s)

Strümper, Viennese music with viols: «Soffri, deh soffri», duetto «Cari Lumi», aria «Sono poche due pupille», coro «O Virtù bella e rara»

further information

notes

The overall range (d-e’’) and some chords of all the parts as a whole composed by Marc’Antonio Ziani for viola da gamba suggest that he had an alto-tenor viol in mind, even if their execution is not impossible on a bass viol.

bibliography

Marc Strümper, Die Viola da gamba am Wiener Kaiserhof, Tutzing, Schneider, 2004

, pp. 149-150

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